NYWIFT Board President Simone Pero, was just announced as a Community Builder Honoree for the 2019 Cynopsis Top Women in Media Awards! The Awards honor outstanding contributions by women in every facet of the media industry. From mobile to marketing, social media to social good, and data to distribution, Cynopsis shines a light on the best of the best in TV, digital/tech, esports, sports and advertising. These are the women making bold decisions at every level, agents of change and champions of excellence who are instrumental in driving their businesses forward.

Congrats, Simone! See details.

Earlier this year, the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA released their 2019 Hollywood Diversity Report. Titled, “Old Story, New Beginning,” the report examined 12 different jobs among the creators, directors and top-billed cast of the top movies for 2017 as well as 1,316 broadcast television, cable and digital shows from the 2016 to 2017 programming season.

See the results.

Park Slope Moms is a dark-comedy set in an affluent, progressive neighborhood in Brooklyn. The project, written, created by, starring, directed by AND produced by NYWIFT members, is fiscally sponsored by NYWIFT and currently raising money for production and post-production of its proof of concept.

Support the project.

NYWIFT member and 2017 Muse Honoree Julie Dash has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her documentary film Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl, about the life and works of Vertamae Smart Grosvenor.

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New NYWIFT Executive Director Cynthia Lopez began on January 1st, 2019.

Read her greeting to the NYWIFT community.