Film and television producers are, at the core, accomplished problem-solvers on myriad levels. For Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line, who currently share the presidency of the Producers Guild of …
“The biggest refrain is ‘How can we get health insurance?’” says Allain, whose producing projects have included everything from “Boyz N the Hood” and “Muppets in Space” to “Dear White People” and the Academy Awards telecast.
“Stephanie and I want to make sure that … if [insurance] is not available, we get some kind of line item in every budget that would go toward covering producers’ healthcare costs to some degree, because we are the only ones on a call sheet who don’t have healthcare coverage,” De Line says. “We should be a part of [it] because we are oftentimes the generator of the idea,” adds Allain. “We buy the IP, we work for years sometimes to get this thing on its feet, and we’re only paid once prep starts. That could be a year, two years, five years, 10 years of work where we don’t get anything.
Now the PGA is taking an active hand in educating its membership on deal trends it sees emerging across the industry, says De Line, to say in essence “‘Here are the things you might want to discuss with your representative to make sure you could fight for in your deal, so you get some kind of profit participation, so you’re not cut too much on the upfront.’ Because we’re just not protected in that regard.
The PGA continues to develop and expand crucial resources for its membership including evaluating hundreds of productions to fairly and accurately determine producer credits, offer sexual-harassment education and legal advice, and provide longstanding, pioneering guidance on green production and sustainability standards.
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