AMPAS Makes $6M Donation To Help Motion Picture Employees Impacted By COVID-19

The Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences has pledged $6M to assist these movement image trade staff and their households who’ve been effected by the coronavirus.

Of that quantity, $4M shall be distributed to The Actors Fund, which helps under the road staff and performers, and the Movement Image & Tv Fund. AMPAS may also give $2 million to the Academy Basis to assist its grants program.

“The Academy has an extended historical past of supporting our colleagues, significantly throughout essentially the most dire circumstances,” stated Academy President David Rubin. “As we face a pandemic, it’s incumbent upon us to assist these within the movement image group who’re struggling. The shutting down of productions, companies and theaters has had devastating penalties. By contributing financially to The Actors Fund, MPTF, and the Academy Basis’s fantastic grants program, we might help present our prolonged household with desperately wanted help.”

Academy CEO Daybreak Hudson commented, “The Academy’s main focus proper now could be serving to our group make it via this unprecedented disaster. With our donation, The Actors Fund and MPTF can carry emergency providers — together with monetary help, housing, household care and counseling — to extra individuals. Each are long-standing, security web organizations with the experience to mobilize and reply shortly. Moreover, the Academy Basis’s Grants Program will have the ability to proceed its ongoing efforts to supply alternative and funding for deserving, various storytellers in an much more efficient method, and ensure these people really feel supported throughout this time.”

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