Mumbai, American writer Chris Kesar, a prominent person in 2023 Hollywood Writers Walkout says that striking is never the first choice of workers, but many times, companies require “quantity of change” to pay attention to their demands. Is.
Over 11,000 Hollywood film and television writers were represented by Writers Guild of America, went on strike in May 2023, demanding better wages, high minimum wages, less exclusive contracts with more writers and other things.
Kesar, whose credit, included the Golden Globe-winning drama “Party of Five” and “The Society”, served as the Representative Chairman of the WGA for four years and later was the co-chairman of the Dialogue Committee during the strike.
“First of all, there is never a plan to go on strike. There is always a plan to make a deal … but it is true that sometimes you come into the talks that the business situation requires a quantity of change. Which can be beyond this, companies are ready to say yes without strike.
“, Therefore, in 2023, for example, we knew that the business was sufficiently broken, that we needed to demand so much from companies to fix it, that they were reluctant to work well. Can, “Saffron told PTI. In an interview here.
The strike, which ended after 148 days, released a summary of new conditions on its official website after the strike ended by the WGA. The agreement includes better salaries, minimal staff levels in the room of TV authors, better salaries for screenwriters and limited use of artificial intelligence.
Kesar and his team were engaged with the guild members and conducted a survey, and held meetings to reduce their concerns, and the closing of this collaborative attempt The development of the agenda happened.
“We spent months and months, in preparation for more than a year more than a year, companies are going into conversation with AMPPP, intending to make a deal. The decision of the strike comes in the period of time while you are those talks In the same way, as you see your companies are answering for us.
“By the time we reached the deadline, they were not giving us what we wanted to survive for business and so we called a strike. But it was to start, making and preparation of war in preparation One year and everyone should try to avoid asking everyone to leave work, “said Keyer.
The author, which is a guest in the 7th edition of the Indian screenwriter conference in Mumbai, was organized by the screenwriter Association of India, the need to bring back the spotlight to the authors doing ground work for the cinematic masterpiece Emphasized
“We are very clear as a community that it is the fact that everything starts with a script, okay? It is true in films and television. I am not myself in thinking that the author generally most prominent the most prominent The film process is going to be a participant, it is not to say.
“Some writer-directors have that kind of attention, and some writers have a type of brand name that they do. But the conversation is about to ensure that the rank and the new writer’s basic living status Businesses are enough to be able to continue in, and you can exclude a career from writing.
Kesar said that it is America, Europe or India, everywhere, writers have to face equal challenges.
“Authors worldwide face a lot of challenges. There are many structural benefits of authors in the United States, but the required questions are all the same, such as credit, adequate compensation for a standard contract, how we pay how we pay , Its questions are being treated with the reuse of our work, working in general working status, sensorship, and dignity.
“So, these things are repeated everywhere. There are issues that deal with American writer and European and Indian writers were similar in the way,” the author said, who has seen some of the earlier works of Satyajit Ray and Films like Irrfan Khan -Starrer “The Lunchbox” and Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine Az Light”.
Writing is not just a job for the kerish, which feels honored for a “rare gift” to share its attitude with the world as a story.
“This is an incredible honor that you are able to talk to people about those things you believe through a story, to share an attitude about life and the world through a story. There is a rare thing. I do not have a public, but I can do with the people I work with, I talk to so many people in the world What do you mean
Kesar has a group of diverse projects in the pipeline, which includes a show based on the popular American drama “Tech Me Out” and a family about a show that owns a wedding chapel in Las Vegas. He also said that he is in talks with Netflix for a project.
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