Posts by Jacqui Dunn
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So in the end, it's a question of timing, isn't it? We don't really know what came first, chicken or egg. Did those notices come out after some approaches were rebuffed? Or not? We don't know.
By the time I'd responded to previous postings, a couple had been added....but, (takes deep breath) - oh what the hell, I was just going to surmise something, which is what I'm exhorting folk not to do. No, I just hope when the dust clears and calm descends on us, and fear flies out the window, we might get some gains out of this.
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People have said that the AE voted on it before it was called, but like a lot of things in this, I'm not taking anything at face value until I see it.
Very wise.
Jonathan - you were told something, which may or may not be so. There have been lots of "tellings" from all different sides. That people go off half-cocked is something I for one would like to avoid, if at all possible, and the problem with quoting someone who is reporting something they may or may not have heard correctly, or even understood - not that I'm necessarily saying that about your source, you understand - is quite dangerous. For instance, it wouldn't be allowed in a court of law, if you get my drift.
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the MEAA sent a number of notices to PJ specifically requesting a collective bargaining agreement and telling him there was a boycott on his film
If the word "boycott" was used, I of course, stand corrected.
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@Nick - If Actor's Equity directs its members, then the "we" is the collective voice. No-one who isn't a member will necessarily know anything about it.
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I thing the big swinging thread is over there =====>
I thing you mean the big swinking thread, don't you? And please, where? I followed the arrow and fell off the computer.
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@Russell oops, I think I misread this as Russell, it should be SteveH: I guess I see a difference between saying "thanks for the offer, we are really interested, but can we talk first?" and "thanks for the offer, but we won't be working for you".
I've never boycotted anyone, but remember helping represent Equity over some of the early films which routinely would involve (mostly) US actors being brought in, when some guidelines were sought. I suppose that halted proceedings for the producers and may have made them uncomfortable.
Talking things through (behind closed doors, away from the public gaze, for the previous two years, as Robyn Malcolm said Equity had been trying to do) seems pretty innocuous and sane to me, so I share her "sick" feeling that this has got out of hand.
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As I understand it fulsome is losing its old hold on being just a pejorative term
Mmm, must be. Prince Charles used it in thanking a local somebody here for the welcome speech they gave (when he came here during William's babyhood), to the amusement of many academics and vocab lovers.
My Mac has packed a sad and obviously needs the doctor, so doing this on a pc (yuk yuk yukity yuk!). Since I last looked here, many comments, but no answer to my question on these residuals, and nobody suggesting that Robyn Malcolm, in her haste and probably nervousness during the interview, stumbling over so many different thoughts that she did, for a time, sound totally muddled, was being totally truthful and sincere. However, my memory of what she said - and forgive me for not going to the relevant sound/video clips given above (there are just so many things this computer doesn't want to do at a speed faster than duh!!) - was that there was never a boycott/blacklist, it was a directive not to sign. When Sainsbury hauled her up on that, she corrected what she said. So I for one think that the terms "boycott" and "blacklist" have been a kneejerk reaction quite uncalled for.
But rather than dig around to find out who said it first, I think it's time to regroup. For everyone in the film business, no matter what one does.
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fulsomely apologise
Craig, you might want to check fulsome in the dictionary. Unless you know exactly what it means.....:))
Could someone please remind me - the residuals offered by PJ: wasn't there mention a long time ago that they don't actually kick in until many months after the DVDs come out?
Freelancing, film contracts, and all that stuff - it doesn't suit everyone, and in New Zealand, it's very much a young person's game. Some of the folk who were the stalwarts of the industry a few years ago, no longer do it. It's a killer for relationships, for planning, for financial security. It can set someone up because the hours are shitty, but the pay makes up for it, and you don't have time to spend it much, so it adds up nice and fast. But make no mistake - it's not an easy road, for anyone. Crew or actors.
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Petra: don't know if this is the sort of thing you're after, but EECA offers incentives to industries which are heavy users of power and energy.
Any time you want a hand with the dishes, give me a call!
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Maybe they're just good at swinging with the punches. After all, if politicians can have their own spin doctors, big organizations, especially organizations which may have masses of resentment towards unions, would be foolish not to have their own and take advantage of it.
For what it's worth, I don't think it was a pre-existing plan. It didn't need to be.