Indie Movies Secure Permission To Shoot During The Strikes

SAG-AFTRA strike July 2023

by James White |
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While the combined power of the writers guild strike and the newly mounted actors strike has brought the vast majority of film and TV productions to a grinding halt, some independent companies, including A24, have secured a waiver to keep shooting.

These smaller outfits benefit from the fact that they are not signatories with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), the body that represents the likes of the big studios, whose residual payment practices and other issues form the core of the industrial action.

SAG-AFTRA published a list of 39 projects approved under the waiver system so far, including Mother Mary, starring Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel, and Death Of A Unicorn, starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega, the latter scheduled to begin shooting soon in Hungary.

Some of the shows and films have already shot, but need the waiver's permission for its stars to promote them. Here's the full list:

A Desert

Aguadilla

Anniversary

Armadilla

Beneath the Grass

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

Beyond The Walls

Bob Trevino Likes It

Bride Hard

Death Of A Unicorne

Don't Move

Dream Devil

Dust Bunny

Exhibiting Forgiveness

F-PLUS

Flight Risk

Ganymede

Ick

Isaac

Just Breathe

King Ivory

Mother Mary

Mother, May I?

Mourning Rock

Osiris

Paradise And Lunch

Queen Of The Ring

The Capone

The Chosen

The Greatest Ever

The Killer's Game

The Ritual

The Short Game

The Sound

The Tower

The Watchers

The Yellow Tie

Rivals of Amziah King

Sell Out

Sight Unseen

Sod And Stubble

Transamazonia

Untitled Rebuilding Project

Week End Escape Project

Weekend Escape

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