*WHO: Loreen Arbus, President of the Loreen Arbus Foundation and Tari Hartman Squire, CEO of EIN SOF Communications, Producers of Lights! Camera! Access and Moderators.
Panelists:
Michael Berk and Douglas Schwartz, Baywatch’s creators and showrunners, Zach Anner, Story Editor, Speechless, Kaitlyn Yang, CEO, Alpha Studios, who was named Forbes’ 30 under 30 Hollywood, and Monika Mikkelsen, VP, Casting, Paramount Pictures and CJ Jones, Sign World Media, actor, Avatar and Baby Driver
The Caucus Members
Tanya Hart and Bob Papazian, The Caucus Co-Chairs, Chuck Fries, The Caucus Event Chair, Michael Berk, The Caucus Panel Chair, Deborah Leoni, The Caucus Excutive Director
WHEN: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
WHERE: The Television Academy
5220 Lankershim Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 91601
TIME: 6:00 PM Red Carpet Opens & Reception
7:00 PM Panel Begins
8:30 PM Event Ends
WHAT: Lights! Camera! Access! 2.0 panel is presented by The Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors in association with Emerson College. A discussion from
Behind the scenes experts on opportunities for talent with disabilities in television, film and streaming medias.
WHY: 20% of Americans have a disability, yet according to the Ruderman Family Foundation White Paper on Disability in Television, 95% of television characters with disabilities are portrayed by non-disabled actors. The Caucus of Producers, Writers and Directors and Lights! Camera! Access! 2.0 are presenting this event to raise disability awareness in the entertainment industry on how best to increase employment in front of and behind the camera and improve authentic portrayals.
For More information on The Caucus visit: https://www.caucus.org
For more information and to purchase tickets @ $20 visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lights-camera-access-20-disability-through-a-brand-new-lens-tickets-55427048795
About Loreen Arbus and Foundation
Loreen Arbus is the first woman in the United States to head up programming for a national network, a feat accomplished twice (both Showtime and Cable Health Network/Lifetime) and the author of six books. She possesses an extensive, multifaceted history in the entertainment industry — with a solid track record as an executive in network television, pay and basic cable, syndication and the print media; as a consultant to a pay-per-view network, several established and new cable networks; as a writer and as a producer.
She currently serves on over a dozen non-profit boards including: Women Moving Millions; Paley Center For Media; Women’s Media Center; The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation; Harvard Kennedy School of Government Women’s Leadership Board; Harvard School of Public Health; Harvard Medical School Advisory Committee for Neurobiology; Visionary Women; Town Hall Los Angeles; and Salome’ Chamber Orchestra.
Ms. Arbus has served as a two-term Governor for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She is a member of the Caucus for Producers, Writers and Directors, the Writers Guild, the Producers Guild, the Author’s Guild and SAG-AFTRA.
The Loreen Arbus Foundation supports a broad scope of charitable interests, including scientific and medical research; women and girls; people with disabilities and other minorities; gender and racial equity in media; the arts; animal rights; the environment and world peace.
About EIN SOF Communications
Tari Hartman Squire’s EIN SOF Communications is the leading strategic marketing and employment consultation firm specializing in disability-inclusive diversity in entertainment, corporate America and the disability community, promoting authentic media images, increased employment and the untapped $220 billion purchasing power of the disability market segment.
Together, The Loreen Arbus Foundation and EIN SOF have joined forces to create Lights! Camera! Access! 2.0 (LCA2.0) to increase employment of aspiring media professionals with disabilities, improve disability portrayals and enhance accessible entertainment with captions and audio descriptions. EIN SOF disability-specific focus groups for companies like AT&T, Apple, Bank of America, help hone advertising and marketing messages and strategic alliances. For Verizon Media, Getty Images and the National Disability Leadership Alliance (NDLA) EIN SOF focus groups resulted in The Disability Collection to capture more authentic disability portrayals in stock photos, resulting in disability-savvy guidelines for Getty’s 240,000 photographers worldwide. LCA2.0 and Daryl “Chill” Mitchell co-authored the Ruderman TV Challenge to increase performers with disabilities in last year’s pilots. Next LCA Summits occur in NY on April 3, 2019 in collaboration with ReelAbilities Film Festival; May 17, 2019 in Silicon Valley at the Computer History Museum; August 2019 in Chicago and back to Los Angeles in October 2019.
About The Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy & Innovation
The Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy & Innovation, housed at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University (LMU), pursues a unique four-pronged mission: convening thought leaders to pursue positive change on disability issues; leveraging technology to advance the lives of people with disabilities; creating a pipeline of lawyers with disabilities to populate the bench and hold elected office; and fostering a campus-wide dialogue on issues affecting people with disabilities. The Coelho Center also draws on multiple areas of expertise from other LMU colleges. Founded by former congressman, disability rights icon and LMU alumnus Hon. Tony Coelho (LMU ’64), The Coelho Center is the only organization of its kind at a Catholic university in America and the only one housed at a top U.S. law school. Details about The Coelho Center are available at www.lls.edu/coelhocenter.
About The Caucus for Producer, Writers & Directors
The Caucus is leading the evolution of television by providing a creative forum for
Writers and Directors to explore the issues of the ever-changing landscape of content and exhibition. The Caucus is proud of its rich history and esteemed membership of television innovators. For over 40 years, The Caucus has provided an opportunity for the best and the brightest talent to network and voice the ‘creative conscience’ of the Television Industry. Today, we continue to stand for better and meaningful content across all platforms. As Producers, Writers and Directors we support a working environment that fosters, through our various programs, the best content that we can create for our audiences.
In addition to its professional membership, The Caucus is proud of its non-profit work through The Caucus Foundation. Established in 2000 to help launch the careers of future entertainment professionals in film, television and emerging media; The Foundation provides completion grants to student thesis productions from accredited universities and colleges. To date The Caucus Foundation Grant Program has given over $1.8 million dollars in cash and in-kind awards.
Current members of The Caucus also include: Chuck Fries, JJ Abrams, Tom Hanks, Kevin Bright, James Burrows, Vin Di Bona, Dennis Doty, Jim Hirsh, Bob Papazian, ,Tanya Hart, Chas. Floyd Johnson, Norman Powell, Herman Rush and other leading producers, writers and directors. For additional information on The Caucus visit: www.caucus.org
https://www.facebook.com/caucus.org
source:
Edna Sims
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