The Cherokee Nation Film Office and Oklahoma Film & Television Academy are partnering to help educate Native American students to be set-ready as industry continues to grow in Oklahoma.
For Jason Oser, Halloween 2020 was no treat.
The Oklahoma City resident was laid off at the end of October from his job in the oil and gas industry, about seven months into the COVID-19 pandemic. I just figured I d dive head-first on it and started in early December, finished the 17th of December . and then I was hired on my first movie Jan. 14, Oser said. I m on my fourth film. . It s been very great, steady work for me.
That s what Communities Foundation of Oklahoma Executive Director Teresa Rose Crook likes to hear. The nonprofit teamed with Oklahoma state, city, county and other government entities to form Community CARES Partners, a public-private resource center to assist Oklahomans during the pandemic.