Inclusive, safe, supportive environments lead not only to a more fulfilling creative project, but also to lasting ethical practices for future creative spaces and beyond.

Below you'll find (a growing list of) tools and resources to support a more ethical set for your projects:

Recorded Ethical Set Series Events from Seed&Spark

Lunch&Learn: Disability Representation On and Off-Screen — Stories from marginalized groups are getting screen time, and that's great! But one group — perhaps the largest — gets the least focus (on screen and on set): the disability community. How is the landscape changing? And what can we, as independent filmmakers, do to foster support on our own films?

Lunch&Learn: The Power of Sensitivity Readers and Cultural Consultants — Join Marcela Davison Avilés (Lead Cultural Consultant for Disney/Pixar's Coco), sensitivity reader and diversity editor Alex Creswick, and Stacey Parshall Jensen (Through the Wilderness LLC, Brickhouse Talent) for a conversation about the new landscape for sensitivity work and how it can improve your films.

Lunch&Learn: Building an Environmentally Sustainable Set — How can we work to reduce our carbon footprint while still making creative strides? In this Lunch&Learn, Stephanie Dawson (founding member of Women Independent Producers, co-chair of the Producer’s Guild East Green Committee, and Climate Reality Leader) and Emellie O'Brien (Founder & CEO, Earth Angel Sets) share their insights on "getting green" behind the scenes!

Lunch&Learn: Building an Inclusive Set for Your Crew — A film set should be a safe space, for everyone involved. How can we ensure production culture is rooted in mutual respect — and inclusive of our entire crew? Explore with Alex Schmider (GLAAD, Disclosure) and Justin Ryan Madriaga (Freelance Assistant Director, DGA).

Creative Sustainability Session: Inclusion Riders — A powerful tool in combatting Hollywood’s lack of diversity, an inclusion rider is legal language filmmakers can embed in their production contracts. Learn how to use them in your own work with the creators of Hollywood’s first inclusion rider: Fanshen Cox, Kalpana Kotagal, Amity Paye, and Dr. Tasmin Plater. 

Lunch&Learn: Building an Inclusive Set for Your Cast — It’s no secret that the work of an actor can involve intense emotional labor. But for some actors, that tension, unfortunately, can also come from their work environment! Casting director Nike Imoru and These/Thems showrunner Gretchen Wylder share their insights on fostering safe, supportive, inclusive sets for cast.

And join the latest event in Seed&Spark's Ethical Set Series on our events page. 

Roadmaps and Information

• Annenberg Inclusion Initiative
• #ChangeHollywood Roadmap
• Hollywood Disability Inclusion Toolkit
• The Racial Bias Built Into Photography
• 13 Steps Towards Green Film Production We Can All Take 
• Green Production Guide (including PEACH and more)
• What the Heck is Sensitivity Reading?
  
  

Crew Databases

• ARRAY CREW 
• Crewvie 
• Editors of Color Database (including Sensitivity Readers!)
• FREE THE WORK 
• IndieVISIBLE Entertainment
• PA Studio West
• WGA Directory, Writer's Background
  
  

Templates and Other Tools

• #ChangeHollywood Inclusion Rider Template
• #ChangeHollywood Additional Resources
• Humanified social impact network 
• Hollywood Climate Summit
• RespectAbility's Entertainment Consulting Team 

Seed&Spark Articles

• Seed&Spark's Inclusive Language Guidelines
• Collaborative Culture: Behind the Scenes of Netflix's Disclosure
• 'Feeling Through' Deserves an Oscar, and Here's Why
• 8 Ways to Make Your Set More Inclusive for Cast

What to Watch

Disclosure (feature documentary on Netflix) — An unprecedented look at transgender depictions in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender. Free downloadable discussion guide available here.

These/Thems (comedy web series on Outfest Now) — A newly out lesbian making up for lost time. A nonbinary educator learning to train the straights. A transman navigating life in the corporate world. A gay guy looking for love and messing it up. 4 queer friends. Set in NYC.

Breaking Fast (dramedy feature on Hulu, Prime Video, and Apple TV) — A devout Muslim living in West Hollywood makes an unexpected connection with an actor during the holy month of Ramadan.

Only Murders In the Building - 'The Boy from 6B' (comedy-mystery series on Hulu) — With the investigation scratching at a web of old crimes originating inside the building, a mysterious young man turns the tables to spy on Charles, Oliver & Mabel. New to the series? Start here.

The Peanut Butter Falcon (dramedy-adventure feature on Hulu, Paramount+, and YouTube) — Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, and Zack Gottsagen star in "a modern-day Mark Twain fable that will melt your heart" (Flickering Myth).

Keep an eye on this page for more resources as the list grows! And if you're interested in equity and inclusion education opportunities for your workplace, click here.