TIFF’s Film Critic Diversity- Equality Over Equity
This whole equation of “there isn’t enough of y community in x workforce” is a completely low-resolution argument that needs to be immediately expunged from rational discourse. The barriers that stop any group of people becoming successful in film criticism, or any industry, need to be identified and eradicated as much as possible, but this form of employment equity is an egregious way of tackling the problem at its end result, not its source.
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Searching Review [2018]: Go Find This Film!
If you’ve been complaining about how Hollywood has run out of ideas, go watch Searching. Want to see a film…
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Relaxer [2018]: ‘North Bend Film Fest’ Review
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