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Flip the Script: Representation in film
Day Thirty-seven
Representation in film
“Your only job as an artist is to put the truth out there into the world.” ~Viola Davis
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media was founded in 2004 by Academy Award Winning Actor Geena Davis. “The Institute provides research, direct guidance and thought leadership aimed at increasing representation of marginalized groups within six identities: gender, race/ethnicity, LGBTQIA+, disability, age, and body type.”
From their website: What’s the Issue?
The stories that we choose to tell in entertainment media send a specific message about who matters most in our culture. In order to bring about a global culture change, it is especially important that children see diverse, intersectional representations of characters in media to reflect the population of the world — which is half female and very diverse — and avoid unwittingly instilling unconscious bias in them. Doing good is also good for business! ~Geena Davis Institute
Flip the script, with any topic, is about looking at problems to discover new solutions. It is to question what is happening in the world and find ways to examine, reflect and create new structures of support. Awareness is the key to change. Bringing the unconscious to the conscious.
