ReFrame and IMDbPro Award 62 TV and Streaming Series with the First-Ever ReFrame Stamp for Television

ReFrame and IMDbPro Recognize Gender-Balanced TV Programs including “GLOW,” “Insecure,” “Jane the Virgin,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “This Is Us”

Los Angeles, CA — ReFrame™ (ReFrameProject.org), a coalition of industry professionals and partner companies founded by Women In Film and Sundance Institute—whose mission is to increase the number of women of all backgrounds working in film, TV and media—and IMDbPro (imdbpro.com)—the essential information resource for the entertainment industry—announced today the 62 TV and streaming series that have earned the first-ever ReFrame Stamp for Television. Based on an open submission call launched on September 26, 2018 to consider the 364 scripted television programs that aired June 1, 2017 – May 31, 2018 (per the Emmys calendar), the inaugural round of recipients includes all five of Shonda Rhimes’s Shondaland shows, “Broad City” (Comedy Central), “Empire” (Fox), “GLOW” (Netflix), “Insecure” (HBO), Jane the Virgin (The CW), “The Handmaid’s Tale” (Hulu), “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon Prime Video) and “This Is Us” (NBC) (see full list below).

The ReFrame Stamp serves as a mark of distinction for film and television projects that have demonstrated success in gender-balanced hiring based on criteria developed by ReFrame in consultation with ReFrame Ambassadors (complete list below), producers and other industry experts. Stamps are awarded to productions that hire female-identifying people in four out of eight critical areas of their production, including: writer, director, showrunner, producer, lead, season regulars, department heads and crew. Additional points are awarded to content that has women of color in key positions. The criteria are iterative and will change over time as the industry evolves. For more information or to apply for the ReFrame Stamp, please visit ReFrameProject.org/tvstamp.

ReFrame Stamp for TV Recipients (2017-2018 Programs)

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” / ABC: Season 5

An American Girl Story: Summer Camp, Friends for Life” / Amazon
Prime Video: TV Movie

Animal Kingdom” / TNT: Season 2

Better Things” / FX: Season 2

Broad City” / Comedy Central: Season 4

Call the Midwife” / PBS: Season 7

Chicago Med” / NBC: Season 3

Claws” / TNT: Season 1

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” / The CW: Season 3

Dear White People” / Netflix: Season 2

Dino Dana” / Amazon Prime Video: Season 1

Empire” / Fox: Season 4

Faith Under Fire: The Antoinette Tuff Story” / Lifetime: TV
Movie

Famous In Love” / Freeform: Season 2

Flint” / Lifetime: TV Movie

For the People” / ABC: Season 1

Foursome” / YouTube Premium: Season 3

GLOW” / Netflix: Season 1

Grace and Frankie” / Netflix: Season 4

Grey’s Anatomy” / ABC: Season 14

Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance” / Lifetime: TV Movie

How to Get Away with Murder” / ABC: Season 4

Howards End” / STARZ: Miniseries

I Am Elizabeth Smart” / Lifetime: TV Movie

I’m Sorry” / TruTV: Season 1

Insecure” / HBO: Season 2

Jane the Virgin” / The CW: Season 4

Jessica Jones” / Netflix: Season 2

Just Add Magic” / Amazon Prime Video: Season 2B

Killing Eve” / BBC America: Season 1

Lace Up: The Ultimate Sneaker Challenge” / YouTube Premium:
Season 1

Little Women” / PBS Masterpiece: Miniseries

Love” / Netflix: Season 3

Madam Secretary” / CBS: Season 4

One Day at a Time” / Netflix: Season 2

Orange Is the New Black” / Netflix: Season 5

Outlander” / STARZ: Season 3

Queen Sugar” / OWN: Season 2

Scandal” / ABC: Season 7

Search Party” / TBS: Season 2

Seven Seconds” / Netflix: Season 1

SMILF” / Showtime: Season 1

Station 19” / ABC: Season 1

Step Up: High Water” / YouTube Premium: Season 1

Story of a Girl” / Lifetime: TV Movie

Supergirl” / The CW: Season 3

Sweetbitter” / STARZ: Season 1

Teachers” / TVLand: Season 2B

The Bold Type” / Freeform: Season 1

The Chi” / Showtime: Season 1

The Detour” / TBS: Season 3

The Girlfriend Experience: Bria” / STARZ: Season
2

The Good Fight” / CBS All Access: Season 2

The Handmaid’s Tale” / Hulu: Season 2

The Last O.G.” / TBS: Season 1

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” / Amazon Prime Video: Season 1

The Mindy Project” / Hulu: Season 6

The Simone Biles Story: Courage to Soar” / Lifetime: TV Movie

This Is Us” / NBC: Season 2

Transparent” / Amazon Prime Video: Season 4

Vida” / STARZ: Season 1

Youth & Consequences” / YouTube Premium: Season 1

About ReFrame

Founded and led by Women In Film and Sundance Institute, ReFrame is a non-profit organization that employs a unique strategy, a peer-to-peer approach, in which ReFrame Ambassadors (see list below) engage with senior, industry decision-makers at over 50 Partner Companies to implement ReFrame programs. The initiative’s goals are to provide research, support, and a practical framework that can be used by Partner Companies to mitigate bias during the creative decision-making and hiring process, celebrate successes, and measure progress toward a more gender-representative industry on all levels. For more information download the ReFrame Culture Change Handbook or visit ReFrameProject.org.

