290 events for Producers Guild members were held in 2023, including:

• 108 networking events
• 55 committee meetings
• 35 screenings featuring Q&As with producers
• 32 webinars/panels/workshops
• 30 straight screenings, and
• 30 social events, including holiday celebrations on both coasts

42% were in-person, 58% online.

Professional & Educational Webinars

Professional and educational webinars are recorded and available for replay on either our member-exclusive Vimeo channel or the PGA’s YouTube channel. Some recent notable member-exclusive sessions include:

“PGA Conversation with Matt Stoller on Media Consolidation” (in-person)
Featuring: Matt Stoller (Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project and the author of Simon and Schuster’s Goliath: The 100 Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy)

“The Great Contraction and the Business of Non-Fiction” (virtual)
Featuring: Kellen Alberstone (UTA unscripted agent) and Peter Hamilton (Documentary Business).

“A Producer’s Journey from the Screen to Immersive Experience” (virtual)
Featuring: Oscar and PGA Award winning producer J. Miles Dale (The Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley), Corey Ross (President of Lighthouse Immersive Studios), Dorothy McKim (Producer, Creative Legacy at Walt Disney Animation Studios), Alejandro Machorro (CEO at COCOLAB International) and Cesar Moheno Pla (COCOLAB International) and Joanna Popper (Entertainment & Tech Executive, Chief Metaverse Officer

“Financial Planning for Producers” (virtual)
Featuring: John Froberg, CFP® and Anna Stolina, CPA, Business Manager

“Producers on Producing Sustainably with Ian Cooper and Jonathan Wang” (virtual)
Featuring: Ian Cooper (Nope, Candyman, Us) and Jonathan Wang (Everything Everywhere All at Once, Swiss Army Man, The Legend of Ochi)

“Producing with AI and Data” (virtual)
Featuring: Tobias Queisser (Co-founder and CEO of Cinelytic), Jonathan Bronfman (Co-founder and co-president of Monsters, Aliens, Robots and Zombies VFX (MARZ), and Céline Udriot (Chief Operating Officer of Largo.ai)

PGA Awards: “A Roundtable Conversation with the Documentary Motion Picture Nominees” (virtual)

PGA Awards: “A Roundtable Conversation with Non-Fiction Television Nominees” (virtual)

Networking Events

Dozens of networking events take place throughout the year - both virtually and in-person. Regularly calendared events include:

• Monthly Happy Hour (LA, NY, Atlanta)
• Monthly Morning Mingle (LA, NY)
• Regional Happy Hours (DC, Bay Area)
• Monthly LPs Who Lunch hosted by the Physical Production Committee (virtual)
• Monthly Meetings hosted by the Physical Production Committee (virtual)
  • Previous special guests include: Liz Sayre (EVP Physical Production, Searchlight Pictures), John Corser (SVP Production & Production Technology, NBCUniversal), Kevin Fortson (former EVP Physical Production and Administration, Warner Horizon), Scott Neustadter (EP, Daisy Jones & the Six), Georgia Kacandes (EP/UPM, Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, The Wolf of Wall Street), I. Marlene King (Showrunner, Pretty Little Liars & EP, Famous in Love)
• Monthly Tea Time hosted by the AAPI Working Group (virtual)
  • Previous special guests include: Walter Hamada (President of DC Films/Warner Bros.), Bing Chen (Gold House), Janet Yang (Over the Moon), Christina Oh (Producer, Minari), Steve Tao (CW, VP Current Programming), Melvin Mar (EP, Fresh off the Boat), Julie Oh (Producer, tick tick Boom), Christina Chou (CAA lit agent), and Janice Chua (Imagine TV, VP)
• Bi-Monthly Coffee Breaks hosted by the Women’s Impact Network (virtual)
  • Previous special guests include: Janet Brown (President, Gunpowder & Sky), Toni Judkins (SVP, Original Programming and Development, Mahogany), Rona Dana (Director of Business Development, Tyler Perry Studios), Mitra Ahouraian (production attorney), Taylor K. Shaw (Founder & CEO of BWA Studios), Nikki Marshall (Warner/Chappell Music)
• Quarterly Mixers with WGAE (NY)
• Quarterly New Member Welcomes (virtual)
• Bi-Annual Networking Cocktails (NY)
• Bi-Annual Documentary & Non-Fiction Mixers (LA, NY)
  • Previous events hosted by Imagine Entertainment and This Machine Filmworks
• Annual Member Breakfast with the PGA Awards Nominees for the Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures (LA)
• Annual Holiday Party (LA, NY, Atlanta)
• Annual Summer Bash (LA)
• Annual PGA Dodgers Day (LA)
• Networking Receptions at various film festivals including Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival

Networking on PGA's Slack Workspace

More than 2,000 PGA members are in the Guild’s Slack workspace. It’s the most immediate way for members to seek advice, look for resources or find a potential collaborator. Popular channels include: #virtual-production, #find-a-collaborator, #post-production, #jobs, #doc-forum, and many more.

Mentoring

One-on-One Mentoring Program

The program promotes member-to-member advice, support and mentoring. Mentors offer a single 1-hour virtual coffee within a six-week period of applying. The program is offered twice annually and focuses on strategic career advice to help producers make a meaningful connection with a fellow PGA member. Past mentors include: Hend Baghdady, Tyson Bidner, Ian Bryce, Jason Clark, Holly Edwards, Mike Farah, David Friendly, Amy J. Kaufman, Erin O’Malley, Gary Michael Walters, Laura Michalchyshyn, Jeanette Volturno, and more.

