The Writers Guild strike goes on, but theres peace on onelaborfront in the entertainment industry.
According to the parties involved, We are aiming to ratify our 2-year contract in the next 45 days.
The CWA, IDA and DWU added, This is an important moment for the documentary field.
We hope that others follow suit in recognizing, investing in, and supporting documentary workers.
We feel this is a great first contract, said Kenyon Johnson, CWA Local 9003s executive board member.
Though we faced some difficult moments, we made it through.
I hope we did our members proud, and that the Bargaining Unit votes to ratify.
Ikeda took over as interim ED after the departure of Perez.
The IDA provides direct grants to documentary filmmakers in support of production and development of nonfiction film projects.
It also publishes Documentary magazine.
