Promoting Opportunity from 6 Feet Apart
The world is a quite different place than it was just a few months ago. Social distancing has halted not only our lives but also the way we create content. But what if we looked at this time as an opportunity to stretch our creativity and challenge ourselves to create within the boundaries of this new reality?
That is what THE SIX FEE APART EXPERIMENT is here to encourage, testing its participants’ imagination, storytelling ability, and character development as they create and submit radically sincere content that celebrates the human spirit in the age of COVID-19.
Announcing BRIC Digital Creative Academy
In response to COVID-19 and the postponement of all in-person BRIC Creative Academy events for the foreseeable future, we are now recruiting coaches for BRIC Digital Creative Academy. We're going to be compiling a schedule of creatives willing to offer free tutorials, demos, and ongoing classes for elementary/middle & high school students. This could be art, music, creative writing, cooking, coding, whatever- the main thing needed is that these need to be LOW TECH- a lot of students just have access to phones and maybe a tablet.
2020 BRIC Talent + Innovation Summit Findings
On February 21, 2020, a group of 150 thought provokers came together from different facets of the entertainment and tech industries to collectively solve how we support and nurture upand-coming talent as it pertains to women and underrepresented groups who have an interest in being creative leaders. Over the course of an 8-Hour day, there were keynote speakers, panels, and five workshops. During the workshops, participants were broken into randomly assigned groups of ten. There they spent time coming up with solutions to the following questions. Their solutions were then shared with the larger group and discussed.
Animation Magazine: Inaugural BRIC Impact Awards Announced at 2020 Summit
The BRIC Foundation, dedicated to increasing representation in the entertainment industry, held its second annual BRIC Talent + Innovation Summit on February 21, bringing together a community of thought provokers and disruptors across tech and entertainment to chart a course for meaningful change. The sold-out Summit was packed with inspiring talks, engaging workshops and actionable insights, bringing the power of perspective to attendees who joined from across government, media, tech, gaming and entertainment.
Animation Magazine: 2nd BRIC Talent + Innovation Summit Continues Push for Representation
The BRIC Foundation, dedicated to increasing representation in the entertainment industry, today announced its second annual BRIC Talent + Innovation Summit, bringing together a community of thought provokers and disruptors across tech and entertainment to chart a course for meaningful change this February 21.
2020 BRIC Talent + Innovation Summit Announcement
he BRIC Foundation, dedicated to increasing representation in the entertainment industry, today announced its second annual BRIC Talent + Innovation Summit, bringing together a community of thoug
BRIC Creative Academy + NFMLA
On Saturday, December 7th and Sunday, December 8th, students created short films about “How Documentaries Change Your Perspective” at NFMLA’s Docuslate Film Festival. We had a group of industry expert “coaches” split up to guide and mentor the teams on their projects and assist them with creating their projects.
Hello Future Career Fair
On October 23rd & 24th, BRIC Foundation’s Nicole West, Melanie Augustyn Hoffman, Nicole Hendrix, and Jill Gilbert participated in the LA Promise Fund’s Hello Future Career Fair. Over two days, LA Promise Fund immersed 12,000 young people ranging from middle and high school girls to local college students of color in STEM, making Hello Future the largest STEM conference for young people of color in the nation.