Our Work in 2025 + Wishing You a Happy New Year
Dear PGA Member:
As we reflect on the last year, we’d like to take a moment to acknowledge what we’ve accomplished together in 2025—in spite of the tremendous industry disruptions and personal and professional losses. We share this as a reminder of the strength, commitment, and resiliency of our community of producers.
There were 260 events produced nationwide in 2025, including the annual Producers Guild Awards and Produced By Conference. At the core of our advocacy work is a simple principle: producing is a job. The reminder below highlights some of the Guild's efforts to amplify and elevate the unique contributions producers bring to this industry.
Standing Together as One Community
- As we approach the one-year anniversary of the devastating California wildfires, we are reminded of how quickly and generously members stepped forward to support the Producers Guild of America Members Fund. (Special thanks to those members that contributed.) Through our collaboration with the Entertainment Community Fund and participation in an industry-wide coalition, we continue to offer access to supportive resources and services to those impacted.
- From California to New York, we joined forces with a powerful coalition of industry partners to improve and expand film tax incentives to protect and promote domestic production and jobs. In California alone, that work more than doubled California’s annual entertainment incentive to $750 million.
Providing Concrete Resources to Improve the Culture of Productions
- Amidst dramatic changes to the business we all love, we continue our fight for healthcare. Every producer and producing team member deserves access to healthcare. Thank you to the production companies that have already signed on to PGA’s signature Healthcare Initiative.
- Through our collaboration with the Hollywood Commission, we’ve expanded and strengthened PGA’s Set Etiquette Training which offers participating independent productions free harassment-prevention training. It’s now extended to provide access to U.S. independent productions signatory to the I.A.T.S.E. Low Budget Theatrical Agreement.
- We’ve worked closely with the Independent Film & Television Alliance® (IFTA®) and SAG-AFTRA for the past several years to identify solutions to some of the challenges independent producers face when working with the union (e.g., residual bonds, CAMs). During this year’s AFM, we collaborated on a session offering the union an opportunity to share on-the-record “everything producers need to know to work with SAG-AFTRA successfully.” The session is available on our YouTube here.
- We released PGA’s Sustainability Tool Kit and are well underway to a 2.0 version in collaboration with the Inter-Guild and Union Sustainability Alliance. (Watch for PGA’s new microsite in early 2026.)
Advocating for a Sustainable Future for Producers
- We will always fight for free speech, and will proudly continue to exercise it to fight for members under attack.
- We are taking proactive steps to protect livelihoods and artistic integrity. This includes by providing guidance to our members and speaking directly with our industry partners, AI companies and policymakers to protect creativity and intellectual property. It also includes providing careful analysis of how producers will be impacted by the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery. We invite members interested in supporting the Guild’s work in these areas to please contact us at advocacy@producersguild.org.
PGA’s Recent Statement on AI
"As producers, our creative contributions and intellectual property are the foundation of our work and an essential part of the entire entertainment ecosystem. Protecting that IP isn’t optional, it’s critical to building a future where our industry can truly thrive.
The rapid acceleration of generative AI brings extraordinary opportunities, but it also introduces real challenges. Rights, credits, and creative contributions must be transparent and protected. The Guild is committed to ensuring that emerging technologies serve producers, not the other way around, and that they are deployed in ways that preserve the standards, authorship, and accountability that define professional work across the industry."
PGA’s Recent Statement on the Sale of Warner Bros. Discovery
“As we have said in our previous statements, producers are rightfully concerned about the potential acquisition of one of our industry’s most storied and meaningful studios.
The Producers Guild of America is in close contact with our members, other guilds and unions, policymakers, regulators, antitrust experts, and the parties involved to understand the specifics of the offers on the table for Warner Bros. Discovery.
We call on Paramount and Netflix to back their promises with contractual commitments, and encourage regulators to closely examine both offers to ensure they protect the livelihoods of producers and other industry workers, guarantee meaningful theatrical distribution, empower consumers with choice, foster creativity, and uphold freedom of speech.”
Supporting the Next Generation of Producers
- PGA remains steadfast in our commitment to programs which support inclusivity. This year marked the fifth anniversary of PGA Create, our professional development lab supporting creative producers from underrepresented backgrounds. Read more about our 2025 class of PGA Create Fellows here.
- Since 2005, the PGA has been committed to honoring Debra Hill’s legacy by encouraging and cultivating the next generation of producers and executives. Our 2025 Debra Hill Fellowship recipient will be presented during February’s producing team event for the PGA Awards.
Thank you for your engagement, your advocacy and your trust. We are proud to fight alongside you on important issues impacting producers. As we turn a hopeful eye toward the year ahead, we look forward to what we will build together.
Wishing you and yours a safe, healthy and happy new year.
Producers Guild of America