Diversity waits on a green light
THE WORLD OF FILM RESISTS CHANGE, MOSTLY because movies—even independent ones—take so long to conceive, plan and finance, let alone actually make. Plus, the majority of people who decide which movies get made and how are still white men, who are often slow to greenlight anything that might challenge them. No matter how you feel about either preserving the sovereignty of white dudes or shoving them aside, they’re here to stay, at least for one more year.
Yet 2017’s movies will seem radically different because we are radically different. Whether our worst fears will play out or not, plenty of us worry that we’re entering a period of cultural regression—and just when we thought things were getting good too. If early 2016 was dominated by the #OscarsSoWhite debate, by
