Commitment to Change
Click here to read a message from the AICP National Board of Directors.
AICP presents Zoom webinars highlighting organizations that exist to create opportunities across the spectrum of filmmaking, advertising and marketing for people of color, specifically the Black community. As a major part of the AICP’s commitment to this mission, we are taking away the perceived barriers for why we can’t find diverse talent to fill our ranks. Viewers will have an opportunity to invest in an organization that will make your company better and make good on those pledges to do your part. The webinars will be open to the entire industry, not just the AICP membership. The ultimate goal of these presentations is to facilitate the action required for companies across our industry to move towards lasting change.
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This Commitment to Change webinar featured BWA Studios, which strives to build equity in the animation industry by consciously hiring people of color, nonbinary people, and other underrepresented professionals.
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Presenters:
Sheila R. Brown, Vice President, Equity & Inclusion, AICP
Taylor Shaw, Founder and CEO, BWA Studios
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The Commercial Directors Diversity Program (CDDP) is a joint effort of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and the AICP. Its mission is to foster awareness and increase directing opportunities for women and other historically underrepresented groups of people through a targeted program of outreach, mentorship and exposure.
Each year five fellows go through a series of workshops, are paired with a mentoring production company, culminating in the direction of a spec spot.
The program recently completed its fourth cycle, and the Fellows’ spec spots premiered at an industry Showcase.
Meet these up-and-coming talents to the commercial and advertising world. You’ll also hear about the entry process for the 2023 Program Cycle.
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The Commercial Directors Diversity Program (CDDP) is a joint effort of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and the AICP. Its mission is to foster awareness and increase directing opportunities for women and other historically underrepresented groups of people through a targeted program of outreach, mentorship and exposure.
Each year five fellows go through a series of workshops, are paired with a mentoring production company, culminating in the direction of a spec spot. The program recently completed its third cycle, and the Fellows’ spec spots premiered at an industry Showcase. Join us to view the work and meet these up-and-coming talents to the commercial and advertising world. You’ll also hear about the entry process for the 2022 Program Cycle.
AICP is pleased to announce the launch of its collaboration with the payroll community to create a legally vetted, standardized, and effective methodology for production companies to track employment demographic data that can be shared with advertising agencies and marketers. Please click here to view a sample report.
This presentation will focus on how the initiative works, as well as offer the industry at large the opportunity to ask questions.
The organization presenting provides access to careers in production via training and education.
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Presenting Organization:
Hollywood CPR
This month we are featuring Venice Arts, which works with low-income young people (10-18) to prepare them for careers in the arts, including photography, filmmaking, and animation.
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Presenting Organizations:
Venice Arts
The organization presenting provides access to students and young people via internships and training for careers across the filmmaking spectrum, including a pathway to union membership.
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Presenting Organization:
The CineCares Foundation
The organizations highlighted provide opportunities and access to the filmmaking process. Both groups hope that through exposure and hands-on learning, participants can forge meaningful and long-lasting careers in media.
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Presenting Organizations:
Bridgebuilder Cinematic Arts Program
Vets2Set
This installment focuses on the importance of mentorship in building careers, achieving goals, and gaining access. Brittany Franklin and Ian Grant, Co-Founders of Minorities in Film (MiFILM) along with Gloria Pitagorsky (Heard City) and Christa Thompson (KNUCKLEHEAD), the co-chairs of the AICP Equity & Inclusion Mentorship subcommittee, will discuss how AICP members and the industry at large can embrace mentorship opportunities to create change.
Find out more about becoming a mentor to a MiFILM participant, and how you can work with the AICP Mentoring Program to make a difference
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To join MiFILM, please click here.
For more information on the AICP Mentoring Program, please click here.
This installment focuses on Sporas, a network for cinematographers and camera crew, as well as an update on Double the Line, an AICP initiative that encourages inclusion in production and post production, particularly at the senior level.
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Presenting Organization:
Sporas
AICP's Double the Line
Staff Me Up
This installment focuses on two organizations offering opportunity and access to creative fields across the advertising and entertainment spectrum, including animation, design, production, post and music.
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Presenting Organizations:
E4 Youth
.movtogether
This installment focuses on organizations that provide access and education to filmmakers forging careers across the production industry in above-the-line and below-the-line categories.
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Presenting Organization:
Academy Gold
This installment focuses on two organizations offering access, education and inspiration to young people planning for careers in advertising, marketing, production and post production. Each organization helps provide a foundation for creative talent to position themselves for success and they embark on their education and future careers.
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Presenting Organizations:
Free Spirit Media
Incorp[HER]ated
This installment focuses on two organizations offering access, insight and opportunity to talented artists. Through programs, workshops and mentorship opportunities, these organizations open doors for those hoping to forge careers in the creative fields.
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Presenting Organizations:
Minorities in Film
re:imagine/ATL
This installment focuses on two organizations offering opportunities for exposure and education for the next generation of talent entering the production and post production fields.
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Presenting Organizations:
Black Girl Film School
Ghetto Film School (GFS)
The presenting organizations will offer insight and tools for finding and hiring talent across the production and post production spectrum.
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Presenting Organizations:
Change the Lens
Pipelines
The presenting organizations offer insight and tools for providing access, exposure and opportunity to underrepresented talent across the filmmaking, advertising and marketing landscape.
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Presenting Organizations:
Bid Black
The Marcus Graham Project
The programs featured show how companies can donate time and energy to provide meaningful access and education about the advertising and marketing industry to create the next generation of change leaders. This includes mentoring, access to internships, as well as information about how the industry operates.
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Presenting Organizations:
Made in Her Image
The Entertainment Industry College Outreach Program & HBCU LA
Commercial Directors Diversity Program (CDDP)
The programs featured offer participants training and job placement in the production and post industries.
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Presenting Organizations:
Made in New York PA Training Program
Made in New York Post Production Training Program
ManifestWorks
Streetlights