New study finds Latinx community disproportionately underrepresented in American film
Together, the Inclusion Initiative and the NALIP recommend more sensitive casting (even for secondary parts), constructing a pipeline for writers, directors, and producers, as well as investing more in resources for Latino artists. (Image Courtesy: TheWrap).
The University of Southern California Annenberg’s Inclusion Initiative, in partnership with the National Partnership of Latino Independent Producers, has found that only three percent of the leads in the top hundred grossing films from 2007 to 2018 are Latino, according to TheWrap. Even further, four-and-a-half percent of all speaking characters are Latino, despite the ethnic group being the largest in the United States, and these roles are commonly relegated to such stereotypes as poor, isolated criminals. Of greater than a thousand top-grossing movies from 2007 to 2018, only four percent of the American directors are Latino (one out of thirteen hundred is Latina), and just three percent of the producers are Latinx.
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