Hollywood Is Losing Not Just Jobs but Entire Lineages

The flight of film and television production out of the United States is usually framed in terms of jobs and dollars. And no wonder: entire careers are evaporating at a nauseating rate, with US film and television production down 40 percent in 2024 from its 2022 peak. What gets less attention is a quieter loss: the erosion of an intergenerational workforce. In 2021, I directed an episode of The CW’s . Like many productions of its scale, it shot in Vancouver. It was an ambitious show —…