Why the World Pride Parade and LGBTQ Awareness Matter to the Guild
This weekend, I will proudly march with members of Local 700, alongside IATSE members from the vast number of crafts within the union. […]
Diversity
Out and About:
LGTBQ Committee Discusses Visibility in the Workplace
In late January, the LGBTQ Steering Committee presented a discussion at the Guild entitled “Working It Out: Being LGBTQ in Post-Production.” About 30 members participated and, even for a Diversity Committee event, the group was…well, diverse. […]
Look What THEY Did!
Guild Celebrates Women’s History Month
On March 23, 2019, the Motion Picture Editors Guild’s Women’s Steering Committee organized an evening celebration in the Guild’s Dede Allen Seminar Room honoring Women’s History Month. […]
Democrats Flip House, GOP Holds Senate Majority
Everyone saw it coming. Democrats, according to ‘The Washington Post,’ “leveraged fury with President Trump” and won a majority in the House of Representatives in the November midterm elections. Of the 435 House seats, Democrats won 233, surpassing the 218 they needed to secure a majority. At press time, three seats were still too close to call. […]
A Celebration of Emmy Proportions!
Pan Pacific and Asian-American Committee Honors Its Own
Three-dozen enthusiastic MPEG members gathered in the Editors Guild’s Dede Allen Seminar Room in Los Angeles to celebrate the careers of five members of Pan Pacific and Asian descent who were nominated for Emmy Awards in 2018. […]
Calling Out Anti-Mom Bias in the Workplace
On a Saturday in late June, over 40 women members gathered at the Guild’s LA headquarters for a roundtable entitled “#MomsToo.” Amy Adrion, who directed “Half the Picture” (2018), which “celebrates the groundbreaking work of female film directors and investigates the systemic discrimination” against women in Hollywood, was also in attendance. […]
Not-So-Secret Agents:
The Art of Negotiating Revealed
During the last week of June, the Editors Guild Diversity Committee’s African-American Steering Committee hosted “The Art of Negotiation,” an eye-opening panel to show how agents serve below-the-line talent as well as those above the line. […]
Editors Guild Members Invited
to Join Motion Picture Academy
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has extended invitations to join the organization to 928 artists and executives from 59 countries — including 37 Editors Guild members in good standing — who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures […]
Netflix Fires Chief Communications Officer Over Use of Racial Slur
The chief executive of Netflix fired the company’s chief commu-nications officer on Friday after he “showed unacceptably low racial awareness and sensitivity” in using a racial epithet at least twice in the workplace, according to a company memo. […]
DGA Says Number of Minority Directors Hit 5-Year Low; Women Making Gains
Saying that discrimination is “still rampant” in the film industry, the DGA on Thursday released its second report on Feature Film Diversity, which found that only 9.7% of live-action American films with box office takes of at least $250,000 were […]