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Netflix To Spend $5 Million From Creative Equity Fund To Uplift Women In Entertainment Industry, Per Bela Bajaria Post
The Industry Mar 05, 2021
Bela Bajaria | Netflix
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In advance of International Women’s Day on March 8, Netflix Head of Global TV Bela Bajaria announced that the first $5 million of a recently announced Creative Equity Fund will go towards programs that help to nurture, develop and uplift women in the entertainment industry globally.
The fund dedicates $20 million annually over the next five years to setting underrepresented communities up for success in the TV and film industries, as well as bespoke Netflix programs that will help us to identify, train and provide job placement for up-and-coming talent globally.
In conjunction with the announcement of the fund and to celebrate International Women’s Day, Netflix also: launched a video narrated by Janet Mock honoring groundbreaking women in entertainment throughout history; curated a special collection of stories by, for and about women available in the International Women’s Day collection at Netflix.com/Internationalwomensday
Here is the blog post written by Bajaria:
Investing in the Next Generation of Female Storytellers
As an Indian woman growing up in the US, I didn’t see anyone on screen that looked like me until Parminder Nagra joined ER in 2003. But when I started reading scripts as a young TV executive, I didn’t […]
