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hm. and i thought when was the last time that you saw a visibly muslim, tied to ivr on film on a tv show? now, depending on where in the world you live, it might take you quite some time to come up with that. also, there are almost 2000000000 muslims in the well, but you wouldn't know it from watching play what productions say today on the stream we are looking at what would it take to boost missing representation in phil? let me give you an example. let me introduce you to nadia. nadia 20 to 30 years old. isis terrace. oh, skin sexy,

sexy. must wear had scarf, and have middle eastern eyebrows. we keep playing these stereotypes, but hollywood love stereotype. yeah. and it's wrong. oh, you're on the wrong business. if you're going to get, all right, you know, look at what's happening in our country right now. you know, like, it is crazy out here. only very well, actually a she just, that's me. who are, if characters light nadia, a part of a problem. what's the solution you're about to meet 3 guests who have the ideas, a concrete and terrible hello to kashi, if hello, so odd and hello janice. so nice to have you on the street. can she?

can you introduce yourself to our international audience? tell them what you do and who you are. course thank you so much for having me. my name is kasha shake. i'm the co founder and the president of the pillars fund good to have you. so i welcome back to the stream. lovely to see you again, remind our audience who you are, what you do to see you to. i'm a scholar arleson academic around fact little square and i want to wait to watch tv . oh, well, thank you very handy for us today. thank you so much. and is it gena, mo, is it nadia or is a l who can tell the creator? oh, that little web series that we stay do a little table. we're going to hear so much more about it. jenna, welcome to the student. tell everybody who you are. what you do. thank you so much . hello, i'm jenna mahoney, bosco. i'm a writer actress and a filmmaker and my tv comedy pilot levy liberty was just selected for the pillars fund and the blacklist muslim list. so i'm really excited to be here and to be talking about my favorite thing. tv though. all right,

very good and audience. i know you love tv because you're watching right now. if you have a comment or question for a for i guess about representation of muslims in phil. hey, you got comment section is waiting for you. be part of today's show caution. i have to start with you because your organization came up with a study to really track in the u. s. u. k, australia, new zealand. major films, big, big, big films, representation of muslims. and the results were expected, but still shocking. tell us more. yeah, it was, it was definitely expected. so we did this research project with the ford foundation and the annenberg inclusion center at the university of southern california. and the actor resentment, and really the purpose of the study was because there was no real data on what representation and muslims looked like on film and television. and while we expected the results to not be good, i think we were still really dismayed. and in some facets,

really shocked by what we saw the we expected that the representation of muslims on film and television would be abysmal. but we didn't expect it to be as completely erased. and that the nuance than the diversity of muslims to be completely erased from popular culture. so i think that for us it was a really, it was, it was a really difficult thing to see because once a result started to come out, we really started to understand why and how these attitudes towards muslims are around the world. we're starting to shape because as we know, popular culture of film and television don't just confirmed by this, and sometimes they create viruses. and so this data was really, really instrumental for us to recognize. and also the data was important for us to then show hollywood and say, there is a real problem here. we need to change this. and the numbers absolutely confirm it . i think it kind of really confirmed a lot of muslims knew, growing up, which was representation,

has always been really terrible of muslims. but now with the hard data in front of us, we could actually start to move hollywood studios, film studio, and someone like resentment who is but his star power behind this, i think were incredibly excited about what could come. but the results were definitely incredibly disheartening. so our pick up. yeah, i mean, i think it's funny, like i was a little less surprised. it's kinda like water is wet. you know, good news not. and especially, you know, as a black person, you know, as a back person in general. right. i know hollywood runs right we're, we're never there in our complexity and as a black muslim the same thing, right. and i think, you know, the, like you said abysmal right from also in general and even more so for them. so our african does that right? i think we see most on black muslims, sometimes they show up right in the hollywood film on sometimes like, trader those kind of films. right. where they're kind of a bit of a terrorist. but we're not really sure. or they'll be like in black films or black

