The state of minorities in Hollywood
June 26th, 2010
“It’s not a mystery. It’s pretty blatant,” says Carlos de Jesus, director of NYU’s Future Filmmakers Workshop. “The film industry has been dominated, especially at the upper echelons, by white males.”
The statistics for minorities are grimmer than for women: I couldn’t find any online. If you know of any sources, please let me know. Here are a couple of articles that I did find. However they’re not even from the last year:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/visibleman/2008/08/minorities_get_little_respect_1.html
http://www.newenglandfilm.com/news/archives/99january/womeninfilm.htm
This article tackles TV and video games with the same dismal results:
But let’s get the latest statistics and hopefully see some improvement!
Sandip Mahal, London, UK, working on a playout for the executives.
Sandip writes, "The person in the monitor's story is being trapped and isolated from civilisation... i can relate..." 
Susan B. Ades, Editor, NY, NY in front of her home editing suite. 
Vickie Sampson, Supervising Sound Editor, Director, Writer, Shadow Hills, CA, with dog Pinky.
Ed Abroms, Burbank, CA, on loc in Lowell, MI.
the state is the same in the UK!
there are these courses to give minorities a “leg up” into the world of television but the amount of people who actually make it up the ladder is very rare.
It’s still a sort of cultural box ticking.
And the fact that America is far advanced with minority actors than the UK is at least something.