The Hollywood Reporter stated Tuesday that Jennifer Lawrence will lead the scholarship presentation at THR’s annual Women in Entertainment breakfast gala offered by Lifetime on Dec. 4 in Los Angeles.
Lawrence, who beforehand accepted the Sherry Lansing Management Award at this occasion in 2017, will current alongside Amanda Zurawski, the lead plaintiff in Zurawski v. State of Texas, a Texas reproductive rights lawsuit spotlighted in the 2024 documentary function movie Zurawski v Texas. Lawrence serves as one of the manager producers on the movie, which follows a bunch of girls, led by Zurawski, who have been denied entry to healthcare and determined to band along with a fearless legal professional from the Heart for Reproductive Rights to sue the state of Texas. Zurawski v Texas, which had its world premiere at the Telluride Movie Pageant, has received quite a few accolades and pageant honors at the Hamptons Worldwide Movie Pageant, Mill Valley Movie Pageant, Sizzling Springs Documentary Movie Pageant, Heartland Worldwide Movie Pageant and Santa Fe Worldwide Movie Pageant.
Lawrence, with accomplice Justine Ciarrocchi and their manufacturing firm Glorious Cadaver, additionally produced Bread & Roses alongside Malala Yousafzai. The movie, which premiered at the 2023 Cannes Movie Pageant, is a robust look into the seismic influence on girls’s lives after the autumn of Kabul to the Taliban in 2022. Directed by Sahra Mani, Bread & Rose will probably be launched worldwide on Apple TV+ on Nov. 22. Bread & Roses was the primary documentary beneath the Glorious Cadaver banner, with Zurawski v. Texas having adopted shortly after.
On the gala, 4 full-ride college scholarships, amounting to a price of greater than $1 million, will probably be handed out. The Chuck Lorre Household Basis is offering two scholarships, one to Chapman College and one to Loyola Marymount College. That is the ninth 12 months TCLFF has underwritten scholarships for this system, offering greater than $2 million in scholarships for this system to date. The Nationwide Affiliation of Theater Homeowners California Nevada will underwrite its third scholarship to Chapman College. Author-EP Melissa Blake, identified for her work on Primarily based on a True Story (Peacock) and The Wilds (Amazon), will present a scholarship to Loyola Marymount College.
Lifetime has been a accomplice of the Women in Entertainment Mentorship Program since its inception and is a serious contributor to its basic scholarship fund, guaranteeing that every mentee receives a $10,000 scholarship to their school of alternative. A+E Networks, Lifetime’s father or mother firm, can also be producing a brief movie highlighting the mentorship program to premiere at the occasion. Lifetime has contributed greater than $1.5 million in assist of this system over the previous seven years.
The scholarships are awarded to highschool seniors presently collaborating in THR’s pioneering Women in Entertainment Mentorship Program which pairs some of the brightest highschool women from underserved communities in Los Angeles with some of essentially the most highly effective feminine executives in movie and TV. The gala will probably be attended by roughly 30 highschool juniors and seniors collaborating in this system. The mentorship program, which was launched with Massive Brothers Massive Sisters of Better Los Angeles and is a fiscally sponsored fund of the Entertainment Business Basis, will rejoice its fifteenth anniversary at the gala.
“Presenting these scholarships to the students who have participated in THR’s mentorship program is one of the most special moments of our program each year,” stated THR co-editors-in-chief Nekesa Mumbi Moody and Maer Roshan. “These incredible students will undoubtedly help shape the future of our industry and our world overall. We are so honored to have role models like Jennifer Lawrence and Amanda Zurawski present these scholarships and we wish all of the students in our Women in Entertainment Mentorship Program every success as they take this next step in their education and in their lives.”
The Hollywood Reporter can also be honored to announce that WME is generously contributing $75,000 to assist the important operational bills of the mentorship program together with program administration by BBBSLA and EIF, transportation for the mentees, school check prep, school admissions and monetary support counseling, and extra.
Golden Globe Basis continues its beneficiant assist with its multiyear grant of $50,000 yearly by 2025 to Massive Brothers Massive Sisters of Better Los Angeles to assist the mentorship program’s basic scholarship fund. “The Hollywood Reporter‘s Women In Entertainment Mentorship Program is a magnificent initiative that empowers the next generation of women in our industry,” stated Henry Arnaud, president of the Golden Globe Basis. “Golden Globe Foundation congratulates WIE on 15 incredible years and is delighted to continue its support of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles by funding college scholarships.”
As beforehand introduced, Greatest Purchase has renewed its partnership, which started in 2022, with the Women in Entertainment Mentorship Program. Greatest Purchase Teen Tech Facilities, a program of the Greatest Purchase Basis, are a community of inventive, youth-centered neighborhood hubs the place teenagers can have interaction with the most recent expertise, study real-world profession expertise and work together with supportive mentors. Via the partnership, teenagers have entry to the Los Angeles Group Affect Hub, a community of up to 12 facilities in L.A. that intention to create a direct expertise pipeline that offers younger folks the chance to uncover and pursue careers in the native inventive economic system. The Group Affect Hub additionally gives a pipeline of youth for the Women in Entertainment Mentorship Program, with Greatest Purchase Teen Tech Heart members being chosen yearly for this system.
The gala will see Nicole Kidman honored with the celebrated Sherry Lansing Management Award and Selena Gomez honored with the Fairness in Entertainment Award. The gala, attended by 600 business leaders and VIPs, coincides with the discharge of The Hollywood Reporter’s extremely anticipated Women in Entertainment difficulty, which highlights the Energy 100, an inventory of essentially the most highly effective feminine executives and expertise in leisure.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment occasion is offered by Lifetime, which has been one of the WIE Mentorship Program’s greatest supporters, having contributed greater than $1.7 million in scholarships over the previous eight years. The occasion can also be sponsored by Greatest Purchase, Delta Air Traces, Uncommon Magnificence, Regent Seven Seas Cruises, Sephora and WME and offered in partnership with Massive Brothers Massive Sisters of Better Los Angeles, the Entertainment Business Basis, Chapman College and Loyola Marymount College.
