Lalo's House, a narrative film about child trafficking that was filmed on location in Haiti was mentored by MISC Executive Director Michael Taylor. Many of this year's winning films had social impact messages.

The event was held at the USC School of Cinematic Arts on Sept. 26. Titled Producing Diversity: A Conversation Presented by MISC and the PGA, it brought four prominent producers to SCA to discuss the impact of diversity on Hollywood: Janet Yang, who moderated, was joined by Stephanie Allain, Teddy Zee, Terence Paul Winter.

The inaugural event, held at a pizza restaurant near campus, focused on discussing “Crazy Rich Asians,” directed by USC alumnus Jon Chu, which came out in August 2018 and is one of the year’s most talked about films.

Colin Kaepernick comes out of a great tradition of Black American prophets who were willing to become controversial - even hated - for standing up to injustice.