Alana Mayo is 38 years old. She's Black, queer and a movie industry trailblazer who took over Orion Pictures in 2020. Now, she's restarting the studio and green lighting projects like 'Till' which has gotten rave reviews from critics.
, which has gotten critical raves for its depiction of civil rights martyr Emmet Till and his mother, and a high school romantic comedy that started streaming on Amazon this summer.about making an upbeat story starring an empowered teen trans heroine:
Greenlighting movies like these is a mission for the young studio executive who's positioned to be a new face of Hollywood gatekeeping. Alana Mayo grew up in a Chicago suburb, and while she studied film and creative writing at Columbia University, she started to realize something about the movies she'd grown up loving.
Like a lot of people in Hollywood, Mayo is connected to that system through her family. Her dad was a top executive at Radio One and her mom worked as a paralegal in entertainment law. But in spite of her access to the top tiers of the industry, Mayo rose in a world with very few people who looked like her.and that was my first time ever seeing a Black woman in a position of authorship and power," Mayo said.
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