Wga Short Film Agreement

The sec­tor has not been hit by a strike for more than a dozen years, when the WGA struck for 100 days in 2007/2008. This time, a strike was vir­tu­al­ly ruled out because of the work stop­page that was caused by the ter­mi­na­tion of the coro­n­avirus. Fol­low­ing the agree­ment reached in the ear­ly hours of July 1, the WGA nego­ti­at­ing com­mit­tee stat­ed that “while the per­sis­tence of the glob­al pan­dem­ic and eco­nom­ic uncer­tain­ty have lim­it­ed our abil­i­ty to exer­cise true col­lec­tive pow­er to achieve many oth­er impor­tant and nec­es­sary treaty objec­tives, we remain com­mit­ted to pur­su­ing these goals in future nego­ti­a­tions.” The low-bud­get agree­ment is only used if request­ed by the Writer, and the com­pa­ny must also pro­vide the nec­es­sary doc­u­ments and con­clud­ing doc­u­ments for the con­tract with a weak bud­get agree­ment. If the terms and con­di­tions of the agree­ment are includ­ed in a per­son­al agree­ment, but no addi­tion­al doc­u­ments are tabled for the low bud­get agree­ment and approved by WGAW, the author will NOT ensure that the low-bud­get agree­ment applies to the project. The Inde­pen­dent Writ­ers Caucus‘s mis­sion is to increase the sta­tus and influ­ence of writ­ers in the low-bud­get and inde­pen­dent film com­mu­ni­ty, expand the reach of authors in low-bud­get/in­de­pen­dent films using the low-bud­get agree­ment and the WGA MBA, and increase the emerg­ing mem­ber­ship of writ­ers and film­mak­ers in WGAW. WGA mem­bers vot­ed over­whelm­ing­ly in favour of rat­i­fy­ing their new film and tele­vi­sion con­tract and 4,068 votes to 87 (98% vs. 2%) I was elect­ed. for the agree­ment. The 35-mem­ber body said many of the new terms of the Min­i­mum Basic Agree­ment (MBA) fol­low recent­ly nego­ti­at­ed nego­ti­a­tions by SAG-AFTRA and guild of Amer­i­ca direc­tors, includ­ing increas­ing the sub­scrip­tion of VOD residues.

Wel­come to the world of pro­fes­sion­al film and tele­vi­sion script­ing. Thanks to a lot of work and orga­ni­za­tion, you have a union that has your back. The WGA helps estab­lish rules that gov­ern how you are paid, when you are paid and what you are paid. Improved pro­tec­tion of tele­vi­sion authors in the area of options and exclu­siv­i­ty, includ­ing options-spe­cif­ic restric­tions after short peri­ods of employ­ment, has also increased, and the num­ber of authors cov­ered by mar­gin pro­tec­tion mea­sures first nego­ti­at­ed in 2017 has been expand­ed. Writ­ers and stu­dios ten­ta­tive­ly agree on a new con­tract The Writ­ers Guild of Amer­i­ca and major Hol­ly­wood stu­dios have out­lined a new mas­ter film and TV con­tract, allay­ing con­cerns about labour dis­putes that are rein­forc­ing the industry‘s strug­gle for a resump­tion of pro­duc­tion amid the tur­bu­lence of the pandemic.