budget Covid budgets

[JMee1000]

Hi,
Has anyone out there adjusted any of your project budgets yet to be inclusive of the guilds new Covid guidelines? Advice? Outcome?

https://www.producersguild.org/blogpost/923036/354785/PGA-S-COVID-SAFETY-PROTOCOLS-AUG-31

 

[JMee1000]

No one? I’m hearing Producers are not happy and are rebelling against these guidelines - asking the Guild to revise them. Anyone know anything about that?

 

[sfoster]

I looked at the rules and decided not to hire sag actors for my next film, it was too much expense.
ultra low budget does not exist under those guidelines.

 

[directorik]

Hi,
Has anyone out there adjusted any of your project budgets yet to be inclusive of the guilds new Covid guidelines? Advice? Outcome?

We have decided to wait. The guidelines are important but adds too
much to a low budget show.

 

[JMee1000]

FYI I am not that level up to decide on my projects

but I’m being asked by 1 filmmaker to disregard guilds Covid since we aren’t guild - Ok that’s easy and then to go get XYZ A-listed SAG members who feel masks and rules is crap ... umm ... okay, but umm...

 

[mlesemann]

go get XYZ A-listed SAG members who feel masks and rules is crap ... umm .

It's extremely unlikely that SAG members will do a non-SAG movie, leaving aside COVID - and certainly no A list actor will.

And certainly the health and safety of both your cast and crew need to take priority - that's always true.

 

[directorik]

I’m being asked by 1 filmmaker to disregard guilds Covid since we aren’t guild - Ok that’s easy and then to go get XYZ A-listed SAG members who feel masks and rules is crap ... umm ... okay, but umm...

Sounds like that 1 filmmaker is a fool.

Do you know how well he's doing getting a cast and crew?

 

[JMee1000]

i do know and you might be surprised to see how much decent crew but the crew is going to step one, it’s the Alist SAG and lack of escrows funded to secure attached Alist that concerns me the most

any idea what I can do to mitigate naive expectations vs real world?


**i don’t think any producer’s package like I described above is even likely to attach a coproduction company

 

[mlesemann]

Are you directly involved with this project?