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Los Angeles (July 28, 2010) – Screen Actors Guild today announced election results for the Arizona Branch elections.
Candidates elected from the Arizona Branch include:
Steven A Fried, National Board Director, three-year term
Elaine Moe, Vice President Northern Arizona, three-year term
Barbara Faye Glover, Vice President Southern Arizona, three-year term
Los Angeles (July 28, 2010) - Screen Actors Guild today announced election results for the Nashville Branch elections.
Candidates elected from the Nashville Branch include:
Michael Montgomery, President two-year term
Cece DuBois, Vice President, two-year term
Carla Christina Contreras, Secretary/Treasurer, two-year term
David Clyde Carr, Council Member at Large, two-year term
Los Angeles (July 28, 2010) - Screen Actors Guild today announced election results for the Florida Branch elections.
Candidates elected from the Florida Branch include:
Nancy Duerr, National Board Member, three year term
Steve Gladstone, President, two year term
Ellen Wacher, Vice President, two year term
Patrick Mickler, Recording Secretary, two year term
Los Angeles (July 27, 2009) - Screen Actors Guild today announced election results for the Portland Branch elections.
Candidates elected from the Portland Branch include:
Doug Baldwin, Council Member at Large (three-year term)
Helena De Crespo, Council Member at Large (three-year term)
George Fosgate, Council Member at Large (three-year term)
Michelle Mariana, Council Member at Large (three-year term)
Los Angeles (July 27, 2010) — Screen Actors Guild today announced election results for the Seattle Branch elections. Candidates elected from the Seattle Branch include:
Abby Dylan, National Board Member (three-year term)
Alex Terzieff, Council Member at Large (two-year term)
Gary Schwartz, Council Member at Large (two-year term)
Rik Deskin, Council Member at Large (two-year term)
Lashon Watson, Council Member at Large (two-year term)
SAG National Board of Directors Appoints Bob Bergen
National Chair of Television Animation and Basic Cable Animation
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LOS ANGELES AND NEW YORK (July 20, 2010)— Actors’ Equity Association, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and Screen Actors Guild today announced that the International Federation of Actors, also known as FIA (Fédération Internationale des Acteurs), has endorsed the unions’ global I AM PWD campaign.
July 15, 2010 – Screen Actors Guild joined other actor unions and entertainment industry advocates in their support of finalizing an international treaty on audiovisual performances, which would enhance actors’ rights and protections worldwide.
SAG Awards® Nominees will be Announced on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010 and SAG Awards® Ceremonies will be Simulcast on TNT and TBS on Sunday Jan. 30, 2011
Los Angeles (July 12, 2010) – Submissions of performances for consideration for the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® nominations opened today and will close on Thursday, Oct. 28, at 5 p.m. (PST), it was announced today by SAG Awards® Committee Chair JoBeth Williams.
LOS ANGELES (June 22, 2010) – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), Directors Guild of America (DGA), International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada (IATSE), and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) today released the following statement:
LOS ANGELES (May 24, 2010) – Screen Actors Guild today announced that Gloria Stuart and Paul Napier have been selected to receive the Hollywood Division’s prestigious Ralph Morgan Award, the highest service award given by the Hollywood Division. The honor will be bestowed Saturday, June 19 as part of the Annual Hollywood Division Membership Meeting at the Sportsmen’s Lodge.
Washington, D.C. (May 23, 2010) — The nation’s top union leader, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, addressed leaders from the Screen Actors Guild Regional Branch Division (RBD) at their annual board meeting Saturday in Washington, D.C. The RBD includes 20 Branches spanning from Boston to Hawaii. Nearly 28,000 Screen Actors Guild members who work in film and television live in the regional branches.
What: AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will address Screen Actors Guild Regional Branch Division leaders at annual board meeting in Washington, D.C. The guest speaker will be introduced by SAG President Ken Howard and SAG 3rd National Vice President David Hartley-Margolin.
What: Screen Actors Guild Regional Branch Division leadership and the Washington-Baltimore leadership of SAG/AFTRA host a special celebration to honor Sheldon Smith, recipient of the prestigious Howard Keel Award.
Los Angeles (May 13, 2010) - On April 26, 2010, Newsweek printed an article entitled “Straight Jacket” in which contributor Ramin Setoodeh contends that audiences do not accept openly gay actors playing straight roles, while offering no proof to support this claim other than his own discomfort. Screen Actors Guild rejects the notion that lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) actors are restricted in the roles they can play.
May 7, 2010 (Sante Fe, N.M.)—Screen Actors Guild President’s National Task Force for American Indians, in conjunction with Robert Redford Enterprises and the state of New Mexico, presents one of its acclaimed Diversity Acting Workshops today in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Los Angeles (April 20, 2010) – The Screen Actors Guild members who will select the nominees for the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® have been selected by random sample from the entire pool of active SAG members nationwide, SAG Awards® Committee Chair JoBeth Williams announced today. Williams also announced the key deadlines and events leading up to the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® on Sunday, Jan.
Read MoreLos Angeles, (April 19, 2010) — To commemorate the many advancements made in LGBT films this past year, Screen Actors Guild National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Actors Committee, in association with SAG New Media signatory MIPtalk.com, presented a screening of the 2009 GLAAD Media Award-winning film Shelter on Saturday, April 17, 2010, to an enthusiastic, capacity audience in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (April 19, 2010) - Screen Actors Guild is hosting its second indoor carnival and informational fair to celebrate the launch of its new Young Performers website. The last indoor carnival celebrated the launch of the updated SAG Young Performers Handbook in 2007. Hundreds of SAG young performers have been invited to attend the event, which features games, raffles, information booths, an interactive tour of the new website, a Wii Lounge and more.
Read MoreLos Angeles, (April 18, 2010) - Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors, meeting in a two-day plenary in Los Angeles, appointed President Ken Howard as Chair of the Guild's TV/Theatrical Joint Wages and Working (W&W) Conditions Plenary and Negotiating Committees.
Approved unanimously, the action states:
Celebrities to Play in Summer Tournament
Los Angeles (April 12, 2010) - The SAG Foundation Inaugural Golf Classic, which was postponed due to weather conditions, has now been rescheduled to take place August 16, 2010.
Updates regarding this benefit for the SAG Foundation Catastrophic Health Fund will follow.
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Music, Movie, and Television Creators Embrace New Business Models, but Cite Growing Threat to Jobs from Copyright Theft
Washington, DC (March 24, 2010) – A wide coalition representing American movie, television and music industry and labor groups today urged the Federal Government to bolster its efforts to protect intellectual property and protect the jobs and wages lost because of content theft.
Read More(March 24, 2010) — The following letter was delivered to President Obama and other members of his administration urging global intellectual property protection in the digital environment. Signers of the letter included SAG, AFTRA, DGA, IATSE, MPAA, RIAA, AFM and other entertainment organizations.
President Barack Obama
The President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
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