Variety: BRON Studios Lends a Helping Hand to AAPI Creative Networking Group

Exciting excerpt from Variety that features our new AAPI Creatives group:

Bron Studios is lending a helping hand to AAPI Creatives, a networking group started by Zosimo Maximo to amplify Asian American voices working in the industry.

Maximo used Clubhouse to form a group of AAPI filmmakers who are inspired to change the narrative in Hollywood and build new opportunities for themselves. The group consists of Becky Baihui Chen, D.J. Jiang, Serena Rasoul, Diane Paragas, Jay DasGupta, Ashwini Prasad, Dinh Thai, Soma Helmi, Ruth Du and David Moriya.

Brenda Gilbert, the co-founder and president of Bron Studios, said it wasn’t until this year that she realized how much power Clubhouse had in terms of “getting people together and having open conversations with like-minded people that you wouldn’t generally have access to before.” Gilbert said she wants to make herself accessible to the members of Maximo’s networking group.

“We’re having open dialogue in terms of what can we do to provide the AAPI community with opportunities,” Gilbert said.

Bron has a diverse leadership staff making decisions for the studio and overseeing a robust slate of content. Former Lionsgate executive Brady Fujikawa was hired in January as the executive VP of film, where he oversees all creative development, production and distribution. The studio also recently hired Jason Chen as the executive VP of Bron Digital, which is creating quality animated series using the Unreal game engine. Chen said he is using technology as a platform to celebrate different ethnicities and cultures.

“It is important that we embrace stories from our Asian American Pacific Islander community and all communities to encourage the next generation of creatives to explore their past, fight for the present and make waves for the future,” Chen added.

Maximo said the goal of this new partnership is “to get more people on the phone” and have important conversations. Gilbert will meet with the AAPI Creatives over Zoom in the coming weeks to brainstorm some of the projects that they could work on together as well as the resources each individual filmmaker would need to get started…

Full write-up here:

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/bron-studios-aapi-creatives-representation-zosimo-maximo-1234973013/