{"id":42776,"date":"2014-05-13T17:53:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T21:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=42776"},"modified":"2014-05-13T17:53:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T21:53:21","slug":"sag-aftra-and-film-lab-renew-contract-to-promote-diversity-in-film-and-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=42776","title":{"rendered":"SAG-AFTRA and Film Lab Renew Contract to Promote Diversity in Film and TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAG-AFTRA and The Asian American Film Lab\u2122 (\u201cFilm Lab\u201d) are pleased to announce the renewal of their agreement enabling SAG-AFTRA members to more easily participate in the annual 72 Hour Shootout\u2122 competition (the \u201cShootout\u201d), a worldwide filmmaking competition promoting gender and ethnic diversity.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Shootout, now in its tenth year, has inspired hundreds of diverse filmmakers by helping nascent talent take brave steps towards a filmmaking career.  The Film Lab management, several of whom are members of SAG-AFTRA themselves, expressed gratitude to SAG-AFTRA for \u201chelping pave the way for diverse talent to gain recognition and exposure in the Shootout while maintaining protection and support for the actors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Shootout launches June 6th at a live Launch Party in New York City and around the globe. For more information, please visit the Film Lab\u2019s website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianamericanfilmlab.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.asianamericanfilmlab.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAG-AFTRA and The Asian American Film Lab\u2122 (\u201cFilm Lab\u201d) are pleased to announce the renewal of their agreement enabling SAG-AFTRA members to more easily participate in the annual 72 Hour Shootout\u2122 competition (the \u201cShootout\u201d), a worldwide filmmaking competition promoting gender and ethnic diversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-up-to-date-news-on-everything-asian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42778,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42776\/revisions\/42778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}