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Concert flyer designer job2/3/2024 ![]() "This year it's like, 'Hey, are you working on anything?'"Īdding to fears is further possible labour strife involving the Directors Guild of America and the U.S. ![]() "Over the last three or four years, it's been hard for me to get people on set because they're like, 'My next four months are filled,'” he says. or New York right now and able to picket with my fellow writers."įarrell says he’s trying to join Canadian writing rooms in the next couple of months, and anecdotally says jobs in Toronto seem to have dried up. "I actually feel kind of bad that I'm not in L.A. comedy “The Office” and the Canadian series “Run the Burbs.” “It's for a very good cause and I'm hopeful that we get a resolution that feels like it'll be helping writers get to a place where we can make a living wage," says Farrell, whose credits include the U.S. screen projects up until the strike cancelled “a lot of meetings,” noting that the work stoppage includes an end to pitches. Farrell, a dual member of the WGA and WGC, says he was developing U.S. Neither are WGA members who reside in the United States allowed to work on a Canadian show while the dispute continues. ![]() ![]() Victoria Shen of the Writers Guild of Canada says no productions under a WGC agreement have stopped and that Canadian guild members - many of whom have dual WGA and WGC memberships - are prohibited from accepting “struck work,” which includes anything that is normally a WGA show. “The longer the strike goes on, the higher the risk is that they run out of material they need to continue." "We do a large volume of television series production in Vancouver, and the projects that are slated to start or are in progress right now, obviously, at some point in time, will need scripts,” says Teoli. Things would change if the strike continues, he says. productions already in progress are able to continue with locked scripts that don’t require the work of a WGA writer. He says there otherwise has been little impact in Vancouver because most U.S. He adds the dip is not unique to Vancouver or solely due to the strike, suggesting it's part of a broader shift in the global marketplace as streamers and producers rethink the way they create global content. Vancouver film commissioner Geoff Teoli estimates permit applications over the last 90 days dropped 40 to 50 per cent compared to the same time last year. Observers say impacts are likely to ripple north of the border where more than half of film and TV shoots are actually foreign-based but employ thousands of Canadians, such as Prime Video's "The Boys," which shoots in Toronto, and Netflix's "The Night Agent," which shoots in Vancouver. “Productions have been slower and more cautious about green-lighting or triggering production, starting production, because they did not know whether or not they would be disrupted by the strike,” says Pigott.Īt least “one substantial production” has shut down since the May 2 walkout, she says, revealing nothing about the project other than that it “has employed many, many people over time.”Ĭontract negotiations between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers broke down over myriad complex issues including compensation and staffing levels. Toronto film commissioner Marguerite Pigott described it as “a temporary cooling effect." And that's really hurting a lot of people out here,” she says, noting it’s especially hard on younger people just starting their careers.įilm commissioners in two of Canada's biggest production hubs also report a slowdown, with one pointing to a drop in the amount of applications for film permits in Vancouver and the other seeing less scouting activity in Toronto. "There's literally nothing on our up-and-coming production list, if you will. She knows of only four working shoots when typically there would be at least 40. Henderson, who says she's currently completing her final weeks on a Disney/Hulu series set to air in 2024, says jobs seemed to start drying up in the months leading up to the strike deadline. Last week’s decision by the Writers Guild of America to drop their pens for picket signs sparked immediate uncertainty over the status of current and upcoming U.S.-based productions shot in Canada, with Henderson noting a precipitous drop in Vancouver shoots that employ local crews. Really, really be cautious about what you're spending.” TORONTO - Upon learning that a threatened Hollywood writers strike had indeed become reality, Vancouver costume designer Patti Henderson gave her department bracing advice: “Please don't go out and buy new cars.
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