One month in the past, Future Outreach launched its Goals & Future® Movie/TV Workforce Program – Leisure Trade Apprenticeship Program. Since then, this system has positioned 21 apprentices ages 16 to 24 into union and non-union leisure jobs in Chicago. Starting in June, they’ve been chosen at CineCity Studios Chicago, Central Metropolis Productions’ Stellar Awards, CAN TV, Theater 47 and RGE Leisure/APC Theater.
The group’s founder, Hollywood/TV producer Danita E. Patterson, has coined the pipeline she’s created by her program as “Midwest Hollywood.”
“I had a imaginative and prescient and a dream many years in the past of impacting the following era. On day one, seeing the faces of those 21 apprentices introduced me to tears as a result of my dream has come true full circle,” shared Patterson.
As a part of this system’s 14-part course curriculum, apprentices met with the solid of Showtime’s “The Chi,” accrued 55 hours price of coaching, invited IATSE (Worldwide Alliance of Theatrical Stage Workers) native unions and management professionals for profession panels, set etiquette, crew constructing actions, which produced two same-day shorts.
This system will stretch till September 13, 2025.
The wait listing for Future Outreach’s second Cohort, which is able to start November 2025 and proceed till March 2026 is already rising too.
A showcase for this system will happen when on Saturday, July 19, 2025, Future Outreach hosts its DO! Media Day from 10:00 am to three:00 pm at Cine Metropolis Studios Chicago, 2429 W. 14th St. The occasion will embrace a press convention beginning at 11:00 am, which is able to embrace grantors, stakeholders and apprentice testimonials to speak concerning the successes apprentices have skilled throughout their participation. All accessible press are inspired to attend.
Future dreamers and apprentices fascinated about making use of for this Goals & Future® Workforce – Leisure Trade Apprenticeship Program cohort can even look out for open registration and recruitment in October 2025.
