Filmmaker Ava DuVernay has partnered with outgoing Warner Bros.
Television chairman Peter Roth to launch Array Crew, a division of Array Alliance.
which will serve as a database to highlight below-the-line talent.The announcement was made in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, where Roth and DuVernay said that Array Crew is in the soft launch stage, but some of Hollywood’s biggest studios already have invested in the project including Sony, Netflix and Disney.The company exists out of the need to connect underrepresented crew members and hiring managers.
Far too often, there is a bridge between the hiring practices of women and people of color behind-the-scenes, and Array Crew hopes to close that gap.DuVernay, who has always made a practice of inclusive hiring on her projects — as executive producer of OWN’s “Queen Sugar,” she chose female directors to helm each episode — said, “The genesis of
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