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The BAFTA awards have released their nominations for this year's ceremony. While winning two awards at the Golden Globes, Guillermo Del Toro’s “Shape of Water” has been nominated for ten categories at the BAFTA’s. Some of these nominations include Best Film, Best Film Director, & Best Original Screenplay. Lee Unkrich’s and Adrian Molinas “Coco” has also been nominated for Best Animated Film. You can see the full list of categories for these films below.   

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Former NALIP Media Summit and Latino Media Fest panelist speaker, Steven Canals's drama "Pose" has been picked up for a series order by FX.

A period piece set in the mid-’80s in New York City, “Pose” examines the juxtaposition of several segments of life and society in Manhattan: the emergence of the luxury Trump-era universe, the ball culture world, and downtown social and literary scene. Ryan Murphy co-created the drama with Brad Falchuk and Steven Canals, who will executive produce with Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall, Sherry Marsh, and Erica Kaye. Janet Mock and Our Lady J will serve as producers.

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In talking about representation in film, The Bechdel Test raises the question of women’s roles & portrayals: Does the movie have at least two named female characters? And do those characters have at least one conversation that is not about a man? Unfortunately, many films fail the test to address the inequalities in Hollywood films.

After reading over The Next Bechdel Test by FiveThirtyEight, NALIP asked past #WeAreInclusion feature Ligiah Villalobos her thought’s on creating a test focusing on Latinas in film.

“When I was asked to contribute to "The Next Bechdel Test" survey that FiveThirtyEight was working on, my conversation with them shifted more towards Latina characters in films and they decided to do a specific survey with the questions I suggested.  The results of my particular test/survey make it clear how little effort the film industry has made to even include Latina characters in their development process.  They must do better.  We must demand better.”

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Guillermo del Toro is taking a breath. It probably feels like his first in 12 months. It is a hot summer’s day on the Lido in Venice, and his latest film, The Shape of Water, is tonight’s film festival premiere. From the outside, this past year for the Mexican writer and director has looked pretty good. The animated kids series he produced, Trollhunters, has become an unbridled hit for Netflix; Season 2 is already on order. And few directors, even visionary ones like del Toro, get to claim sold-out exhibition runs at LACMA, yet del Toro’s “At Home With Monsters” has been doing gangbuster business all year. A curated selection of all the trinkets and artwork del Toro has collected over a lifetime dedicated to the macabre, the exhibition is readying for a tour that will take it to Minneapolis, Toronto and Mexico City. Then he’ll bring it all home. “I want my shit back,” he joked on Twitter.