Subverting Marginalization: How We Tell Our Own Stories
The Outfest Outpost at 2023 Sundance Film Festival • 13m
ReadySet is a diversity, equity and inclusion firm that helps companies build more human-centric, inclusive cultures, teams, and products. ReadySet values the power of storytelling to affect societal change and delivers impactful solutions for entertainment industry clients such as The Television Academy, Westbrook, A24, Netflix, and more. For this Fireside Chat, ReadySet Founder and CEO, Y-Vonne Hutchinson sits down with 2-time Grammy-nominated producer, filmmaker, and director of Sundance 2023 selection Kokomo City, D. Smith. She discusses the lessons that she applied from her time in the high-pressure music business to create a film set rooted in fairness and inclusion, especially for participants from historically marginalized and excluded communities.
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