{"id":135,"date":"2009-01-09T18:45:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T23:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lofiscifi.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2009-01-09T18:45:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T23:45:15","slug":"no-to-actra-yes-to-releases-maybe-to-cyberhats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/legalities\/no-to-actra-yes-to-releases-maybe-to-cyberhats\/","title":{"rendered":"No to ACTRA, Yes to Releases, Maybe to Cyberhats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dave has been talking to the ACTRA actor’s union about our situation, and while there are some lower rates for indie low-budget productions if you qualify, they didn’t go for our model of deferred, hypothetical money.<\/p>\n

My unnamed source who had used ACTRA actors, then was able to clear it once he had a broadcast offer, was a bit of a special case. He started his movie as a workshop\/improv kind of thing with a few people who were ACTRA. After the movie was made, he went to ACTRA and explained that he didn’t know he was going to actually make a movie — they watched it, believed him based on the style of movie, and allowed him to pay the actors TIP rates retroactively.<\/p>\n

So it looks like we should go non-ACTRA & non-union in general: unions are one of those good things, like organic food, that I continue to feel ambivalent about. On a more practical tack, does this mean I should lean towards script ideas have have lots of smaller acting parts (Play’n<\/a>) rather than ones with leads that will dominate the screen (Alleyologist<\/a>)? Input welcome.<\/p>\n

Dave was also able to track down some templates for all the releases we need at the Canadian Independent Film & Video Fund (CIFVF)<\/a>. He did it so quickly I suspect he might have Internet access via his frontal lobe. Or at least a hat like the guy at the top of the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dave has been talking to the ACTRA actor’s union about our situation, and while there are some lower rates for indie low-budget productions if you qualify, they didn’t go for our model of deferred, hypothetical money. … More→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalities","category-logistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ghostswithshitjobs.com\/productionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}