Mentoring Roundtables

Virtual mentoring roundtable sessions began during the launch of our virtual programming in March 2020. These are intimate opportunities for members to connect one-on-one with mentors during a 90-minute session. Mentors from 2023 included: Kristin Burr, Erin Gamble, Lucy Kitada, and Caddy Vanasirikul.

Member Committees and Member Working Groups

PGA has more than a dozen Member Committees and Member Working Groups which any member of the Guild can participate in. Member Committees and Member Working Groups include the following:

• Animation
• Documentary and Non-Fiction
• Employment
• Events
• International
• Physical Production
• Post Production
• Open Working Groups under the One Guild Task Force
  • Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI)
  • LGBTQ+
  • Producers of Color
  • Women’s Impact Network (WIN)

Hire PGA

At the start of the pandemic, we launched Hire PGA in collaboration with the Employment Committee in an effort to help get members back to work as quickly as possible. Some positions shared in 2023 included: Producer at Zeno Learning; Sustainability Manager at Hearst Media; Production Manager for a Nat Geo/ Disney+ series; and Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) – at California State University, Northridge (CSUN).

Producers Guild Screeners hosted by Indee

PGA members have access to view screeners for awards consideration on an exclusive PGA platform hosted by Indee. This platform provides a secure and quality viewing experience for PGA members with native apps across all major platforms such as AppleTV, iOS, Roku, and Amazon Fire. All PGA members, regardless of location, have full access to digitally screen the yearly awards contenders.

Discounts on Services and Events

PGA members receive member-exclusive discounts to a variety of services and industry events. Current services available to members for discounts include:

Delta Air Lines
IMDB Pro
Artistry in Sound
Men’s Warehouse
First Entertainment Credit Union
Freehand Hotels
Preferred Hotels & Resorts
Bitmax Media Services
The Hollywood Reporter
Variety
TerraCycle
Budget Rental Car
Assemble
Final Draft, Inc.
Largo AI
RollCredits
Saturation
Scriptation
Showbiz Software Store
Yamdu
Center Theatre Group Productions
Working Advantage
Corpay

Contract Services Administration Training Trust Fund Safety Pass (CSATF) classes

The Safety Pass Program was conceived by the Motion Picture and Television Industry-Wide Labor-Management Safety Committee as a means of addressing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's requirements that employees be trained in the safe use of equipment and work practices on their jobs. Because of the freelance nature of many motion picture and television assignments, the Safety Pass Program provides valuable assistance in meeting the training needs of the Industry by providing industry-wide general safety training.

The classes offered include:

General Safety Training/Injury & Illness Prevention Program (A) (1 hour)
Environmental Safety (A2) (3 hours)
Harassment Prevention 2 (HP2) (2 hours)
Hazard Communication (P) (3 hours)
Confined Space Safety (L) (1 hour)
Noise Exposure (K) (1 hour)
Bloodborne Pathogens (H) (1.5 hours)
Respiratory Protection (I) (1.5 hours)
Location Safety (Z1) (2 hours)
Hand and Power Tool Safety (E) (1.5 hours)
Compressed Gas and Fuel Cylinder (N)
Environmental Safety (A2)
Excavation and Trench Safety (L2)
Fall Protection (D)
Firearm Safety for the Entertainment Industry (S)
Hours of Service (HOS)
Lockout/Tagout (M)
>Scaffold Use (G)
Traditional Insert Car Safety (B5)
Welding and Cutting (J)
Workplace Elec. Safety: Facilities & Other Permanent Installations (V2)

Produced By magazine

Published quarterly, articles in Produced By can also be found here.

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PGA Initiatives

The Producers Guild is involved in several initiatives which benefit not only its members but the wider community of producers.

Independent Production Safety Initiative (IPSI)

The Independent Production Safety Initiative (IPSI) provides free training and legal services to productions to create a safe and harassment-free environment on set. Through the initiative, productions you can apply for free on-set training, legal services and more for your indie production and access free resources for ensuring a safe, harassment-free workplace.

Green Production Guide (GPG)

The Green Production Guide (GPG) is the premier industry online toolkit designed to reduce the film, television, and streaming industry’s carbon footprint and environmental impact. The GPG was established in 2010 in a joint effort between the Producers Guild of America Foundation’s PGA Green Committee and a major studios partner group, now known as the Sustainable Production Alliance (SPA).

The site features a worldwide database of vendors that provide sustainable goods and services for film, television, and streaming production. The GPG also offers tools and resources to help implement a sustainable plan for any size or kind of production. These tools include the Production Environmental Accounting Report (PEAR), which calculates a production's carbon footprint; the Production Environmental Actions Checklist (PEACH), which details best practices for each department on a production; Sustainable Production Infographics, which provide helpful visual guides to ensure best practices in the office, on location, and on stage; and sample memos, signs and flyers to help communicate sustainability efforts to cast and crew.

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PGA’s Social Media Accounts

Please make sure you’re following PGA’s social media handles for the latest information about PGA programs and events (those open only to members as well as those open to the industry) as well as important resources from community partners.

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/producers-guild-of-america

Instagram - @producersguild

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/producersguild

Threads - @producersguild