Personal Statement: A Career In Production

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Although I am most interested in acting, I want to pursue a career in production because I don’t see a diverse and accurate representation of society, in films and on television. I want to be one of the people who is deciding what content makes it to the screen, as well as, be one of the people on the screen. Media has been so conditioned to having the same faces on the screen, and this continues to negatively affect the public. For example, the depiction of the strong, white male has continued to drive stories in front and behind the camera, but I want to change this. Minorities, women, the LGBTQ community and many more deserve to be properly represented on television and film, and they should not be defined through the eyes of white males

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