Month: May 2021

The CDC’s workplace guidance for film and TV shoots means that wearing masks on sets will likely continue in the coming weeks and months, both in Los Angeles County and in other filming locations. After the pandemic started last year

“With just 40% of LA County residents fully vaccinated,” L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said, “public health safety measures, including masking, distancing, and hand washing, will help us avoid additional cases.”

Sheila Ivy Traister has given 44 years of cumulative service to the labor movement. She has held elected positions in the Colorado AFL-CIO and she has served SAG-AFTRA since before the merger. She has served on dozens of local committees

The International Documentary Association said Richard Ray Perez has been named the organization’s next executive director. Perez, a nonfiction film strategist and documentary filmmaker, succeeds Simon Kilmurry, who is stepping

As states continue to open up and the film industry kicks back into high gear, California Governor Gavin Newsom is attempting to lure more productions to California. The governor has added $30 million to the state’s film and television

SAG-AFTRA’s longtime National Executivce Director David White will step down this spring, after 12 years in the role, the guild announced on Friday. White, who took his post as the guild’s chief negotiator in 2009, oversaw the 2012 merger