Women & Hollywood has a fantastic guest post by L.A. Collins in which she interviews Lisa Cortes, the executive producer of Precious. She writes:

At the SAG Awards, critics darling and Oscar front-runner Mo'Nique flipped the script. She took a special, unexpected moment to give a nod to the dedicated and not-so-visible 'sistren' collaborators behind-the-scenes of Precious, the women whose focused energy came together in perfect parts to bring the little film that could to life.

One such fierce woman, Lisa Cortes, the film's executive producer, is all about the power of harnessing and circling energy in the art world: from film to music; corporate to non-profit; high art to folk. "In my mind producing films and supporting other arts are intertwined because the big picture intention is to increase the well-being of woman and mankind. Art opens the door to possibility ..."

Read the rest here.

And for more on Precious:
Precious, my Precious: Black Female Citizenship, Complexity, and the Politics of Unrelenting Survival
On Representation: Push versus Precious
Bad-Ass Woman: Actress Gabby Sidibe
Precious: A Feminist Must-See

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