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Diversity in Hollywood: The Time Is Now

Academy President on Diversity Push: "We Will Keep the Pedal to the Metal"

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences "trumpeted" the diversity of invitiation to join the voting Academy in 2016.

"Back in 2012, 30 percent of that year’s invitees were women and 10 percent were non-white. This year, 46 percent were women and 41 percent were people of color."

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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/24/arts/hollywood-diversity-inclusion.html

http://www.npr.org/2016/02/22/467621632/researchers-examine-hollywoods-lack-of-diversity

http://www.eonline.com/news/743110/7-oscar-winning-black-actors-get-honest-about-inequality-and-race-in-hollywood

http://graphics.latimes.com/oscars-2016-voters/

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A Beautiful Planet

May - 2016 / IMAX

http://abeautifulplanet.imax.com/

Video/Intro - https://youtu.be/edwZNH-ZKn4

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Leonardo takes an Oscar and speaks out...

"Making The Revenant was about man's relationship to the natural world, a world that we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history. Our production needed to move to the southern tip of this planet just to be able to find snow. Climate change is real. It is happening right now. It's the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.

"We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters or the big corporations, but who speak for all of humanity, for the indigenous people of the world, for the billions and billions of underprivileged people who will be most affected by this. For our children's children and for those people out there whose voices have been drowned out by the politics of greed, I thank you all for this amazing award tonight.

"Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted. Thank you so much."

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To the Memory of Ziggy... We're Stardust

http://cdn1.stopklatka.pl/dat/artykul/0000000178/0000178213/original.jpg

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Film/Media Reviews

In the movie industry the term "look-see" is used to describe a first look...

a glimpse of a project, a creator's idea, an initial concept, story, package, a pitch of a screenplay...

Our media reviews are quick look-sees, online intros, scoops and insights of projects worth your time and thought.

So pull up to your screen, log on, stream, download, rent it, buy it, go out to a movie, get virtual, take it to the next level... Act out!

-- www.mchannel.org

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Racing Extinction

Racing Extinction ○ #RacingExtinction @RacingXtinction

“I told the crew, 'We’re not making a movie – we’re starting a movement'. This film is one component of a movement that will go on and on...

and hopefully live in people’s hearts and minds and change behavior. We are the only generation that can save species for millions of years going forward...”

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Premiere of BigPicture Media

Time for New Media, our Spotlight reviews of important, award-worthy and -winning environmentally attuned films/movies/media

We visit the work of some of our planet's finest #planetcitizen media makers, creators and visionaries. We look at the BIG and the tiny -- and life in between and all around us

At GreenPolicy, we bring a dramatic 360° perspective

And a personal POV as "Planet Citizens"

Welcome to a Blue Planet adventure

~ from Clearwater, Florida

SJS - GreenPolicy Siterunner

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