Reopening the film and TV industry “is not going to be linear and it’s not going to be simple,” said Rebecca Rhine, executive director of the International Cinematographers Guild, IATSE Local 600, …
, IATSE Local 600, in today’s video message to her members. “We’re just gonna have to keep looking at all the different variables and come up with the most effective way to keep people safe, and there’s nothing more important than getting this right.”said that one of the main instruments through which the industry will reopen is the Industry-Wide Labor-Management Safety Committee, which has been active for decades in developing safety protocols for film and TV production.
“And one of the things that we’ve tried to do at Local 600,” Rhine said, “is anchor those discussions in a certain group of principles which allow us to keep people safe. So we talk about having a safety officer on set; we talk about making decisions based on medical expertise; we talk about avoiding discriminatory practices, or HIPPA violations if people’s health care or age are brought into the discussion.
To illustrate the changing landscape, Lindley pointed to two shows that he heard about just this week. “One of them is a feature that was supposed to start up again in September, and now the director has decided not to start up again until there’s a vaccine, which is a long ways away. Another show I heard about is a streaming feature that’s now targeting August as their start date, and they’re confident that they’ll make that date. Different genres have different methods.
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