The flight of film and television production out of the United States is usually framed in terms of jobs and dollars. And no wonder: entire careers are evaporating at a nauseating rate, with US film and television production down 40 percent in 2024 from its 2022 peak. What gets less attention is a quieter loss: the erosion of an intergenerational workforce.In 2021, I directed an episode of The CW’s Nancy Drew. Like many productions of its scale,…