Participant “Gratitude & Pride”: Ava DuVernay, Martin Sheen, Regina King, Alfonso Cuarón, Matt Damon, Diego Luna & More Ask Hollywood To Embrace Shuttered Company’s Social Impact Legacy
deadline.comAs Neil Young once sang, the now shuttered Participant is gone, but not forgotten. Some of Tinseltown’s leading talents like Regina King, George Clooney, Ava DuVernay, Daniel Dae Kim, Martin Sheen, Regina King, Alfonso Cuaron, Matt Damon, Diego Luna and more have joined up with the National Domestic Workers Alliance to express “gratitude and pride” in the work put out by the Jeff Skoll-created shingle over the last two decades.
At the same time, the A-Listers are imploring the ever increasingly conglomerated industry to keep their eyes on the social impact prize. “As we say goodbye to Participant, we must underscore that values-based storytelling is needed now more than ever; to expand the room for debate, to open our hearts to experiences vastly different from our own, to immerse us in the beauty of humanity’s complexities,” the star-studded letter says. “And in the face of unprecedented change and uncertainty, we need deep partnerships between great storytellers, advocates and movements for change now more than ever, to remind us of our agency in shaping the future and the power of our actions.
The future and health of our culture and democracy requires more of us to participate, spread hope, and humanity. Democracy is a living, breathing being that we, as participants, give life.” “There is a whole ecosystem of people, connected by the work of the last 20 years of Participant, ready to work with you,” the correspondence tells the town. READ THE FULL LETTER ON PARTICIPANT’S LEGACY BELOW “The stories we tell in Hollywood reflect or shape the lives of so many people around the country,” Regina King added individually. “I wanted to tell Shirley Chisolm’s story for more than a decade because she embodied the Black
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