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Canon Club: Issue No. 9
Welcome to the ninth issue of DEG’s Canon Club Newsletter!
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Nominations Are Open for the 2025 Hedy Lamarr Award
for Innovation in Entertainment Technology
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The Hedy Lamarr Awards seek to recognize and commemorate women industry leaders who have impacted entertainment technology in a unique manner to drive meaningful change. The 2024 Hedy Lamarr Award for Innovation in Entertainment Technology was presented to Caroline Chan of Intel.
The ninth annual Hedy Lamarr Awards will be presented in November 2025, to coincide with the anniversary of Hedy Lamarr's birth. Nominations are due March 28, 2025.
Download the nomination form
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Congratulations to women from member companies who have recently joined new companies or been promoted to prominent positions. | |
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A+E Networks
Ann McGowan
GM, Digital Platforms
Formerly SVP, New Ventures at Dow Jones
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A+E Networks
Jane Rice
Co-President, Distribution
Formerly EVP Content Distribution and Marketing
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A+E Networks
Michelle Strong
Co-President, Distribution
Formerly EVP Distribution
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FilmRise
Emilia Nuccio
SVP, International Content Sales & Distribution
Formerly VP, International Sales
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Lionsgate
Amelia Rogers
EVP, Content Strategy Development & Integrated Multi-Platform Marketing, Motion Picture Group
Formerly SVP, Global Marketing & Content Strategy, Motion Picture Group
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Did a female executive recently join or receive a promotion at your company, or were they honored for any industry awards?
Email cayla@degonline.org to recognize them in our next newsletter!
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“You’re trying to look forward. And at the same time, you’re trying to create stories that feel familiar. So you’re moving into the future, but you’re maintaining a sense of familiarity. I think that’s the hardest balance.”
-Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm, on the challenges of running Lucasfilm, when fans of the original Star Wars trilogy measure everything against it and don’t see the business need of broadening the franchise Disney paid so much for.
Read more
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Fast Forward Awards 2025: Katherine Pond — Making Connections
Media Play News
Pond was selected for her role as a key driver in the connected-TV (CTV) realm. She heads distribution, content acquisition, programming, platform partnerships and marketing at Vizio, and has played a key role in getting Vizio to leverage opted-in platform data to gain insight into what consumers want to watch and make the right content choices for Vizio’s WatchFree+ FAST service. “I genuinely believe I have the best job in the world,” she says. “I say that all the time. And what I like the most about my job is the diversity and complexity of the things that I work on. I’m fortunate to work across a variety of verticals spanning business development, content acquisition, consumer marketing, programming, and technical account management. It keeps my mind sharp. I am constantly learning something new. I’m constantly trying to solve new problems.” Read more
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Investing In Women’s Sports
Bloomberg ($)
The growth of Women’s sports leagues such as the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) has attracted significant investment and attention. Angel City FC Founder and Monarch Collective Managing Partner Kara Nortman explains the significance of the rise of women’s sports on “Bloomberg Markets.” Watch the video
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Female Actors Finally Achieve Parity With Men As Leads In The Top-Grossing Films of 2024
Deadline
In 2024 the percentage of top-grossing films featuring female protagonists matched the percentage of films with male protagonists for the first time in recent history. According to the latest installment of Dr. Martha Lauzen‘s annual It’s a Man’s (Celluloid) World report, 42% of the 100 top-grossing films domestically had female protagonists while another 42% had male protagonists. Of the remainder, 16% featured ensembles. Read more
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Meet the Investor Behind Billionaire Melinda French Gates’ Bets on Women-Led Funds and Startups
CNBC
Melinda French Gates has committed $2 billion to promote women’s rights and economic mobility. In 2015, she set up her family office, Pivotal Ventures, to support these causes not only through philanthropy but also through investing in women-led funds and startups that serve women. Those investments are managed by Erin Harkless Moore, who joined Pivotal Ventures in 2020 from investment advisory Cambridge Associates. “We want to prove that investments in women can generate best-in-class returns and performance while advancing social process alongside that,” Harkless Moore told CNBC. Read more
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Women Watching Women Watching Women
New York Times ($)
Some of the most memorable movies that I’ve seen lately are from female filmmakers who are also clearly thinking about women’s bodies and helping expand what kinds of women we are seeing onscreen. One such movie I keep returning to is Gia Coppola’s “The Last Showgirl,” a recently released drama set on the frayed edges of Las Vegas. In a scene that keeps playing in my head, a cocktail waitress, Annette — played by a soulful Jamie Lee Curtis — climbs atop a small platform in the casino where she works and begins dancing. As slot machines ping around her, she slowly gyrates to the 1980s hit “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” Annette looks like she’s in her own world. She looks glorious. Read more
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY | |
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Pop Quiz: How Much Do You Know About International Women’s Day and Gender Equity in the Workplace?
Fisher Phillips
People around the globe will celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8 – which also happens to fall during Women’s History Month in the United States and a few other countries. As we take the time to honor women in history, leadership, the workplace, and our personal lives, we thought it would be fun to test our knowledge on the subject. Take our quiz to see how much you know about IWD and gender equity in the workplace. Take the quiz
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How Women Can Steer Towards Growing Industries and Companies
McKinsey & Company
Although skills can be built without changing jobs, they are developed and recognized the most when an individual is promoted to a new role. And so the gender gap in job moves or promotions is a long-hidden driver of the gap between women’s and men’s incomes over the course of their careers. Companies can take important steps to fix the broken rung by making sure employees are getting equal opportunities for leadership and promotion. But waiting for companies to change is not a strategy. In the meantime, women can take individual action to build their own experience capital. Read more
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Leading On Your Own Terms: How Women Of Color Are Redefining Success
Forbes ($)
Kamilah Martin (pictured), the founder of Katalyst, is an entrepreneur, former executive, and advocate for independent women of color consultants has spent years working with highly qualified women leaving senior roles and supporting their transition to consulting. She says, “High-performing women leaders aren’t disappearing from the workforce—they’re redefining it. The organizations that embrace the fractional and independent workforce will thrive in an era where trust, agility, and innovation matter most. We can all stay clenched to the “old ways” or we can evolve.” Read more
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