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IATSE Locals Unanimously Endorse Rep. Howard Berman
The West Coast studio locals of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) unanimously endorsed U.S. Congressman Howard L. Berman to represent California's 30th District in the United States Congress. These locals represent over 35,000 Los Angeles-area men and women who make their living in the motion picture and television production industries... »
Union Roundup: Occupy Column Space
Much as happened since we last took to this space to opine on the intersection of film, politics, and constantly fraying economies here, notably, of course, some unforeseen blowback from general populaces everywhere against predatory banking and investing policies, (which dictate the “inevitablities” of off-shoring, downsizing, layoffs, union-smashing, pension and benefit rollbacks, et al),... »
DGA Reaches Tentative Agreement on Commercial Contract
The Directors Guild of America today announced that the national board of directors has approved a tentative new national commercial contract to be sent to the membership for ratification. The agreement covers a three-year term from Dec. 1, 2011 through Nov. 30, 2014 and addresses wage increases (2% per year, plus a wage increase of... »
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... »
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Norwegian director Morten Tyldum Blends Mystery and Humor in HeadhuntersMay 2012 | By Jack Egan
Headhunters, is a new Norwegian movie, stylishly helmed by Morten Tyldum, one of the country’s best- known directors. Blending suspense and violence with macabre... »
Greg Carter Resurrects a Baseball Hero
April 2012 | By Scott Essman
With the onset of April every spring, one conjures the classic baseball films in cinema lore. Certainly The Natural, Bull Durham, Field of... »