The Writers Guild of America West is demanding that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expand its new best picture rules to include mandates against age discrimination. In an open lett…
to encourage equitable representation on and off screen in order to better reflect the diversity of the movie-going audience. Those included racial and ethnic groups, women, LGBTQ+ and people with cognitive or physical disabilities or who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Clinch asserted that the entertainment industry has been operating in violation of the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act: “Yet, this has become standard operational procedure in Hollywood. We are no longer willing to be silent co-dependents to the discriminatory practices in the entertainment industry. We demand inclusion and equity as our moral right. More important, we demand inclusion and equity as our legal right.
“Furthermore, when the industry references older writers, it is through the same language that has historically been used to defend racist hiring practices.
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