Social impact agency Propper Daley hosted its second “Day of Irresponsible Conversation” summit on Thursday, with a star-studded lineup that included Kim Kardashian, Uzo Aduba, Chrissy Teigen, BJ Novak and director/producer Scott Budnick.
The invite-only event is produced in partnership with cultural change agency Invisible Hand. the hollywood reporter as a media partner – was held at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills and featured a full day of programming designed to connect writers, producers and television executives with agents of cultural change. The day’s many conversations included intellectual humility, mental health, social and economic divisions, criminal justice, reproductive rights, climate change, responsible technology and more.
Kardashian and Budnick attacked presenter Barratt Thurston in the panel “How to do things in a divided America”, where they talked about the defender of penitentiary reform since much time after discovering how broken the system has been, especially for people by heart.
Budnick, who had a prolific career producing many Todd Phillips films, left the industry for five years to lead the nonprofit Anti-Recidivism Coalition, which works to end mass incarceration in California.
“I took a 90 percent pay cut, I gave up my position of power, I couldn’t hire anybody, I couldn’t hire anybody and it was the biggest five years,” Budnick said. “What I’ve realized in five years of doing this nonprofit is that it’s about storytelling: all the men and women, boys and girls I’ve worked with, are telling their stories and humanizing them.
“I think storytelling is very important because people always ask, ‘How can you help?’ What can you do?” added Kardashian. “Someone once said to me, ‘Why are you working on something? Work on politics. And I told them, “If you don’t put your face on that rap sheet and don’t listen,” people just want to feel safe in the community, they want to feel that way. If you don’t hear their story, if you don’t hear where they came from and where they are now, you won’t feel safe reading the newspaper. Therefore, the history aspect is so important that politics can be dealt with. ”
Kardashian said she balances all her law work with her business and law school: “I have a rule where I’m dealing with 10 cases at a time, and I can’t go beyond that.” Budnick also noted that he has 300 people from the ARC, “all who used to be incarcerated are now union cameramen, union hair and makeup artists, union locker rooms. He was a game-changer, especially in his films like only mercy that also relate to criminal justice reform on screen.
Of Budnick’s current movie plans through his co-financing company One Community, he said THR Look for “stories that can impact people’s lives but are fun; Fun first. Nobody gets vegetables, nobody gets medicine. We’ll put you in a big commercial movie, TV show, documentary series with real movie stars, it’s going to be believable and fun and you don’t know what’s going to happen, but you’re going to learn something. He’s going to want to influence the ending and we’ll give him a way to influence the ending,” he said, citing go outside s black Panther as inspiration.
Aduba also gave a dramatic reading of Jonathan Haidt’s essay on the Summit morning show. after Babylon and writer-director Billy Ray, who is currently working with Adam McKay on a film about the January 6 riots, in a panel titled “Radicalization: ‘How Bad Can It Get?’
“Over the last six years, we’ve learned that democracy is a decision; It’s not absolute like gravity or the sun rising in the morning. Democracy happens when 330 million Americans decide what must happen and what must be nurtured, protected and watered,” Ray told the audience. “If we don’t, we just won’t have one.”
In the afternoon, Novak participated in a conversation called “Walking the Path to Deeper Understanding”, where, inspired by the trip he took for the film. RevengeHe urged Hollywood to “send people to where their roots are so they can report something and it’s not just surroundings And it shows the privileged who have won every Emmy award.”
Zazie Beetz moderated a talk entitled “Apocalypse Never: Our Climate Future and BIPOC Solutions” and a side talk THR He revealed his hopes for on-screen weather stories.
“If you’re making a movie in 2022, there’s no world where your story doesn’t include a conversation about the weather, whether it’s how people on your show choose to eat, choose transportation, or potentially current crises.” Background,” he said. “I don’t think it should be about making the weather the focal point of every story, but about creating the weather as the landscape of the story, like you’re doing a romantic comedy in New York, going to New York. York to play a character in a story.” Teigen was one of the last speakers to give a speech on reproductive rights called “I Made This Choice”.
Properdale President Greg Proper, who celebrated the first “Day of Irrational Talk” since 2019 after missing the last two years due to the pandemic, said this year the focus was on “the issue of intellectual humility and the joy of being wrong.” ”. It helps us develop our curiosity muscle and ask questions.”
And when it comes to hiring talent and a wide range, the organization has tried to “elevate the debates and cable news conversations and just try to have a more nuanced conversation about the issues. I think most people want it, it’s hard to find,” Proper added. “I think people are wondering, it’s just a matter of, can we get them out of their writers’ rooms and their performances for a day so that they join us long enough to listen?”
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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