<FUD>The
chaos and box office turmoil a 15 min experimental short can unleash these days
is truly horrifying…</FUD>
.M.
http://modfilms.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=517#517
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From: "Suzanne Culph"
<suzanne.culph AT alliance.org.au>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:04:23 +1000
Cc: "Simon Whipp" <simon.whipp AT alliance.org.au>
Subject: AFC provides no Sanctuary
for Australian performers - Media Release
30 March 2005
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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