Hello Everyone! I'm producing an ultra-low budget sci-fi feature in Oregon. We recently became signatory and have an interim agreement in place. Since the majority of the actors are non-SAG, does anyone know if I will need to pay out P&H for the non-SAG actors, as well as the SAG actors? I would appreciate hearing your thoughts on this!
Producing : SAG Ultra-Low Budget Question by Phillip Wade
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Congrats on getting through the paperwork and becoming a signatory and getting an IA!
Never made a SAG film, so can't offer advice but I would say go back to the rep and ask questions. Never hurts. Curious to see what others have to say.
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Thanks, Sasha! It's great to meet you.
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Good question. It seems not, as they "must join" at some point. Unclear if you need to taft-hartly them. Call SAG.
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Phillip Wade I have two very important points to make: (1) you would not pay to or on behalf of non-sag people something due to sag people, unless your sag agreement says you must. (2) More importantly - you, as a producer, actually signed the SAG agreement without reading the SAG agreement and understanding what it requires you to do? No, no no, no no..... Literally no opinion expressed by anyone here is pertinent or informed about your situation without reference to your specific SAG agreement and situation.
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Phillip Wade to Shadow's point...READ EVERYTHING - twice...and the fine print three times. You're entering (or have entered) into a binding agreement with a large and powerful trade union. Also, when and if you get a distributor, do your best to get them to commit to a detailed Distribution Assumption Agreement whereby they, the distributor, is responsible for all the payouts due to your SAG actors and all others before you in the revenue waterfall.
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Contact SAG directly. I've found them to be super helpful.
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Agree with the advice here - always good to call the union directly. They are there to help and guide and SAG is great with sharing information like this.