* The Community Producer Project *

Invested fan communities can transform everything from funding to production and distribution to mobilizing for a good cause. Many people champion "democratized entertainment," but models like these require building real communities and fandoms safely. Managing healthy direct-to-fan ecosystems requires a new kind of expertise.

Introducing a new role

We're creating a new role in the creative team: the Community Producer. This person is "above the line" on par with other producers/ directors/ artists and has the specialized skills to cultivate, strengthen, and manage a community right from the inception of the project.

Making this real

Our first step is gathering a team of experts across impact entertainment, fandom cultivation, governance, and movement building to design the curriculum for Community Producers. Once established, we will train a cohort and seed projects with this new role through our organizational partners: Seed&Spark and Popular Demand, with Kinema and the Center for Cultural Power, and support from Pop Culture Collab.