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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can get very inexpensive accommodations in Santa Fe, especially if booking off season (now) and in bulk. The production was being cheap and irresponsible in refusing to provide accommodations closer to set when so many shoots were running late into the night. That’s just bad management, full stop. About what you would expect from a non-union production that was cutting every corner.[/quote]

But was it a non union production? I’d like to know what contract they were working under.[/quote]

That’s still unclear. It sounds like there was a mix of Union and non-Union labor even before some union members quit the set. That’s not unusual for a shoot in a place like NM— they don’t require union labor as California does, but the film industry is established enough there that it would be hard to impossible to staff a set entirely with non-union labor (and you would not want to).

It definitely sounds like it was precisely the kind of poorly run set that IATSE is specifically trying to get addressed with their recent demands. This is precisely why IATSE is raising issues of workplace safety— because productions that are not committed to workplace safety and motivated strongly by keeping costs low will cut corners on everything from accommodations to crew staffing (did I read that the production didn’t even have a prop master, on a set using live rounds? Wth?) and it puts everyone at risk.

Something that makes me sick is that I wonder if scrutiny would be so high right now if the person who died had been a gaffer or cameraman, instead of the cinematographer. People are so dismissive of crew safety in this industry. Often the assumption is that these jobs carry inherent risk that is no big deal, which is offensive and dangerous.  No one should ever have to risk their life to get a movie made. No one.[/quote]

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