The Pioneers Assistance Fund’s Covid-19 relief effort has helped more than 8,000 movie theater workers with nearly $3 million in grants during the pandemic.
The fund, which is part of the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation, is chaired by Chris Aronson, Paramount’s president of distribution.The overwhelming majority of financial assistance disbursed by the fund is going to ticket-takers, concession workers, projectionists and ushers who work, or formerly worked, at movie theaters across the country — from small, family-owned theaters to the major chains.
Todd Vrandenburg, the foundation’s executive director, noted that Phase One of the program distributed some $2 million in $300 stipends to furloughed theater workers early on in
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