Ben Lopez has seen the future of the entertainment industry, and says it is the Latinx community. “In the next 20 years, we’re going to be prioritized — because not only will we have the numbers de…
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“They decided to incorporate a 501 and that was essentially the birth of NALIP,” says Lopez. “They moved to California not only to include other perspectives of the Latino experience but also to engage with the studios and the networks. In the beginning it was a lot of documentarians and independent filmmakers, then we added in television writers, producers and directors.”“NALIP achieved a lot of geographic representation in the following years, so pretty much every corner of the U.S.
He’s referring to the organization’s partnership with Columbia University’s Center for Ethnicity and Race on the Latino Media Gap, a seminal study released in 2014. Among its findings: Latino talent makes up only 2% of television programming and top films. At the same, Latinos purchase 25% of all movie tickets.
Behind the scenes, it was equally grim, according to the Latino Media Gap: Between 2010 and 2013, Latinos constituted 1.2% of producers, 4.1% of TV directors, 2.3% of movie directors and 1.9% of writers.But the stats that resonated with the powers that be in Hollywood related to economic growth of this demo, which was estimated at $1.6 trillion in 2014. “Those numbers got the attention of the decision-makers,” Lopez says.
Nancy Mejia, for example, could go on to become another agent of change in the industry. “She was an emerging talent who was unrepresented and not part of a guild,” says Lopez. “And in nine months, she went through our programs and into [the] writers’ room of ‘Vida.’ She directed an episode on the second season and now she’s writing for ‘The L-Word’ [on Showtime]. She’s also being looked at as the director for some major properties that are floating around out there.
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