Producer

Ryan Murphy, one of the most prolific producers, writers and directors in Hollywood reflects on the dominant industry culture that was the standard prior to 2017. “When I started in the late ‘90s, Hollywood was run by straight white men over the age of 50 who really only wanted to work with people who were like them.

“I was constantly asking white, male, Hollywood for permission to make Yellow Rose, and getting, ‘no’. ” Director, Writer, Producer, Diane Paragas, falls into one of the smallest subsets of a subset – a woman of Asian descent directing a movie.

At the mention of Joe Pasternak, only the most hardcore cinephiles will probably recognize the name as one the most prolific producers of Hollywood’s Golden Age, with 105 films to his credit, in a 40-year long career that started in 1929. So, it is a treat to discover “Easy the Hard Way”, his breezy autobiography published in 1956, when he was still very active before retiring from the movie business 12 years later.

Rule Breaker, Yale graduate, feminist. Academy Award-winner.

“It has been more than sixty years since I came to Hollywood, first to learn how to make films and then to make them myself. I have now made thirty-five of them, some better than others, some prizewinners, other money losers.

Yellow, Black and White is one of Russia’s leading entertainment groups. Renowned in the country for both film and TV, YBW is the studio behind Gold Diggers, the hit TV series that’s already been seen by 25 million Russians.

Mrs. America tells the story of the fight to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in the early ‘70s.

Robert Evans, who died last October, enjoyed a period of creativity that no studio head has ever been able to match. It lasted only five years but in those years not even legendary producers like Sam Goldwyn or David O.

Sharon Horgan is a busy woman. She is a mother, a producer, a writer, and an actress and she is the head of her own production company Merman, which she started with Celia Mountford.

“Women head up 69% of key departments on the show,” says Workin' Moms' multi-hyphenate  Catherine Reitman, who conceptualized the idea of a series dealing with realistic, flawed women, struggling with the real issues that undo 51% of the population and make women feel alone and unworthy. She executes this task with humor and honesty.