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ADG Renews Scott Roth’s Contract for Three Years
Tom Walsh, president of the Art Directors Guild (IATSE Local 800), announced that the guild’s board of directors have extended executive director Scott Roth’s contract for another three years. Roth has held the position since 1997. »
Art Directors Guild Aims to Organize Previs Artists
The Art Directors Guild (ADG) has launched a new informational website, “Artists For Direct Action” (www.directactionartist.com), to provide previs artists with the tools necessary to organize their workplaces and secure membership in the Art Directors Guild, IATSE Local 800. »
Union Roundup: Open Letters, Open Futures
Visual Effects Society exec director Eric Roth’s recent clarion call about the state of visual effects workers, couched in his “Open Letter to the VFX Artists and the Industry at Large” has been causing quite a stir. Is the VES looking to become a union of some sort? »
An Open Letter to VFX Artists and the Industry at Large
Eric Roth, executive director of the Visual Effects Society released an open letter to the industry yesterday pledging to use the organization’s clout to address the abysmal working conditions that VFX artists face today. “VES may not have the power of collective bargaining, but we do have the power of a voice that’s 2,400... »
Union Roundup – Half-lives
Last time out, we wrote of newly-installed Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s impending budget hatchet for that state’s renowned film production subsidies – they were the most generous in the country, often coming in at 40%-plus tax credit rebate for filming in the Wolverine state. Snyder wants to cut that to a total fund of... »
Union Roundup – Wisconsin Comes to Michigan
... But Walker’s colleague across the water, Michigan’s own newly elected Republican, Rick Snyder, is initially going after less controversial targets in attempting to solve his own state’s budget woes... And among those left behind are film workers. Snyder proposes rolling back – as if they were collective bargaining rights – Michigan’s subsidies for... »
Union Roundup – Digits, Digits Everywhere
So if it’s a new year, it must be award season, and with it, the various rituals and pleasantries that accompany such a melding of the artistic and, of course, the commercial. So it was that I found myself -- along with a bunch of other press folk (and a couple more plucky BTL... »
Union Roundup – A Tale of Two Lunches
Hello again. It’s been awhile since I’ve written one of these for Below the Line, and if you’re reading this – on a screen somewhere, not in newsprint – I thank you for making the transition with us. This is, as they say in the film trade, a “reboot” – another start to the column... »
TV Everywhere—Unions, Not so much
Long time readers of this column (and hey, if that’s you—thanks!), will recall I have written occasionally, (well, at least once), of my annual treks out to Austin where I wear my “book author” hat and pal around with other storytellers of genre fiction. I have a good friend there who, with his wife,... »
Union Roundup – November 2009
“The Writers Guilds of America, West and East mark the passing of Nick Counter, longtime president of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, and convey their deepest sympathy to his family,” came the mid-November statement. That was it, pretty much in its entirety, from the WGA. Brevity can be its own statement,... »
Director Series
Iran’s Best Foreign Film Nominee: Asghar Farhadi’s A SeparationJanuary 2012 | By Jack Egan
One of the surprises of this awards season is A Separation, a highly lauded film from Iran that has captivated reviewers and moviegoers and... »
Danish Director Nicolas Windng Refn Pushes Drive into High Gear
January 2012 | By Jack Egan
Nicolas Windng Refn, director of Drive, doesn’t himself drive. He has failed his driver’s license test eight times. Yet the heralded Danish director came... »