Here is the information that will help you with all paperwork and payroll issues. Please pass this information along to others that worked on this production.
Thanks,
Mae Jason
Attachment:
ATTENTION: CREW, TALENT, EXTRAS, EMPLOYEES, VENDORS, CONTRACTORS
If you are not paid by the Springbreak 83 or any Production this is what you do?
Anyone with complaints and issues about any production, especially productions that fail to pay their crew, employees or vendors, or any abuse of employees such as lack of water, bathroom time and facilities, violation of child labor, security, etc. should put their concerns in writing and e-mail them to led-entertainment@la.gov
Attention: Chris Stelly and Patrick Mulhearn
Put RE: 1. Name of Film Company
2. What Type of Complaint
3. and Date and Dates (dates worked not paid) of Incident
and/or
Write:
Louisiana Dept. of Economic Development
Louisiana Economic Development-Louisiana Film Office
Baton Rouge, LA 70802-5239
P.O. Box 94185
Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9185
It is best to email. Email is faster. Best not to call. WRITE.
You also write to the Production Company.
If they operate in Louisiana you can look up their Address in the Corporate Division of the Secretary of State Office, if they are registered to work in Louisiana.
For Springbreak 83
Write or email:
Joy Czerwonky, Producer
Big Sky Motion Pictures
650 North Bronson Ave. Ste B-128
Los Angeles, California 90004
Telephone 323-871-4466
Fax number 323-871-4467
with carbon copy also to LA Film Office.
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Texans:
...and contact:
Texas Film Commission
http://www.governor.state.tx.us/divisions/film/about/contact
.htm
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 13246
Austin, TX 78711
Phone: (512) 463-9200
Fax: (512) 463-4114
Email: film@governor.state.tx.us
and/or Texas Motion Picture Alliance
http://www.txmpa.org/main/
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Also, we will also have Patrick Mulhearn of LA Film Office to attend the December 4th Baton Rouge meetup meeting.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Newspaper article from the Hammond Star
Union Shuts Down Movie (by journalist, Brennen David):
The Screen Actors Guild and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees shut down filming of “Spring Break '83” Friday evening.
Mike McHugh, IATSE business agent, said Big Sky Motion Pictures committed a breach of contract when it discovered the movie barely had a week's worth of payroll in its account. IATSE requires two weeks' worth of payroll to be in deposit.
The union learned of the breach of contract after several complaints from crew members and extras not being paid. When SAG shut down filming Friday evening, “we followed suit and did the same,” McHugh said.
“We told the crew we couldn't guarantee any payment past Thursday,” McHugh said.
Springfield resident Treyson Thedy said he has not been paid for 19 days of work. The young extra said he has worked in several films and television shows before and has always been paid within two weeks. As of Monday, Thedy has been waiting a month for his first week's payment of work.
The Screen Actors Guild and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees shut down filming of “Spring Break '83” Friday evening.
Mike McHugh, IATSE business agent, said Big Sky Motion Pictures committed a breach of contract when it discovered the movie barely had a week's worth of payroll in its account. IATSE requires two weeks' worth of payroll to be in deposit.
The union learned of the breach of contract after several complaints from crew members and extras not being paid. When SAG shut down filming Friday evening, “we followed suit and did the same,” McHugh said.
“We told the crew we couldn't guarantee any payment past Thursday,” McHugh said.
Springfield resident Treyson Thedy said he has not been paid for 19 days of work. The young extra said he has worked in several films and television shows before and has always been paid within two weeks. As of Monday, Thedy has been waiting a month for his first week's payment of work.
“I call all the time and always get a different story,” Thedy said. “They said it's something to do with their accountant, but it's always a different story.”
Thedy said his two brothers and several friends have not been paid either.
Archie Trahan, production assistant, said he has not been paid one penny for two weeks of work. He said he should have known something was wrong when the film refused to give him a copy of his time sheet.
He thinks somewhere around 700 people are waiting for payment.
His fiancee, Sherry Richard, also worked two weeks as a production assistant, but has only received one week of pay.
“People work because they need money, not because it's fun to work on a movie set,” Richard said.
The movie was scheduled to finish filming Monday but was shut down in the process. The movie has been filming in the Tangipahoa and Livingston parishes area for several weeks, employing locals as extras and crew members.
Big Sky Motion Pictures could not be reached for comment.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
A letter to the head of the Lousiana SAG office
November 18, 2007
Ms. Shaw,
Hello. I am unsure what your exact jurisdiction is, but I am writing to see if your office has heard anything negative about the film project "Spring Break '83". I am a Texas based actor (SAGe) who did some extra work on their set and some concerns were raised by some of the others that things there may not be operating as they should. Several regular Louisiana extras told me that they had been working since the middle of October and had yet to be paid. My acquaintance was a wardrobe assistant and her entire department quit during the first week of November because they had not paid. From my own experience on set, I saw that the production was not run in an orderly fashion and I witnessed other extras being treated very poorly by members of the production.
Most of the extras and featured extras are not SAG or SAGe and therefore may not be aware of possible avenues in which to voice their concerns. At the suggestion of a friend, I am writing the Louisiana SAG office to see if these concerns were ever voiced or even if this situation merits further investigation.
I know you're a busy woman and I thank you so much for your time. Be blessed.
Sincerely,
(name withheld)
Ms. Shaw,
Hello. I am unsure what your exact jurisdiction is, but I am writing to see if your office has heard anything negative about the film project "Spring Break '83". I am a Texas based actor (SAGe) who did some extra work on their set and some concerns were raised by some of the others that things there may not be operating as they should. Several regular Louisiana extras told me that they had been working since the middle of October and had yet to be paid. My acquaintance was a wardrobe assistant and her entire department quit during the first week of November because they had not paid. From my own experience on set, I saw that the production was not run in an orderly fashion and I witnessed other extras being treated very poorly by members of the production.
Most of the extras and featured extras are not SAG or SAGe and therefore may not be aware of possible avenues in which to voice their concerns. At the suggestion of a friend, I am writing the Louisiana SAG office to see if these concerns were ever voiced or even if this situation merits further investigation.
I know you're a busy woman and I thank you so much for your time. Be blessed.
Sincerely,
(name withheld)
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