During a free-wheeling conversation held at the Aster Hotel and club in Hollywood, veteran producers and writers Zoanne Clack and Gloria Calderón Kellett regaled a room full of guests with their stories about how they broke into the entertainment industry with the help of others who served as their mentors.
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Thursday, August 3, 2023 - 12:00am
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 12:00am to Friday, July 28, 2023 - 12:00am
What happens when you bring Hollywood to a Washington, D.C. think tank? The Statecraft Stories workshop, held virtually across the last week of July, invited Quincy Institute researchers, policy analysts, CNN contributors, journalists, authors, veterans, and a former CIA staffer to put aside their jobs promoting diplomacy to participate in interactive sessions designed to provide powerful narrative storytelling tools in communicating important messages.
Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 12:00am
It’s no secret that plastic is bad for the environment, but the inextricable relationship between plastic and fossil fuels is often overlooked: 99% of the world’s plastic is made from refined fossil fuels, and plastic harms the planet at every stage of its eternal life cycle, beginning with air pollution and carbon emissions from the oil refineries that create plastic and ending with waste polluting the oceans and littering the Earth.
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - 12:00am
USC Annenberg's Hollywood, Health & Society made a splash with their recent mixer kickoff event titled Do the Write Thing, where creatives and community came together to celebrate voices that don’t get heard enough in Hollywood, specifically people of color and Indigenous groups.
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 - 12:00am
When it comes to American TV entertainment, death is overwhelmingly delivered in breathtaking fashion—shootings, stabbings, suffocation (includes drowning), suicide, beatings, poisonings and explosions.
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - 12:00am
USC’s School of Cinematic Arts presented a special screening of Extrapolations, the Apple TV+ series about climate change, that was followed by a Q&A with show creator Scott Z. Burns and executive producer and writer Dorothy Fortenberry.
Wednesday, January 25, 2023 - 12:00am
Hollywood showrunners, writers and producers were joined by a medical expert for a discussion about young women affected by early onset breast cancer, how the disease disproportionately affects women of color, and the importance of messaging to raise awareness about risk.