Pictures From the 2014 Oscar VFX Protest

2014 Oscar protest

The corporate machine is terrified of peaceful non-violent civil disobedience growing. Even half a dozen minority kitchen workers holding picket signs in front of a hotel which treats them like garbage highlights a societal ill.

We will be down at the Hollywood & Vine showing our support for the Visual Effects protest and hope to see you there as well.

Life After Pi

A short documentary which shows a very integral, yet extremely unappreciated and disrespected part of modern film making because of its fundamentally broken business model.

Trolled on Reddit

Quick moment to respond to this Reddit thread in which we’re taking some criticism.

We’ve “branded” ourselves with Occupy in our name because we share the same goals as the global Occupy Movement, as well as other bottom up movements which represent 99% of working people through out the world. Just like Occupy we are bottom up fighting a top down machine, doing our part to help organize (physically) and disseminate information. We are also thinking globally and acting locally on behalf of our little vfx industry, which is desperately suffering from the same negatives as many other industries throughout the 1st world which the larger movement has done an excellent job at bringing attention to. So regardless of what we call ourselves, we’re trying to do our part to help the situation get batter, rather than being passive and complacent.

Signs From The Oscar #VFXProtest

#vfxprotest at the Oscars

Life of PI, which has grossed over half a billion dollars internationally, is the sure bet to win the visual effects Oscar this year for some of the best character and environment work ever seen on screen which was intrigal to telling this story which 5 years ago, was technologically impossible to tell. At the same time the company that made the lead character of the film, Rythum & Hues is going out of business mainly as a result of being a causality of the 10+ year US VFX industry race to the bottom of chasing tax breaks, outsourcing, lowering wadges, and a un-unionized workforce.

We will be down at Hollywood & Vine to show our support. Not driving, taking the Metro of course.

Understanding Unions: The Good, The Bad & Unknown

Understanding Unions: The Good, The Bad & Unknown Of Forming A Visual Effects Collective Bargaining Organization- Part 1 from Visual Effects Society on Vimeo.

Understanding Unions: The Good, The Bad & Unknown Of Forming A Visual Effects Collective Bargaining Organization- Part 2 from Visual Effects Society on Vimeo.

IASTE representation card

For those of you who spend your lunch hour bitching about your company and the state of the industry, here’s a way you can take two minutes out of your day to start to doing something about it.

http://iatsevfx.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/iatserepcard-formatted.pdf

UNIONS – The people that brought you the weekend

Posting this to help show our support for the IATSE meetup this weekend. Get out there this Sunday June 3rd between 1 – 3 pm. Address:

The International Cinematographer’s Guild
7755 Sunset Blvd
Hollywood, California 90046

Additional information at vfx.iatse-intl.org