A study says that motion picture and video production was one of the hardest-hit creative sectors with a loss of nearly 92,000 U.S. jobs.
The 2021 Otis College of Art and Design Report on the Creative Economy, detailing the impact of COVID-19 on California’s creative sectors, reveals that motion picture and video production has been one of the hardest-hit industries in the creative sector with a loss of nearly 92,000 jobs nationwide. The report, released Thursday by Otis College in a virtual conference, said the state of California accounts for roughly 60,000 jobs lost. Los Angeles County alone makes up almost 50,000 of the total jobs lost in the sector. Between February 2020 and December 2020, total job loss in the “creative economy” workforce reached 13.
