"Female-driven action movies don't work." "Films about black people don't sell overseas." This is what many film-industry professionals, despite their varied personal preferences, long believed to be the hard truths informing what movies should get made. In 2005, speaker Franklin Leonard founded The Black List as a way to bring attention to Hollywood's favorite scripts when removed from the fog of this so-called wisdom. What happened next was amazing. Here, Franklin speaks about the limitations of Hollywood's evaluation of merit and what we lose as a society when we reduce representation in the kinds of stories being told. See https://blcklst.com/ for more.
