MK McFadden

Stuff and things happened this week.

READ:

• Meet Marvel’s Secret Weapon: ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Executive Producer Trinh Tran from Shondaland
• Writing Process : Taika Waititi from Mentorless
• Guillermo Del Toro on Writing, Directing and the Essence of Being from No Film School
• WGA West Inclusion Report Card: Writers Still Overwhelmingly White and Male from IndieWire
• ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Needed More Than One Pandering ‘Girl Power’ Moment to Make Its Female Superheroes Soar from IndieWire
• From Lena Waithe to Lin-Manuel Miranda: 50 Agents of Change Empowering Diverse Voices in Hollywood from The Hollywood Reporter
• Dee Rees Blasts ‘Discriminatory Theatrical Practices’ in Lincoln Center Gala Speech from Indiewire
• Critic’s Notebook: John Singleton Changed How Black America Looked at Itself from The Hollywood Reporter
• 88 Percent of Showrunners Are White, WGA West Finds from The Hollywood Reporter
• How the ‘Shaun of the Dead’ Script Directs Your Eye from No Film School
• Lena Waithe, Gina Prince-Bythewood Talk Shortcomings of Hollywood Diversity Programs, Building a Mentoring Network from The Hollywood Reporter
• Film Independent Forum 2019: Nisha Ganatra and Lilly Singh on Measures of Success as Queer Women of Color from Moviemaker Magazine
• The death of Hollywood’s middle class from Fast Company

SAW:

• Avengers Stunt Performer Reflects on Being a Black Woman in the Movie Industry from The Root
• The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
• What we do in the Shadows (2 episodes)
• Dead to Me (6 episodes)
• Fast Color
• Game of Thrones 804

WROTE: Nothing.