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ECF provides emergency financial assistance, industry-specific workshops, career guidance, mental health-focused classes and support groups and more to entertainment industry workers across the country.
The landscape for TV writers after the end of the writers strike is grim amid the industry's larger downturn.
The Hollywood Arts Collective, an affordable housing complex for entertainment workers in Los Angeles, opened in April near the start of the WGA strike.
The Hollywood Arts Collective, an affordable housing complex for entertainment workers in Los Angeles, opened in April near the start of the WGA strike.
It's been nearly five months since the Hollywood writers strike began and more than two months since actors joined them. Soon, the walkouts could break historic records. With writers contract talks resuming, entertainment industry workers have turned on the side hustles to pay their bills. Ryan Meyer, a lighting expert with gaffing and director of photography experience, says he and others have become handymen. He recently lit an actor's home foyer and helped a neighbor with a busted Jacuzzi. Others have turned to friends for writing work, or they've headed to Trader Joe's or back to bartendin...