The inaugural program will give six filmmakers from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to produce short films for the studio behind the $1.3 billion-grossing “Black Panther” and $1.1 billion-grossing “Captain Marvel.”
found that minority directors comprised only 12.6% of 2017’s top films despite representing 39.4% of the population.
The theme of this year’s program is “Discover.” Shorts must line up with the studio’s core brand values and can potentially be developed into future long-form or episodic Disney projects. “We see Launchpad essentially as a launchpad for a director to catapult into the studio system in a really organic way, which is by actually making something with us, in this case a short film, and going through the studio system to do it,” she added.
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