LOS ANGELES — In the late 1990s, Dan Lin was a 25-year-old Harvard MBA student with no Hollywood connections when he joined Warner Bros. as an intern under film executive Lorenzo DiBonaventura.
The Taipei, Taiwan-born producer of "It" and "The Lego Movie" credits early mentors, including DiBonaventura and Alan Horn, for launching and supporting his career in an industry obsessed with who-you-know small talk.
And this, Lin notes, was before diversity and inclusion became major talking points for the entertainment business amid #OscarsSoWhite, the murder of George Floyd and the Stop Asian Hate movement.
