For three years, the studio’s motion picture group has quietly been doing the work to diversify its below-the-line crews via its Production Inclusion Coalition program.
Unlike many other studio diversity initiatives, PIC isn’t about workshops and master classes. It trains its participants and provides them industry connections through directly hiring them for Lionsgate movies, and paying them like any other member of the crew. “It was my first real film job, and I was thrown into it from zero to 100.
“We actually had check-ins every couple of weeks to make sure everything was going okay because being a PA can sometimes be grueling,” says Jesse Hart, who as a Vancouver-based film school graduate had already served as a locations PA for such Hollywood projects shooting in the city, like. “My first experience as a PA, I was thrown out into the end of a cornfield to watch a generator all day. This felt really different.
Adds Barreira, “We are constantly tossing ideas back and forth: Can we put not just an apprentice but a VFX PA on the show? If something sticks, we roll with it.” Another striking characteristic that distinguishes Lionsgate’s PIC program from pipeline diversity initiatives at other studios is that it’s run by executives — many of them white — from the motion picture group, rather than staffers in a diversity department .
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