The Hollywood Strikes Are Over. No One's Back To Work.
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🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
After waiting for two strikes to resolve, film and television crews across Hollywood were hungry to return to work. But the work has been slow to come back. As a number of crew union contracts expire at the end of July, how strong is their negotiating position?
Guests:
Diane Haithman, Senior Entertainment Business Reporter, TheWrap
Diego Mariscal, IATSE local 80 dolly grip
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Slate |
| 0:02.0 | Hey Slate listeners, I'm Christina Kauterucci, |
| 0:05.0 | the host of Sloburn Gays Against Briggs. |
| 0:08.0 | I want to tell you about a special event we're doing |
| 0:10.0 | at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on June 13th. |
| 0:14.2 | To celebrate this new season of Sloburn and Pride Month, we're hosting an exclusive live |
| 0:18.8 | taping of the show with special guests, including Civil Rights Activ activist and Black Lives Matter organizer |
| 0:24.1 | De Ray McKesson, comedian and singer Esther Falick, Eric Marcus, the host of |
| 0:29.0 | Making Gay History, and Sam Fader, director of the Netflix documentary disclosure about the depiction of |
| 0:35.0 | trans people in film and television. We'll dive deeper into this season and talk about |
| 0:39.6 | the lasting impact of the Briggs Initiative and the continued fight over LGBT |
| 0:43.6 | rights and schools. It'll be the perfect way to celebrate Pride Month this June |
| 0:47.8 | with LGBT-Q stories and voices across generations. Again, that's June 13th at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. |
| 0:56.0 | You can get tickets now at Tribeca Film.com slash Sloburn. |
| 1:00.0 | Hope to see you there. Diego Mariskal has one of those jobs you've definitely heard of, but you probably have no idea what he does. |
| 1:18.0 | Diego works in Los Angeles. He's a Dolly grip. |
| 1:22.0 | And that's the person who controls the moving platforms the camera sits on. |
| 1:27.0 | Diego's worked on big movies, Spider-Man, Ready Player 1. |
| 1:32.0 | On any given day, you can find him steering a telescoping crane |
| 1:35.9 | that wizzes a camera around to get majestic wide shots. |
| 1:39.8 | And when I go down, the camera goes up. I go up, it goes down. |
| 1:44.4 | It's the best, coolest job in the world. |
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