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Alum Mollye Asher has launched The Population, an indie production company focused on film and TV projects by or about women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ and other underrepresented groups. Asher started it with Emmy nominee Mynette Louie and Derek Nquyen.
Their first film, I Carry You With Me, had its world premiere at this year’s Sundance, winning the Audience Award and Innovator Award. Deadline reports that The Population’s upcoming projects include Catch the Fair One - Grad Film alumnus Josef Kubota Wladyka’s film about a boxer who orchestrates her own abduction - a feminist terror pic based on a harrowing true survival story in Mexico, and a true-crime series set among the Asian American and working-class communities in Detroit.
Read more at Deadline.