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EXCLUSIVE: With the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike entering its second month in the U.S., writers and filmmakers around the world are taking note of how these issues play out in their own countries.
In India, home to several big film industries and an OTT production boom, local talent agency Tulsea and data firm Ormax Media have conducted a survey of Indian writers that reveals fault lines across several areas.
While 65% of surveyed writers said pay levels have improved in recent years, 63% believe they are not being paid fairly, with timeliness of payments impacting 47% of writers directly.
The survey, ‘The Right Draft: 2023’, also found that 53% of writers are dissatisfied with the credit they receive for their work, with that figure rising to as much as 80% for credits in some areas of marketing and promotion.
Other areas explored by the survey include quality and timeliness of feedback; the importance that producers place on scripts vis-à-vis stars in the theatrical and OTT industries; the growth of writers’ rooms; and access to mentoring, grievance redressal and other forms of industry support.
“Some results matched our expectations, some startled us,” said Tulsea’s Radhika Gopal in a prologue to the report. “On the positive side, across a few parameters, the writers we surveyed did note that things are better than they used to be a few years ago.
“However, overall the message is clear – there is much that we, as an industry, need to do to make our writers feel truly empowered, valued, enabled, and respected.”
The survey was conducted with 217 film and series writers in India, working across Hindi, English and South Indian-language projects, of which 70% were male and 30% female. Writers aged between
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