ReFrame is made possible by support from Melanie Backer – Backer Charitable Trust; The Harnisch Foundation; IMDbPro; Mercer; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Zola Mashariki; Women at Sundance Leadership Council: Ruth Ann Harnisch, Katy Drake Bettner, Barbara Bridges, Abigail Disney, Cristina Ljungberg, Ann Lovell, Susan Bay Nimoy, Patty Quillin, Brenda Robinson, Kimberly Steward, Lynda Weinman, Jenifer Westphal, and Jacquelyn Zehner; and an anonymous donor.

About Sundance Institute

Founded in 1981 by Robert Redford, Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization that provides and preserves the space for artists in film, theatre, and new media to create and thrive. The Institute’s signature Labs, granting, and mentorship programs, dedicated to developing new work, take place throughout the year in the U.S. and internationally. The Sundance Film Festival and other public programs connect audiences to artists in igniting new ideas, discovering original voices, and building a community dedicated to independent storytelling. Sundance Institute has supported such projects as Mudbound, Get Out, The Big Sick, Strong Island, Blackfish, Top of the Lake, Winter’s Bone, The Wolfpack, Dear White People, Trapped, Brooklyn, Little Miss Sunshine, 20 Feet From Stardom, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Fruitvale Station, Spring Awakening, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and Fun Home. Join Sundance Institute on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

About Women In Film, Los Angeles

Women In Film advocates for and advances the careers of women working in the screen industries––to achieve parity and transform culture. Founded in 1973, Women In Film supports all women working in film, TV, and digital media from emerging to advanced career. Our distinguished programs include: mentoring, speaker & screening series, production training program, writing labs, film finishing funds, legal aid and an annual financing intensive. Women In Film advocates for gender parity through research, education and media campaigns. Women In Film honors the achievements of women in Hollywood through the legacy series, annual Emmy and Oscar parties and our signature event, the Crystal + Lucy Awards. Membership is open to all media professionals and more information can be found on our website: wif.org. Follow Women In Film on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.

About IMDbPro

IMDbPro (http://www.imdbpro.com) is the essential resource for entertainment industry professionals. This membership-based service includes comprehensive information and tools that are designed to help entertainment industry professionals achieve success throughout all stages of their career. IMDbPro offers members the following: detailed contact and representation information; tools to manage and showcase their IMDb profile, including the ability to select their primary images and the credits they are best “known for”; exclusive STARmeter rankings that are determined by page views on IMDb; the IMDbPro app for iPhone and Android; IMDbPro Track, which empowers members using the iPhone app to receive personalized entertainment industry news and notifications on the people and film & TV projects they want to follow; and a convenient tool that generates custom digital assets to promote their work on social media and other platforms. Additional IMDbPro services include Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com), the leading online source of box-office data. IMDbPro is a division of IMDb (www.imdb.com), the #1 movie website in the world with a combined web and mobile audience of more than 250 million unique monthly visitors. Follow IMDbPro on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/imdbpro/), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/imdbpro/) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/imdbpro).

About IMDb

IMDb is the world’s most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. The IMDb consumer site (www.imdb.com) is the #1 movie website in the world with a combined web and mobile audience of more than 250 million unique monthly visitors. IMDb offers a searchable database of more than 250 million data items including more than 5 million movies, TV and entertainment programs and more than 8 million cast and crew members. Consumers rely on the information IMDb provides — including local movie showtimes, ticketing, trailers, critic and user reviews, personalized recommendations, photo galleries, entertainment news, quotes, trivia, box-office data, editorial feature sections and a universal Watchlist – when deciding what to watch and where to watch it. IMDb’s portfolio of leading entertainment apps (http://www.imdb.com/apps/) includes its popular “Movies & TV” app for iPhone, iPad, Kindle Fire, Android phones, Android tablets and its mobile-optimized website. To date, there have been more than 150 million downloads of IMDb’s mobile apps worldwide. IMDb’s X-Ray for Movies & TV Shows (www.imdb.com/x-ray) is a feature that revolutionizes the viewing experience by bringing the power of IMDb directly to Kindle Fire HD, Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. IMDb’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/imdb) and official Twitter account (https://twitter.com/imdb) are followed by more than 12 million passionate entertainment fans. IMDbPro (http://www.imdbpro.com) is the essential resource for entertainment industry professionals. This membership-based service includes comprehensive information and tools that are designed to help entertainment industry professionals achieve success throughout all stages of their career. IMDbPro offers members the following: detailed contact and representation information; tools to manage and showcase their IMDb profile, including the ability to select their primary images and the credits they are best “known for”; exclusive STARmeter rankings that are determined by page views on IMDb; the IMDbPro app for iPhone and Android; IMDbPro Track, which empowers members using the app to receive personalized entertainment industry news and notifications on the people and film & TV projects they want to follow; and a convenient tool that generates custom digital assets to promote their work on social media and other platforms. Additionally, IMDb owns and operates Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com), the leading online source of box-office data. IMDb.com is operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) (http://www.amazon.com). To learn more, go to: http://www.imdb.com/press.

