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Art Directors Guild Suspends Production Design Initiative Program

The Art Directors Guild reported 75% unemployment in its suspension of the Production Design Initiative Program.

Like others in IATSE, ADG members have gone through a particularly hard stretch with loss of work during the pandemic, WGA and SAG strikes, and the current contraction that’s slowed TV and movie production and sent more of it overseas. This is due to multiple reasons, the 2023 strikes, the on-going 2024 labor negotiations, and a once in a generation change within the entertainmentindustry as it searches for new business models to govern its content creation and distribution. Due to an internal technical error, applicants to our Production Design Initiative (PDI) program received an email that had not been edited or fact-checked and was not intended to be widely distributed.

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