Jamie Lee Curtis, Kim Kardashian, Janelle Monáe, Carey Mulligan, Margot Robbie, Seth Rogen and Yvonne Orji are set to current at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment breakfast gala, introduced by Lifetime. As well as, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey will keynote the occasion, happening Dec. 7 in Los Angeles.
Rogen will present the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award to shut pal and collaborator Charlize Theron. The award, which was established in honor of the previous CEO of Paramount Photos, acknowledges trailblazers and philanthropists.
Orji, in the meantime, will present the Equity in Entertainment Award to her pal and Insecure co-star, Issa Rae. The Fairness in Leisure award acknowledges people who amplify the voices of underrepresented communities within the leisure business.
Moreover, two-time Academy Award nominee Mulligan will introduce keynote audio system Kantor and Twohey, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Instances journalists who authored the investigation into allegations of a long time of sexual abuse by Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. The pair will talk about the affect of their investigation and the way it helped propel the viral #MeToo motion. Their reporting is now the topic of Common Photos’ new drama She Said, which will likely be launched in U.S. theaters Nov. 18. Starring Mulligan as Twohey and Zoe Kazan as Kantor, She Stated is directed by Maria Schrader and written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz.
Curtis, Kardashian, Monáe and Robbie will current $1 million in college scholarships to highschool seniors from underserved communities throughout Los Angeles, all of whom have taken half in THR’s acclaimed Ladies in Leisure Mentorship Program.
Curtis and Monáe will even current scholarships to Chapman College underwritten by The Chuck Lorre Household Basis and Nationwide Affiliation of Theatre Homeowners California Nevada. This can mark the seventh yr that The Chuck Lorre Household Basis has underwritten a full-ride scholarship to a graduate of this system. To this point, Lorre’s basis has supplied greater than $1.2 million in scholarships to the mentorship program. Robbie will current a scholarship to Chapman supplied by Paramount Photos.
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In the meantime, Finest Purchase is offering a full scholarship to Loyola Marymount College to a WIE Mentorship Program mentee. As well as, Finest Purchase and the WIE Mentorship Program are launching a partnership that can proceed to develop this system.
As a part of the partnership, mentees may have entry to the Los Angeles Neighborhood Impression Hub, a community of Finest Purchase Teen Tech Facilities that present entry to cutting-edge expertise and profession coaching alternatives throughout the inventive financial system. The hub will present a pipeline of future mentees for the Ladies in Leisure Mentorship Program with Finest Purchase Teen Tech Middle members being chosen yearly for this system.
“We’re honored to have such a particular alternative to listen to the distinctive views of so many good and provoking girls on the annual Ladies in Leisure gala,” stated Nekesa Mumbi Moody, Editorial Director of The Hollywood Reporter. “We’re additionally extremely grateful to Finest Purchase, The Chuck Lorre Household Basis, Nationwide Affiliation of Theatre Homeowners California Nevada, Paramount Photos and Spotify for his or her contributions to THR’s Ladies in Leisure Mentorship Program. Due to their help, so many younger girls will be capable of obtain their goals and assist form the way forward for each our business and our world for the higher.”
Added Andrea Wooden, Finest Purchase VP social affect: “We‘re proud to work facet by facet with the Ladies in Leisure Mentorship Program to assist youth unleash their full potential. Finest Purchase Teen Tech Facilities have confirmed again and again the precious function {that a} mentor performs in an adolescent’s life. This partnership is the right manner to make sure these life-changing relationships are additionally creating significant alternatives within the inventive financial system for youth from disinvested communities.”
On behalf of Paramount Photos, Robbie, star of Damien Chazelle’s upcoming movie Babylon, will current considered one of this yr’s WIE mentees with a four-year scholarship, supplied by the studio to Chapman. This builds upon Paramount’s decades-long dedication to investing in training alternatives for college students from underserved communities within the Los Angeles space and across the globe.
The gala, which is anticipated to be attended by 750 of the leisure business’s main girls, coincides with the discharge of THR’s much-anticipated annual Ladies in Leisure subject of the journal (arriving on newsstands Dec. 7), which highlights the Energy 100, the main feminine executives in leisure.
Additionally in attendance will likely be almost 40 younger girls representing the incoming and graduating cohorts of the WIE Mentorship Program, which is about to have a good time its thirteenth yr. Every year, this system pairs 20 highschool juniors with among the prime girls in movie and TV. Mentors have included Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke, Imax Leisure president Megan Colligan, Netflix World TV head Bela Bajaria, and Disney Basic Leisure Content material chairman Dana Walden. Greater than 250 women and 250 mentors have taken half in this system. Supported by greater than $12 million that THR has raised in scholarships, mentees have gone on to prime universities, together with Harvard, UC Berkeley and Northwestern.
Lifetime, the founding sponsor of this occasion, has been a companion of the Ladies in Leisure Mentorship Program since its inception and is a serious contributor to its basic scholarship fund, guaranteeing that every mentee receives a $10,000 scholarship to their faculty of selection. This yr, A+E Studios, the award-winning studio unit of Lifetime’s mum or dad firm, A+E Networks, has produced a brief movie highlighting the mentorship program to premiere on the occasion.
“Every year, we’re impressed by the unbelievable younger girls and their onerous work, dedication and immense drive to succeed,” stated Amy Winter, EVP and head of Programming at Lifetime. “We’re thrilled to proceed to companion with The Hollywood Reporter and Massive Brothers Massive Sisters on this impactful mentorship program.” Added Tana Nugent Jamieson, evp inventive affairs, A+E Studios, “It’s an honor for A+E Studios to seize the particular bonds between the mentors and mentees and spotlight how this system creates life-changing alternatives for therefore many shiny younger girls, whereas leaving lasting impressions on the mentors too.”
“Supporting the creativity and progress of younger girls within the leisure business is likely one of the most impactful issues we are able to do,” stated Daybreak Ostroff, Chief Content material & Advert Enterprise Officer at Spotify. “We’ve been so lucky to help The Hollywood Reporter’s mentorship program and supply a scholarship to an extremely deserving younger expertise for 4 consecutive years. By means of occasions like these, we’re in a position to have a good time and amplify the voices of this subsequent era of girls.”
The gala is sponsored by Finest Purchase, eOne, FIJI Water, SAG-AFTRA, SEE HER and Spotify and in partnership with Massive Brothers Massive Sisters of Higher Los Angeles, Chapman College, Loyola Marymount College and Faculty Entry Partnership.