The Georgia & Global Film Industry: The Atlanta Production Imperative

111 James P Brawley Drive Southwest,Atlanta GA 30314

18 March, 2022

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Shaping the film industry to provide a living wage for all its workforce and be equitably inclusive of the Black and Brown community. Atlanta is now home to the largest filmmaking industry in the United States, an industry being shaped by disparities of high earnings and low wages. At the core this conversation is how this growth industry can be made to provide a living wage for all its workforce, and be equitably inclusive of the Black and Brown community, to become an engine of creation of solid middle-class family life in Atlanta? ICLS introducing its research agenda to engage the Georgia & Global Film Industry in assessing and developing successful pipelines and training resources for local African American citizens to work in film productions across the state of Georgia and more broadly across the Globe. During the panel we will address: What strategies does the film industry need to consider for more diversity, equity, and inclusion above and below the line? How can Atlanta be racially inclusive, equitably paid with other sites, and still be a preferred site?What cities or programs can serve as models for more participation in film production by black students and resident of Atlanta & GA, what are the takeaway lessons, and are those models applicable elsewhere?The number of productions increased to an impressive 2.9B from 2017 to 2019, what’s driving the exponential growth of the industry and how are local black citizens reaping the economic benefits of this growth?Sponsored by Morehouse International Comparative Labor Studies (ICLS) Initiative of the Department of Sociology in recognition of the 76th Annual Family Institute.