In the Chicago spirit of collaboration and solidarity, the newly formed Chicago Media Coalition -- founded by Sisters in Cinema, Full Spectrum Features, Mezcla Media Collective and OTV | Open Television -- is launching a platform to support general operations and strategic partnerships as a development & management commons. This revolutionary model leverages the strengths of the Coalition, individually and collectively, to catalyze the most innovative investment towards a new media infrastructure that is representative of our country’s diversity.

Media is the dominant art form in the United States and is critical to how we understand ourselves as a culture, but the largest mainstream media companies do not represent the country. It is no coincidence that the years preceding the exponential rise of racism, sexism, nationalism and other forms of hate in the mid-2010s were also years when television series and films were less diverse.