media and they'll be this kind of, you know, kind of militant person, right? kind of like that type of thing, but not, but not the full range, right? not folks from all parts of the country, all parts of the world end up in new ads who are black. and so i was pretty like, yeah, i guess that worth wet, you know, but you know, one of the things we know we need is you do do the data, right? because my folks are going to be like, but what about this? i thought this one thing one time over the years ago. oh you're tough janet. you already knew this because you are making committee hours. i lack of representation. i lack of reputation, but they tell stereotypes in trumps. yeah, absolutely. i mean i, i did speak on behalf of be in my artist community. there were like go out, tell us something we don't know. 1 you know, it's a, it's disheartening to see the, the facts and figures. i mean, we knew we know they're terrible because we read, we read scripts all the time. we audition all the time. we know,

but also i'm very hopeful i'm hopeful because of my community. i'm hopeful because we are creating so many incredible new stories and authentic storytelling is really what i'm passionate about. and what hollywood seems to have kept him too now. and yeah, i mean, there is, there are so many more stories and more communities that we need to tap into, especially within muslims, in general. i mean, it's a massive community and, and we, we're just, we haven't even scratched the surface yet. cause if there was one start that really brought home why representation is so important? how many, how many kids shows have muslim representation in them? a muslim in them or, or an animation wave? a muslim in than in the whole of north america. how, how many kid shows that would be 01? no, none. that's outrageous. i would have said there's probably one maybe on i don't know,

sesame street or whatever, but none. now, you know, i think that you're right there. there was a lot that came out of this study that was disheartening and that we sort of knew. but when you have something like that, we've seen the importance of telling of animation and kid television shows in sort of helping shape children. i have nieces and nephews and i've watched mo, honor about like a 1000 times point, you know, and, and so you can see the important that these depictions have on the psyche of children and the fact that there were absolutely none was incredibly disheartening . and it's also really scary and i think that those types of the testing i think were really important to pull out from the study to be able to then hold for because i think you're right is that i wouldn't, i wouldn't have get 0. yeah. but the fact that it is 0, we have a real,

real big problem when are they, you know, yes. so as you go 1st and then i will make the med wait for you to finish. what is the point? you know, it's interesting how we think of time, things get better, you know, as you go forward, actually, i've been to the archives recently, and there was an episode of the show that used to be on the cartoon network called the proud family. and there was most of our presentation in that, right, and this is probably in the ninety's or something like that. but i think the point here is that it wasn't great though. so it was full a problem, right? so i think we want to, so now it's like, ok, so there was 0, we want more than 0. well, we don't want something that's just gonna, you know, create, like in this one it was like the girl or a car. and those rama on everyone's like why she doing that is she hi, is this young very well where it wasn't really helping hash tag, not even water. that's an in joke that i'm not going to explain to anybody. he's not muslim. alright. here on my laptop res. ahmed, the importance of representation. if you a kid,

you want to see another muslim tied to was in characters in your kid shows. this is what he had to say about the data and the survey. ah, no couple of things did really stand out to me. surprising one was there was, seems a totally absent from animations. there were no, was them characters in any of these? talk to you on the films? i love animations. it was really impacting kids and how they see themselves and where they're rendered invisible of was the characters, the obstacles they face were all at home with family problems. a lot of the time, rather than seeing was some characters out there trying to save world of we want to say was much as anyone else. man, no couple of things. dennis, one of the things that people are doing, if the problem are the gatekeepers, then how do you get around the gate keeper? what did you teach, anna? well, i mean, i'm a writing within the industry is actually creating that own ot or an a

creator because i started out as an actor and i very quickly realized, oh gosh, it's rough out here. i mean, especially for people of color. i mean, the breakdowns were getting are, are so, and i can speak, you know, the muslim breakdowns for characters or just, oh, as a result, med spoke about, you know, one dement it needs to go way path that needs to go. there needs to be way more producers, studio executives, production companies, and writers in the writers room. because once it's already on the actors, you know, hands ready to audition. it's too late. the problematic story has already been written and what we've seen is they're often riddled with oriental is really problematic. awful portrayals of muslims which are just not even true. and quite frankly we're sick of it and it's not welcome anymore. voice if i, if i may get to one another voice, this is a mom and she's talking about this at an engine light way of walking around the gate keepers in the industry. it really is about getting into the door. we have so