ReFrame Ambassadors

Adriana Alberghetti
Partner
WME

Stephanie Allain
Founder
Homegrown Pictures

Victoria Alonso
EVP, Physical Production
Marvel Studios

Len Amato
President
HBO Films

Darla Anderson
Award-winning Producer

Chris Andrews
Motion Picture Agent
CAA

Rowena Arguelles
Motion Picture Agent
CAA

Bonnie Arnold
Producer
Co-President, Feature Animation
Dreamworks Animation

Lorrie Bartlett
Partner
ICM

Glen Basner
CEO
FilmNation Entertainment

Maria Bello
Award-winning Actor, Producer and Author

Andrea Berloff
Award-winning Film and TV Writer

Kristin Burr
President
Burr! Productions

Gabrielle Carteris
President
SAG-AFTRA

Cindy Chupack
Award-winning Writer & TV Producer

Harley Copen
Partner/Co-head, Motion Picture Literary Department, ICM

Maha Dakhil
Agent, Motion Picture Literary
CAA

Mike De Luca
President
Michael De Luca Productions

Zanne Devine
Producer
Montana North Media

Megan Ellison
Founder
Annapurna Pictures

Cassian Elwes
Producer
Founder, Elevated Entertainment

Erik Feig
President
PICTURESTART

Paul Feig
Award-winning Director/Producer
FeigCo Entertainment

Jane Fleming
Founding Partner/Producer
Court Five

Sid Ganis
Producer/Founder
Out of the Blue Entertainment

Liz Gateley
Producer

Micah Green
Principal
30WEST

Catherine Hardwicke
Award-winning Director

Kevin Iwashina
Senior Associate
Endeavor Content

Nina Jacobson
Producer
Founder, Color Force

Charles King
Founder and CEO
MACRO

Jenji Kohan
Writer/Producer
Tilted Productions

Sue Kroll
President
KrollCo

Karyn Kusama
Award-winning Film and TV Director/Writer

Franklin Leonard
Founder
The Black List

Linda Lichter
Founding Partner
LGNAF

Debbie Liebling
President
Red Hour Films

Tanya Lopez
EVP, Movies, Limited Series & Original Movie Acquisitions
Lifetime and LMN

Alix Madigan
Award-winning Producer
Founder, Mad Dog Films, LLC

Zola Mashariki
Chief Content Officer
Good Films, LLC

Glen Mazzara
Executive Producer
44 Strong Productions

Hannah Minghella
President of Production
TriStar Pictures

Ryan Murphy
Executive Producer/Director
Ryan Murphy Productions

Bruna Papandrea
Producer
Made Up Stories

Kimberly Peirce
Award-winning Director

Lydia Dean Pilcher
Producer
Founder and CEO, Cine Mosaic
VP of Motion Pictures, PGA

Gigi Pritzker
Founder
Madison Wells Media MWM

Keri Putnam
Executive Director
Sundance Institute

Amy Retzinger
Partner
Verve

Howard Rodman
Writer/Producer
Former President, WGA West

Rena Ronson
Partner & Head
Independent Film Group
UTA

Jennifer Salke
Head of Amazon Studios

Vernon Sanders
Co-Head, Television
Amazon Studios

Michelle Satter
Director, Feature Film Program
Sundance Institute

Cathy Schulman
President, Welle Entertainment
Board President, Women in Film, LA

Stacy L. Smith, PhD
Founder and Director
Annenberg Inclusion Initiative

Jill Soloway
Executive Producer & Director
Topple Productions

Mimi Steinbauer
President and CEO
Radiant Films International

Robin Swicord
Award-winning Screenwriter

Betty Thomas
Award-winning Actor & Director

Christine Vachon
Producer
CEO, Killer Films

Joana Vicente
Executive Director
Independent Filmmaker Project

Paula Wagner
Founder/Owner
Chestnut Ridge Productions

Janet Yang
Producer
Janet Yang Productions

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