Paramount Responds to Latino Leaders’ Boycott Call over Lack of Hiring Latinos in front and behind the camera
Paramount Pictures was singled out earlier this week by Latino leaders for its “dismal numbers” in the hiring of Latino and Latina actors, writers and directors. Speaking at a news conference in Pasadena, leaders of the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) and the National Latino Media Coalition (NLMC), called for the public to join them in a boycott to force the studio to sign a Memorandum of Understanding “detailing how they are going to solve their Latino exclusion problem.
Paramount was prompt to respond in a statement:
“We recently met with NHMC in a good faith effort to see how we could partner as we further drive Paramount’s culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging. Under our new leadership team, we continue to make progress — including ensuring representation in front of and behind the camera in upcoming films such as Dora the Explorer, Instant Family, and Limited Partners — and welcome the opportunity to build and strengthen relationships with the Latinx creative community further.”
NHMC and NLMC have announced several actions are going to be taken against Paramount in the coming months.
The immediate one is a petition that was sent out through Color of Change.
Within hours we received over 100 signatures and need all of you to sign the petition, and just as important, to send it to all of your own contacts for signatures. It’s imperative that you take action as soon as possible. We’re looking to have 5000 signatures by the time we deliver them to Paramount at the second demonstration on September 12th.
You can find the petition by CLICKING HERE:
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