many stories to tell with such strong background and authentic real stories. but giving her more producers more writer, it has been really, really great. and getting the most, some story out there. and we can't get discount independent filmmakers because still makers have to get about this too. right. so because idea about hollywood, like i said, you know, the stories are there, the audience is there. right. but you can't get greenwood and this is what needs to happen. and so this question from some huge, this is from maya, i'm going to put this one to you. jenna representation is needed, but we shouldn't do at the expanding janaya type. i mean, of course, of course we want to see humans. we want to see a variety of stories, right? i mean people of middle eastern and enough, and i'm like, personal. i don't know what the term lease term, but i won't get into that. but what does that mean and just like that, a lot of thing. we have black muslims, we have

a muslims from south asia from north africa for i mean it's such a big community. so we can't, we can't really prescribe. and i really enjoyed the film that came out one night in miami, which had to most characteristically no one, no toilet. i read it, yes. all right, but not, not where it was here, but just the idea that i felt i, i enjoyed the movie and i enjoyed the fact that we saw personal by the both of the people who are like the moving large figures. right. but they were other, but they are terrible. but this is what we can do about it. i feel like this is, is more important than knowing how bad the representation is, the blueprint. what is in the blueprint, what an easy to follow. ways to solve the representation issue of muslims in film with an easy way to start to really diversify and change the way the muslims are being represented on screen. and in particularly in the way that they're being very harmful. these representations are incredibly harmful. so we're asking studios and

we're working with video at the sunset, those tear tropes. i think that's incredibly important. the 2nd thing is, is dr. so odd that it's a really go back to that last question. we sort of completely believe there is no one way to be muslim. there is no sort of one authentic way to be muslim. but we do believe in the diversity in the complexity of the muslim identity and being able to talk about being with him is really, really important. and so we're really working with, with these studios to be able to be game changing. we are offering unrestricted funding to artist and creators to. ready and we're working with an array of advisors, i'm using the list there were so so except all trying to really get to stay keeper issue, trying to basically mentor support and financially support these artists. i think that's going to be what i is going to be really game changing. i guess i just want to take your temperature, your mood right now for how positive you are feeling. what start though, with an extra voice into our conversation is his christian. he's feeling quite

bullish about the way food. have a listen, avalon, be inclusion. an issue report confirms with scholars like josh heinous, talk about the future of most some storytelling on screen. for one, we have great independent must have cinema. we have filmmakers like mitchell mean susan uses mussa, saheed or boston tarik, are making dynamic, and beautiful, prevails on muslims. we also have access to international film from us majority countries. i said, trust muslim storytellers and creators and give them the opportunity. you know what i personally as someone who is born and raised in this country, you know, in new jersey, i want to see more representations of muslims that are, that are not foreign and don't speak a different language. i mean, those are wonderful to, but i want to see morgan, i'm calling him. how are you feeling? oh i'm, i'm glad we can. we can knock off, right. i'm not going to go ahead. i wasn't good. so i mean,

i bring this but generally speaking, i think, i mean, i think that there's a lot opportunity, but it's uphill battle. and i'm really interested in seeing how we represent, like how we represent our felt like so, for example, how muslims, of one ethnic, whatever background represent lessons with other backgrounds. because one of the things that i get concerned about is how, you know, we can reproduce some of the tropes. right? so i feel like i'm excited for what's happening and i just want to get people feet to the fire. so that would be producing stuff that, you know, really kind of representative touch of i've got 30 seconds to wrap up the show if you have to last work i had i'll just say that i, i don't think it's a matter of being optimistic or pessimistic amount about being determined and i think we have the infrastructure as muslim communities in the us for the 1st time to really have resources to really hold people accountable. and that's what we really plan to do is to hold these people accountable. when they say they're going to do something, make sure that they do something, and that's what kind of gives me that hope in moving forward with all of this work

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