Mark Gunn, The Writers Strike, How you can help!
Filmnut: Episode 209
Guest: Mark Gunn
Crew Position: Writer/ WGA Negotiator
Project: The Writers’ Strike
Website: http://www.wga.org
Additional Websites Of Interest:
http://www.unitedhollywood.com
Http://speechlesswithoutwriters.com
Last night’s show got a little more passionate then usual. My guest Mark Gunn? He was calm and rational. I was the one getting a little revved up. Gunn, coming from an earlier negotiating session that day, unfortunately did not have a strike settlement to announce but we did discuss the issues and where things are as of now. Viewers got to ask good questions and we showed snippets of clips that supported the writer’s point of view.
In case you want to see more of those clips they are here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzRHlpEmr0w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ55Ir2jCxk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z100VG3Xiss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a37uqd5vTw
For the opposing point of view here is a link to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers:
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
If you agree with the writers and want to help, you can, go here:
http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2007/11/pencils2mediamoguls.html
If you want to sign an electronic petition to support the writers you can easily do so here:
http://www.petitiononline.com/WGA/petition.html
If you want ot joing the picketers, picketing locations and schedule is here:
http://www.wga.org/subpage_member.aspx?id=2536
If you missed this or any episode of Filmnut you can watch it here:
www.thestream.tv/filmnut The episode with Mark Gunn is number 209.
Strikes are difficult for everyone, here is hoping for a quick and fair resolution for ALL sides involved.
Comments or questions on this show? Let me know here: http://www.thestream.tv/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1211
Thanks for checking us out!
Jeff Schubert
http://www.myspace.com/powerofnow