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SAG Indie Ultra low Contract
by Byron Chan on Jun 18, 2009 at 5:15:01 am

I'm currently trying to make my first feature film with a very limited amount of money. I found 2 SAG actors which I want to cast, but after reading up about the SAG indie ultra low contract I'm not quite sure how everything will work out b/c it looks like it's going to cost me a LOT more money for these 2 SAG actors not b/c of the 100/day but because of all the other stuff that comes with it.. and since I'm shooting in San Diego it looks like I might have to put these guys up as "overnight" for all the days which means its gonna be impossible for me to do this.

If anyone out there knows anything about this ultra low contract and has experience producing a film with this contract in place please help me answer the following questions:

1. Can I bend or break some of the rules of SAG IF my actors are cool with it? meaning can SAG legally do anything to me or my production if they find out LATER ON that certain rules were broken or whatever.. and i mean.. how would they find out, or prove it for that matter?

2. I'm hoping to self-distribute my film after it does the festival run by selling DVD's thru the films own website, netflix, amazon, etc. And also try to do a theatrical run through arthouse independent theaters, or college theaters (i will charge people for tickets).. so the question is does the SAG contract restrict me from doing this??

I am currently trying to get the answer to #2 from SAG but apparently my SAG "representative" doesn't even know the answers to this.. so he's gonna ask the LA office through an email or something and get back to us.. who knows when this will be?

Thanks for any info on this!


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