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Change often comes slowly on film sets. Our industry tends to cling to outdated ways of doing things until forced to change. The pandemic and a rapidly changing society are finally bringing about some much-needed changes on set. For those...
Recently fourteen top film industry cinematographers and the president of the Cinematographers Guild, IATSE Local 600, signed a letter urging The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) member producers to address the brutally long workdays commonplace in the...
The short answer is that film crews won’t be affected very much by the latest CDC mask recommendations, especially if they’re working on union sets. On May 13th, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued some updated mask...
The current movies that are up for award consideration this year are not what I would have expected from a year like 2020. This past year has been a train wreck crashing into a dumpster fire for many of us....
It’s award show season in Hollywood, but are industry award shows even relevant anymore in the middle of a pandemic? This time last year, people were talking about Oscar parties and picking their favorite films. This year everyone seems less...
The film industry went through quite an upheaval in 2020, as did we all. I never would have imagined that film production would shut down for months, as the year started off so busy with filming before the pandemic hit. ...
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