SAG Indie Ultra low Contract

	Re: SAG Indie Ultra low Contract by Todd Terry on Jun 18, 2009 at 2:00:58 pm SAG can do absolutely nothing to you. As much as they would like to make noise and pretend they do, SAG has no jusrisdiction whatsoever over producers, directors, or anyone or anything other than their own members. You can cast Anthony Hopkins in your non-SAG film and pay him a dollar a day.... IF he is willing to do it. It's entirely up to the talent. Any repercussions to that deal would only be a problem for the talent, not for you. Now, SAG might try to make it difficult for you to, say, legally hire their talent on your next SAG project... but if you do each and every separate project under a diffrent company banner (they way the majority of films are produced) they can do nothing to or impose any restrictions or sanctions against the "new" production company (even though it might be exactly the same people). SAG should be working hard to make it easier to hire their talent... but they don't. Most of the time they just throw up a mountian of red tape and make it more difficult to hire their members, not easier. I know that first hand... as not only am I a producer who occasionally needs to hire SAG talent (and yes, we do it "legally"), but before I became a wannabe movie director I was a wannabe actor myself... and am an AFTRA/SAG member. I personally never scabbed, but there were many instances when producers and directors on non-SAG projects wanted to cast me, but SAG made it so darn hard (and not just the money thing) that they didn't. In hindsight I probably should have taken the jobs anyway... I know many actors who do. T2 __________________________________ Todd Terry Creative Director Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc. fantasticplastic.com Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: SAG Indie Ultra low Contract by Noah Kadner on Jun 18, 2009 at 4:19:27 pm These days it's going to be hard to find a SAG actor willing to work without a contract. But if you really look at their SAGIndie contracts you can basically defer everything as long as you don't intend to exhibit the movie for pay. For festival films and calling cards it's a no-brainer. Noah Writing RED: The Ultimate Guide to Using the Revolutionary Camera!. Unlock the secrets of the DVX100, HVX200 and Apple Color. Now featuring the Lens Adapter Guidebook, Sony EX1 Guidebook, DVD Studio Pro and How to Light Interviews. http://www.callboxlive.com Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: SAG Indie Ultra low Contract by Todd Terry on Jun 18, 2009 at 4:50:15 pm [Noah Kadner] "These days it's going to be hard to find a SAG actor willing to work without a contract." Actually, I'm not sure if it is the economy, SAG political climate, the kinds of projects that are going on, or just the particular neck o' the woods that we are in.... but right now it seems especially easy to get SAG actors to work outside of union jurisdiction... at least around here. To make it clear, we don't blatantly ask them to work outside SAG jurisdiction, and I don't overtly encourage my fellow union brothers and sisters to scab... we'll just put out casting calls or calls to the agents we use and they know ahead of time it's a non-union gig. Still, we get plenty of auditionees come in or headshots submitted from people that I know are union... sometimes those actors will just "neglect" to mention they are SAG, sometimes they will be upfront and say "I'm union and I know this is a non-union shoot... but I don't care, I want the gig." Without actually counting it up, I'm betting in the last three or four weeks here we've had probably a half dozen or more instances where we have used SAG talent, and only one of those was on an actual SAG-signatory project. It would probably behoove any producer counting nickles just to ask the talent what they are willing to do. T2 __________________________________ Todd Terry Creative Director Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc. fantasticplastic.com Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: SAG Indie Ultra low Contract by Noah Kadner on Jun 18, 2009 at 8:19:55 pm Oh yes- SAG will be all over you if you sign their contract. If you don't sign the contract you as the producer are not at any legal risk whatsoever from SAG. Any actor who acts in your project leaves them self open to sanctions from SAG but that's not your problem. And as Todd suggests, the economic climate is relaxing the rules for actors. People need to work more than they need to worry about their union regs. Noah Writing RED: The Ultimate Guide to Using the Revolutionary Camera!. Unlock the secrets of the DVX100, HVX200 and Apple Color. Now featuring the Lens Adapter Guidebook, Sony EX1 Guidebook, DVD Studio Pro and How to Light Interviews. http://www.callboxlive.com Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: SAG Indie Ultra low Contract by Noah Kadner on Jun 24, 2009 at 4:24:28 pm Only SAG can help you with that Writing RED: The Ultimate Guide to Using the Revolutionary Camera!. Unlock the secrets of the DVX100, HVX200 and Apple Color. Now featuring the Lens Adapter Guidebook, Sony EX1 Guidebook, DVD Studio Pro and How to Light Interviews. http://www.callboxlive.com Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: SAG Indie Ultra low Contract by John Fishback on Jul 1, 2009 at 8:06:04 pm Here's a link to SAG contracts. Under the Contracts tab there's a dropdown to various contract forms. http://www.sag.org/content/contracts Of course, there will be blanks for names, dates, etc. John MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24" TV-Logic Monitor ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE Enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5 Final Cut Studio 2 (up to date) Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index