Filmmaker Keithian D. Sammons: “Not including diversity in Film and TV is like orphaning people from the world and their culture”
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9 min readNov 21, 2019
It’s important to represent or have someone that looks and sounds like “you”
It’s important to share stories and ideas from an individual that’s culturally connected to “you”
It’s important to show the possibilities of our world in the future. Perhaps show what this world “is like” and “is going to be” in the future, with out systematic exploitation.
I feel like not including diversity is like orphaning people from the world and their culture. We are all honestly working towards one love… but if all people are not represented, then we have holes in that love and the history of our countries, world, and times are lost.
As a part of my series about leaders helping to make Film and TV more representative of the US population, I had the distinct…
