Union Made
I Cut My Teeth on Kinescopes
My interests in film and theatre started at Roy Elementary School in Northlake, Illinois, when I got to do lighting for school plays. […]
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Departments
The Art and Craft of Giving Back
by Edward Landler The Membership Outreach Committee recently offered three separate classes, each comprising two sessions over two consecutive days, […]
Guild
What Our Members Do: Yasuhiko Inoue
My job is to dance with footage and strike a pose or two in the routine; I find the best moment, rhythm, angle in the footage. […]
Guild
What Our Members Do: Telon Weathington
“I log and transcribe reality footage and interviews in real time. When I am logging footage, I am typing detailed descriptions of the scenes and noting what is important. When I am transcrib- ing, I am typing what is said in the interviews word for word.” […]
Departments
Flipping Reality – There’s Power in Post
In February 2013, about a year before the formation of the Guild’s Membership Outreach Committee, I and the other editors and assistant editors of the fourth season of Swamp People (2010-present) returned to work under an IATSE contract after a four-day work stoppage that “flipped” the previously non-union show. […]
Committee News
Dim Sum and Diversity:
A Discussion of Shared Experiences
The Guild’s Asian-American Steering Committee hosted a traditional brunch and panel discussion by distinguished group of Asian-heritage union members. […]
Union Made
UNION MADE: The Symmetry of an Editing Career
Production felt like endless problem solving––whereas editing was about storytelling using a vocabulary of images and sounds, and that excited me. […]
Union Made
UNION MADE: Growing Up with Moviemaking — And Never Leaving
When I saw the ending montage of my character walking into the sunset to the Doors’ “Not to Touch the Earth,” I was floored at the raw emotion it invoked in me. It was a defining moment and my first encounter with the power of image and music. […]
Features
UNION MADE: All in the Filmmaking Family
Many of the editors I met asked me why I didn’t want to become a director like my dad. To me, editing was far more interesting than directing — and you didn’t need a small army of people to do it.
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From The National Executive Director
$UCCESS STORIES: ‘WHAT DOES THE UNION DO FOR US?’
Here are examples of some of the help that the union staff have provided to hundreds of members over just the last year. […]
