STOCKADE WORKS 2024 YEAR IN REVIEW

2024 was a year of many firsts for Stockade Works!

As we supported the rebuilding of the Film & Television industry in the Hudson Valley, we focused on deepening our commitment to our community through new and innovative programming. The Hudson Valley may not quite be back at pre-strike levels of production, but the momentum is growing and we have a lot to celebrate!

In 2024 Stockade Works:

As always, we champion racial, gender, and socioeconomic diversity, striving to make systemic change in the Film & Television industry from the ground up.

Stockade Works Grads areโ€ฆ

39%

BIPOC

73%

Unemployed or low-income (at the time they apply)

64%

Women or Non-Binary

As we saw production begin to bounce back in the Hudson Valley, we made 5,000 referrals of our grads and local crew to production jobs, providing 75 local productions with crew referral services!

I have been supported non stop since being invited into [Stockadeโ€™s] programmingโ€ฆ


Cydney Cherise Mitchell | HBOโ€™s The Gilded Age / Local 829 Assistant Costumer Designer trainee

โ€œStockade Works has been a blessing to my career by devoting so much attention to detail in my professional development. I have been supported non-stop since being invited into their programming. The emails are always filled with good news and their team is always there to answer any question with a smile.โ€

Bootcamp provided education, hands-on learning and a boost in confidenceโ€ฆ


Myra French | 2024 Crew Boot Camp trainee

โ€œStockade Works offered me a golden opportunity and a solution to the film industry catch 22 - you need some experience to be hired but, how can you get that experience without being on the job? Boot Camp provided education, hands -on learning and a boost in confidence which can turn dreams into reality.โ€

Our 2024 Trainings:

2024 Highlights

Stockade Works Training Vets on Set Bootcamp

VETS ON SET

In April 2024, Stockade Works piloted our first โ€˜Vets on Setโ€™ program, a hands-on 3.5-day training, led by experienced industry professionals, to equip 25 military vets and military community members with the skills needed to succeed in the dynamic and fast-paced realm of production and on-set operations. Military veterans already possess many of the qualities that make for a fantastic film & TV crew memberโ€”and the workshop proved just that. After an emotional and transformational long weekend, both instructors and participants were inspired by themselves and one another. One veteran was even hired that same week by an instructor as an Art PA on a film shooting in Newburgh.


Assistant Costume Designer Workshop: In partnership with Local USA 829, IATSE, Reel Works, and Stockade Works and supported by funding through the New York Entertainment Workforce Diversity Grant Program, Warner Bros. Discovery delivered an intensive 3-week training program in August 2024 to prepare eight aspiring Film & Television professionals to work on set as Assistant Costume Designers. By strengthening the skilled crew base across New York State, the program supported the growth of the Film & Television industry and benefitted local businesses and workers, aligning with New York Stateโ€™s economic development objectives.

THE GILDED AGE / LOCAL 829


SWAY

Stockade Works Access Youth (SWAY) launched in 2023 as our first-ever in-school youth program, with the SWAY pilot serving 60 students over 4 classes at Ellenville High School and training them in the fundamentals of working in Film & TV production careers. Expanding in its second year to include additional modules, Stockade Works is back at Ellenville for the 2024-2025 school year providing over 100 high schoolers the opportunity to explore their own potential for careers in media and other creative fields. 

Watch our video on the SWAY pilot!


MRCโ€™s Poker Face

For the Behind the Camera Initiative, Stockade Works teamed up with MRC Entertainment for a second year to offer a unique paid fellowship program for three NYC-based young adults to work full-time for 12 weeks on the set of Poker Face, a procedural Television Mystery-Drama. With recruitment and career services provided in partnership with Reel Works, the selected trainees received the invaluable opportunity to experience and work in multiple film crew departments on a rotating basis. The goal of the MRC Behind the Camera Initiative is to offer underrepresented talent onsite learning and mentorship across MRC TV Productions, providing people from diverse backgrounds with a strong foundation for professional development in the industry.

We need your support as we dive into 2025!

Help Make a Difference

Thank you to our 2024 supporters!

THANK

YOU

  • Insight Equipment

  • Key Bank Foundation

  • National Endowment for the Arts

  • New York State Council of the Arts

  • New York State Department of Labor

  • Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation

  • The Dealy Foundation

  • The Dyson Foundation

  • Extreme Reach

  • Hudson Valley Foundation for Youth Health

  • New York State Senator Michelle Hinchey

  • Novo Foundation

  • MRC Entertainment

  • Spark of Hudson

  • Warner Brothers Discovery


  • Anonymous

  • Arrowood Farms

  • Chestnut Street Design & Construction

  • Citizens Bank

  • Edgeworx Studios

  • Emerson Resort & Spa

  • Four Seasons Sothebyโ€™s International Realty

Benefit Sponsors

MAKE LOCAL WORK

  • Jeff Aman

  • Local 52

  • Markertek

  • Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union

  • M&T Bank

  • Pivotal Post

  • Sandbox FX

  • Second Bolt

  • Stew Meyers

  • Tammy Johnston

  • Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation

  • Upstate Down

  • Upstate Jamboree


STOCKADE WORKS

Board Members

  • Mary Stuart Masterson, Founder & President

  • Beth Davenport, Co-Founder

  • JR Craigmile

  • Cassandra Del Viscio

  • Gabrielle Fialkoff

  • Jane Garrity

  • Marie Nachsin

  • Elliot Matz

  • Flo Mitchell-Brown

  • Stephanie Royal


STOCKADE WORKS

Advisory Council

  • Luca Ognibene

  • Daphne Rubin Vega

  • Thomas Sadoski

  • Lacey Schwartz Delgado

  • Michael Urie

  • Hilarie Burton Morgan

  • Lawrie Bird Firestone

  • Patrick Harrison

  • Jeffrey Dean Morgan


STOCKADE WORKS

Staff & Team Members

Susie Sofranko, Executive Director

Beth Davenport, Co-Founder

Colin Fickes, Program Director

Kristina Perez, SWAY Lead

Shirlee Weinrich, Communications