Banijay Americas Teams With Best Buy for L.A.-Based Entertainment Career Development Program (Exclusive) - Hollywood Reporter

Banijay Americas and Best Buy are launching a caller programme to supply entree to amusement manufacture careers for precocious schoolhouse students and caller graduates successful Los Angeles.

The world accumulation and organisation elephantine — whose shows see Emmy-winning Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls arsenic good arsenic MasterChef, The Real Housewives of Atlanta and Below Deck — volition make a program astir tv accumulation tailored to participants astatine L.A.’s Best Buy Teen Tech Centers, which supply a abstraction for underserved younker to make skills successful movie production, integer media, audio engineering, augmented and virtual reality, 3-D plan and different technologies done hands-on acquisition and adjacent and big mentorship. The program volition see seminars and job-shadowing opportunities with Hollywood producers, directors, editors and writers.

In addition, Teen Tech Center alumni volition beryllium capable to articulation Banijay Americas’ feeder programme for accumulation assistants, with the accidental to interrogation for these entry-level jobs connected Banijay-produced shows.

“Banijay Americas is thrilled to spouse with Best Buy and its assemblage interaction hub to connection young radical crossed Los Angeles greater entree to the amusement manufacture done experiential learning opportunities and hands-on training, vulnerability to our web of artists and manufacture professionals, and eventually, a constituent of introduction for their archetypal tv jobs,” Banijay Americas enforcement vice president of endeavor inclusion and societal work Karla Pita Loor said successful a statement. “Our enactment with Best Buy reflects our committedness to creating some contented and an manufacture that reflects the affluent diverseness of our assemblage and our city.”

The team-up makes Banijay Americas the archetypal workplace spouse successful the Best Buy Foundation’s Los Angeles Community Impact Hub, its web of 12 L.A.-area Teen Tech Centers built connected a $10 cardinal committedness from the institution and successful concern with the Greater LA Education Fund and the Annenberg Foundation. There are much than 50 Teen Tech Centers nationwide, with the extremity to unfastened 100 by 2025.

“Through the assemblage interaction hub, we are lifting up the adjacent procreation of younker successful Los Angeles with the tools and resources to scope for the stars,” Best Buy vice president of societal interaction Andrea Wood said successful a statement. “This concern volition assistance signifier the aboriginal of the manufacture by creating a nonstop endowment pipeline that gives young radical the accidental to observe and prosecute careers successful the originative economy.”

Best Buy besides precocious formed a partnership with The Hollywood Reporter’s Women successful Entertainment Mentorship Program that includes entree for mentees to the L.A. Community Impact Hub arsenic good arsenic a afloat assistance to Loyola Marymount University for 1 WIE mentee, which volition beryllium presented by Jamie Lee Curtis and Janelle Monae astatine THR’s WIE gala this morning.