Spanish Screenings Goes to Cannes, a selection of five pix in post which underscores the ever broadening compass – in genre, setting, protagonists, production bases and models – of film production in Spain. “Sima’s Song,” for example, is set in 1979 Kabul, “Jumping the Fence” on the Morocco-Spain border in Africa. Many titles, though still in post production, come laden with prizes as projects, prestige deals or rich talent. “Sima’s Song,” from Afghan director Roya Sadat, whose “A Letter to the President” was shortlisted for an Oscar, won the Taicca Award at Busan’s Asian Project Market and the IFI-Pas Award at Mumbai’s Film Bazaar. Its producer, Alba Sotorra, was nominated for an International Emmy as a director for “The Return: Life After ISIS.”
Is Writer Pay Up or Down? Depends How You Look At It
03.04.2023 - 17:33 / variety.com
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Labor negotiations are typically marked by revolutionary rhetoric followed by incremental gains. For all the pre-game talk about rewriting the economic order, the end result typically looks like three yards and a cloud of dust. The Writers Guild of America argues that its current negotiation is different, and that it must result in a dramatic overhaul of writer compensation. Central to that case is the claim that writer pay is declining. But is it? The guild has cited internal survey data showing that TV writer-producer weekly pay has dropped 4% (or 23% adjusted for inflation) since 2013.
That claim is subject to some scrutiny. The guild does not release its full surveys, just a handful of statistics. But taking those at face value, all of the decline occurred between 2013 and 2015.
Since then, median weekly pay is up in nominal terms, and is even up slightly when adjusted for inflation. The guild began doing surveys with the 2013-14 TV season. But for decades before that, the WGA has been measuring film and TV writer pay based on dues collections, and releasing detailed data tables in its annual reports. Those figures tell a fairly simple story. Since 1995, the average writer is doing about the same. Average writer earnings in 1995, adjusted to 2021 dollars: $261,000. Average writer earnings in 2021: $260,000. Average earnings do not account for the sizable number of WGA members who, in any given year, earn nothing from writing. The WGA has not released a median annual figure since 2014, when it was $140,000 (in 2021 dollars, for the sake of consistency). The data also doesn’t factor income from producing, which can lead to much higher paydays. But looking at the data that is
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