reframe, whose aim is to advance gender equity. keri putnam is a film executive and producer and the founder of putnam pictures. she served for 11 years as the ceo of the sundance institute, which runs the sundance film festival. prior to that, she worked as a senior executive at miramax and hbo. she is also the co founder of reframe. welcome. thank you, it s great to be here. stephanie allain is a film producer and writer and the newly elected co president of the producers guild of america the first woman of colour to hold the position. stephanie served nine years as vice president in women in film. she runs her own company, homegrown pictures, which focuses on creating content by and about women and people of colour. keri and stephanie, welcome to you both. happy to be here. now, keri, you were set on a career in theatre, but there was a plot twist when hollywood came calling. tell us about what happened. well, that was a very early plot twist in my career. i was coming o
and led by women in film and the sundance institute called reframe, whose aim is to advance gender equity. keri putnam is a film executive and producer and the founder of putnam pictures. she served for 11 years as the ceo of the sundance institute, which runs the sundance film festival. prior to that, she worked as a senior executive at miramax and hbo. she is also the co founder of reframe. welcome. thank you, it s great to be here. stephanie allain is a film producer and writer and the newly elected co president of the producers guild of america the first woman of colour to hold the position. stephanie served nine years as vice president in women in film. she runs her own company, homegrown pictures, which focuses on creating content by and about women and people of colour. keri and stephanie, welcome to you both. happy to be here. now, keri, you were set on a career in theatre, but there was a plot twist when hollywood came calling. tell us about what happened. well, th
tell us about what happened. well, that was a very early plot twist in my career. i was coming out of college and i was going to go work at a theatre, and i had a a friend who was working at hbo, which at that time was a very start up network, a long time ago pretty start up network and she said, well, you are going to go work in the theatre but there is some guy coming who s going to be making plays for television on hbo. you could maybe be his assistant, and so, i got that job as a secretary at the very bottom, starting out a long time ago. they don t say secretary any more. they did back then! they did back then i had to take a typing test! did you?! and then i was very lucky to be hitting a company like that at the time where my rate of growth and knowledge, really, the company was growing at the same pace, so i was able to move up there and just learn so much about making film and telling stories, still working with a lot of playwrights and still being so clos
the southern tip of africa. appliance company electrolux is also setting up a taskforce to find alternate routes, while ikea is warning of potential product shortages. ryan petersen from the supply chain management company flexport told me more about how the disruption is already impacting businesses. it s just getting started. over the weekend and through today we have had all ten of the top container shipping lines in the world, representing about 95% capacity, have begun to divert vessels to avoid sailing through the red sea and to go around the tip of africa, as you said. it takes about 25% longer to go that way from asia to europe and, well, 25% reduction in supply of shipping, we re going to see huge delays, obviously, but also big price increases because, well, it s a supply and demand and if the supply comes down 25%, one thing we have learned in the last few years is a small destruction and supply can lead to a huge swing in price. are small disruption in supply c
chris christie says that he can announce the coming days in mike pence is launching a super pac. all eyes are on ron desantis. the florida governor is especially to officially get into the race next week. and he is giving his biggest tease yet. we just completed what i would say is the boldest and most far-reaching agenda that would see in the modern history of a republican party. if you look at what we been able to accomplish their summing in there for anybody. in terms of the issues that we tackle and at the end of the day where country needs to be about. is this idea that it really matter where you start from just that people have an opportunity do big things in this country and that has been true historically when he to make sure that it s true again. speeforty also reportedly telling donors that he is only republican who can beat present joe biden. right now in the polls were present donald trump is the front runner by a big margin. while the republican race is buzzing