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  • From: Nic Suzor <nic AT suzor.com>
  • To: Judith.Bannister AT flinders.edu.au
  • Cc: cc-au AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Cc-au] Re: Cc-au Digest, Vol 11, Issue 1
  • Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:52:39 +1000

Judith.Bannister AT flinders.edu.au [Wed Apr 06, 2005 at 09:58:34AM +0930]:
> The link to the following Media release is not working (blank). Can you
> help?

The text of the Media release follows:

Media Release

AFC provides no Sanctuary for Australian performers

"A performer with the head of a goat, spruiking for the Trotskyist
party on a pro-abortion platform, it.s all just part of the future
of film encouraged by the Australian Film Commission (AFC)", says
Simon Whipp, National Director, Media, Entertainment and Arts
Alliance.

"With Australian box office at historic lows of 1.3% of total film
box office, it seems that the AFC has some pretty strange ideas on
how to build box office," he said.

The Australian Film Commission has indicated it intends to fund
Sanctuary a .so-called. re-mixable film intended for theatrical
release, DVD and the Internet. It is being produced under a creative
commons licence, which means that the film can be modified, adapted
and reused by third parties without performer or producer consent or
payment.

"This means that a film that starts out with a performer in a
specific role could end up spliced and diced into a pornographic
scenario a million miles away from what the performer agreed to or
would feel comfortable with", Whipp said.

"You.ve got to wonder if this is how Government money should be used
in promoting the local film industry," he said.

"By funding this film the AFC will be party to the exploitation of
performers. In other jurisdictions performers as well as writers and
directors are protected from this exploitation by moral rights
laws."

In Australia all performers have to rely upon is the agreement
negotiated by their union, and the producer of this film has said it
will not use the union.s standard Feature Film Agreement, which
would prevent this exploitation.

"The US Screen Actors Guild (SAG) have endorsed our stance on
Sanctuary and stated that their members will not sign to any
productions, either on film, tape or digital, made under a creative
commons licence," Whipp said.

"The AFC have got is wrong on this production and it is Australian
performers who will suffer the consequences of their decision,"
Whipp predicted.

"The local film industry is precious to all Australians, and the
federal Government should have a long hard think about whether it
wants to fund our home grown performers digitally manipulated to
sound like aliens with heads of farmyard geese, talking about sex
with donkeys as they perform terrorist acts on the Sydney CBD."


Media enquiries: Simon Whipp 0413 153 059







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