Last year, Janet Mock made her directorial debut with the popular FX series Pose. Now, she’s making history as the first trans woman of color to sign an overall deal with Netflix, where she’ll direct and produce a slate of projects for the streaming giant.
“This deal is so bonkers,” she announced in a video posted to Netflix’s Strong Black Lead vertical. “I, of course, will be writing and directing and developing a few hush hush projects that I can’t really talk about, but one of them is a half-hour drama and another is a college series. So I’m really excited for that.”
According to Variety, Mock has signed a three year multimillion-dollar, which will give the streaming giant rights to her television series and first-look option on feature films. Mock will also executive produce and direct Ryan Murphy’s upcoming series Hollywood, which Murphy previously described as “a love letter to the Golden Age of Tinseltown.” Even though she’s heading over to Netflix, Mock will continue to direct and write on Pose.
“This is the first kind of deal of its kind for a trans person, no less a trans woman of color,” she continued in the video. “You know 84% of Americans say that they don’t know and or work with a trans person, and so there’s potential now with Netflix’s worldwide audience to introduce millions, hundreds of millions of viewers to trans people and showing people who may not understand us that we can tell our own stories.”
Source: ELLE
