Urbanworld CEO Stacy Spikes Warns of Guilds Policing Filmmakers After WGA Pulls Sponsorship Over AI Initiative (EXCLUSIVE)

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The email came through last week. The follow-up call may as well have been an email. “There wasn’t a lot of insight into their full thinking process,” Stacy Spikes, the founder of the film festival Urbanworld, told Variety about the Writers Guild of America East’s decision not to sponsor the 30th edition of the BIPOC-f
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The email came through last week.
The follow-up call may as well have been an email. “There wasn’t a lot of insight into their full thinking process,” Stacy Spikes, the founder of the film festival Urbanworld, told Variety about the Writers Guild of America East’s decision not to sponsor the 30th edition of the BIPOC-focused […]
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