After Sean Penn confused the trade org with the AMPTP and called it a “bankers’ guild,” Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line explain how their battles parallel the issues underlying this spring’s strike.
A major focus for the past several years is that we are the only artist on a union production that has no minimum salary and no health insurance. We don’t have health care, period. End of story.
Creative producers might work on a project for years, and yet get paid only if the film or show gets made. Development fees have largely become extinct. We identify material, find writers, develop the script, attach a director and cast the movie, then supervise it through its debut. It used to be that if you bet on yourself, you knew at the end of the day that if the movie hit, you had success in the upside of the movie.
We have a lot of the same concerns that members of the Writers Guild and other guilds have, except we have no seat at the bargaining table. Issues for writers like span protection [from decreased compensation during long periods of production], mini-rooms and the time it takes to get a series greenlit and going are similar to what producers experience.
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