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Non-Profit Offers Jobs on Movie Sets
The City and Brooklyn Workforce Innovations will hook low income applicants up with work in film and television.
The prospect is so sweet it sounds like something that could only happen in a movie.
Finish a four-week course and you’ll be given a job in the film industry.
The program is being offered jointly by the Mayor’s Office of Film and a non-profit, the Brooklyn Workforce Innovations.
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The free course will certify students in production assistant work. Previous program cohorts have been granted jobs with major television networks, movie studios and music videos.
Graduates of the course have had credits on big name productions, including NBC’s "30 Rock", HBO’s "Sex and the City" and "Saturday Night Live."
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The idea is to promote diversity, and offer low income and unemployed people a foot in the door of the film industry.
Those who meet the following criteria will qualify:
—Holders of a driver’s license
—Low income, or unemployed applicants with a low income work background
—Eligible to work legally in the U.S.
—NYC residents, who have lived here more than six months and are over the age of 21
See the BWI Web site for more information.
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