14 July 2023
To the members of SAG-AFTRA and the WGA

We are a coalition of independent film producers that stand with you in the fight for a fair contract and support the strikes against the AMPTP.

For over a decade, large technology companies and the traditional studios have used their oligopoly over the film and television industry to create a system that benefits no one but a small group of executives. This group has stated to the press that their goal is to force union members to lose their homes. We condemn this.

The callous and disastrous pursuit of unlimited content has led to the suppression of wages, shrinking residuals, unsafe sets, and the abuse of Artificial Intelligence to profit off of workers’ labor and likenesses without consent. This must end.

In Solidarity,

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  1. Jonathan Daniel Brown, Producer, Party Crasher Films, New York
  2. Gideon Bear Hamot, Producer, Party Crasher Films, Brooklyn, NY
  3. Meg Murnane, Producer, Brain Dead Studios, New York
  4. Samantha Quick, Producer, Independent, New York City
  5. Daniel April, Producer, Delhi
  6. Steve Smith, Director, DUMP LLC, Detroit
  7. Rhett Lindsey, Actor, Los Angeles
  8. Graham Mason, Producer, Brooklyn, NY
  9. Dave McVeigh Jr., Producer, Brooklyn
  10. Justin A Gonçalves, Director/Producer, New York City
  11. Chance Crimin, Independent Artist / Producer, Pack-A-Bowl Pictures
  12. Gage Lindsten, Art director, Brain Dead, Chicago
  13. Charlotte Ercoli, Director, Simulacra Pictures, Your mom
  14. Jeff Liu, Director, New York
  15. Owen Kline, Director, New York
  16. Elisha Yaffe, Writer/Actor/Producer, Cult Status, LOS ANGELES
  17. Riel Roch-Decter, Producer, MEMORY, Los Angeles
  18. Emerson Rosenthal, Screenwriter, New York
  19. Mary Neely, Actor/Director (sometimes producer), New York
  20. Paulo von Simson, Music Teacher, Lessons in Your Home, Flower Mound
  21. Lauren Boyle, Artist/Producer, DIS, New York
  22. anne alexander, producer, cousins, new york
  23. Rachel Walden, Producer/Director, Gummy Films, Brooklyn
  24. Matt Barats, actor/writer, SAG, New York
  25. Harris Gurny, Filmmaker, New York
  26. Lauren Greenhall, Director, New York
  27. Joey Izzo, Content laborer, I wish, Los Angeles
  28. Alex Eaton, Director, Brooklyn
  29. Claire McKey Berkman, Writer/Producer, Cavendish, VT
  30. Roger Mancusi, Producer, Fair Oaks, Brooklyn
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