The Hollywood Commission, the research and advocacy organization chaired by Anita Hill and founded by board members Kathleen Kennedy and Nina Shaw, launched its second entertainment industry survey on Thursday. The survey is designed to examine and explore the culture of abuse and power inequality across the film and TV industry.
Survey is now live hollywoodentertainmentsurvey.org, and the Hollywood Commission encourages all members of the community to participate in its anonymous questionnaire. The commission has also expanded the demographics of its survey and will additionally focus on people working in the gaming sector.
The Hollywood Commission launched in 2017 at the height of the #MeToo movement and released its first industry-wide survey in 2020. It polled 9,650 entertainment workers in Hollywood who, at 65%, felt overwhelmingly that even in light of calls for reform, individuals like producers and directors in powerful Hollywood were not responsible for harassing someone with less power. will be held. Furthermore, of those who experienced harassment, only a fraction (28%) actually reported it to their employers, believing that nothing would be done or believed.
The new survey is specifically described as a “temperature check” to identify what progress has been made and where work still needs to be done. It also seeks to double its number of respondents to 20,000. Some of the survey’s new questions will assess the ways in which people experience colorism or what resources and support are needed for survivors and victims of retaliation to return to the industry.
“As we seek to determine what systematic progress we have made over the past several years, the second Hollywood Commission Entertainment Survey is more significant and in many ways consequential,” Hill said in a statement. “With this new edition, we expect to double the participation of the first survey, which will help provide the insights we need as we continue to focus our efforts on our next phase of work. Key participation is this.” We need to hear directly from all workers about their experiences. We look forward to working with our partners to encourage everyone in the industry to respond and participate safely and anonymously.”
Since launching its first survey, the Hollywood Commission has held anti-bullying training sessions and programs specifically targeted at small, independent production companies to prevent and root out abuse, environments that have fewer opportunities to report abuse. There may not be proper infrastructure for
The 2022 questionnaire is open to entertainment workers in the television and film, commercials, live theatre, music, broadcast news, talent representation, public relations, corporate settings and gaming sectors from countries including the United States, Canada, Mexico, the UK. Countries across Asia, Oceania and the South Pacific.
It will be open for submissions until November 27, 2022, and the results will be released in early 2023. Survey responses will focus the Commission’s efforts over the next several years – informing the issues that it will raise for the community and indicating where the organization will prioritize resources.
You can watch TheWrap’s 2020 conversation with Anita Hill and Nina Shaw about some of the survey results here. View full results of the survey for 2019-20 Here,
