SAG Indie Was Created So That SAG Actors Can Work In Low-Budget Movies
And…So Independent Films Can Use Professional Actors.
Remember Melissa Leo’s acting nomination, at last year’s Oscars? Frozen River was a SAG Indie film. I’ve seen her in at least 3 indies, this year. Big acting roles, and smaller ones.
Here’s a video with Tom Bower, an actor who has been active in SAG for years. I filmed him at the end of an event at AFI. Tom helped create SAG Indie, at SAG; and shares all about it.
Indie Filmmakers Can Download The SAG Contracts From SAG Indie’s Website
SAG tailored SAG Indie, specifically, to the needs and ease-of-utilization; for low-budget, novice, or smaller films.
SAG even has incentives for low-budget films that use SAG Indie contracts. They also have incentives when for casting diversified talent.
Here’s the website address to the SAG Indie site. http://www.sagindie.com. Here is a direct link to their PDF contracts page which includes contracts for short films, ultra low-budget, modified low-budget, low-budget, theatrical and film agreement, and the SAG Basic Agreement. There are monthly informational meetings, as well, to teach filmmakers, and actors, how to utilize the contracts.
It seems like a great thing. If anyone has experiential information, or an opinion on SAG Indie, I welcome it. Let me know…
Best,
;~Dana
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