Ava DuVernay teams up with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard to create massive hiring network

LOS ANGELES — In 2021, filmmaker Ava DuVernay launched the much-heralded Array Crew, a searchable database of below-the-line talent.
It was designed as a mechanism to diversify film and TV productions by connecting women, people of color and other underrepresented workers with producers, entertainment executives and those with hiring power. Every major studio and streaming service signed on as partners to finance the project.

Array Crew became a spoke in DuVernay’s expanding arts and social impact hub Array Alliance, the nonprofit arm of her company Array. It began with 500 names, quickly growing to more than 11,000 verified industry professionals. In all, more than 900 films, television shows, commercials and video projects have used the service, which is free to crew members. [Read more].