along with his brother. you re watching bbc news, now its time for women in hollywood: the producers a warm welcome, i am kim chakanetsa. i have come to hollywood to the women in film headquarters where i am joined by keri putnam and stephanie allain, two women who are working to reshape the industry. they are both part of an initiative founded and led by women in film and the sundance institute called reframe. the 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 and 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 presi
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which was nearly destroyed by fire four years ago. the restoration is expected to be finished on schedule. those are your headlines. you re watching bbc news. now it s women in hollywood: the producers. a warm welcome. i have come to hollywood to the women in film headquarters, where i m joined by keri putnam and stephanie allain, two women who are working to reshape the industry. they are both part of an initiative founded and led by women in film and the sundance institute called reframe. the aim is to advance gender equity. keri putnam is a film executive and producer and the founder of putnam pictures, she has 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 and is also the co founder. welcome. thank you, it s great to be here. stephanie allain is a film producer and writer and the newly elected copresident of the producers guild of america the first woman
is so valuable to our business. the idea of reframe was originally research based. seeing the research in the cold light of day and saying, nobody can deny that this is an equity problem, nobody can say this is an accident. we really felt instinctively, just by presenting that research to a wide array of people in studio jobs who are producers, agents, at senior levels, they would be shocked, because i think most people don t consider themselves biased, and yet the cumulative effect of their decisions was biased, and indeed that proved to be true. when we first started, the biggest obstacle to making change was a perception that there wasn t a problem. ah, yes. america is a patriarchal, racist society. it is. that is the world that we live in. just to say it out loud, oh my god, don t say it! but we have to say it because we have to know it,