Producers Guild Presidents to Writers: Why We're With You in This Fight

Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line explain how their trade organization's battles parallel the issues underlying this spring's strike On May 19 at a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival, Sean Penn railed against the Producers Guild of America and called us the "Bankers' Guild," which is hilarious, because we're anything but the Bankers' Guild. A major point of focus for the past several years is the fact that we are the only artist on a union production that has no minimum salary and no health insurance. For those of us who are fortunate enough to work on certain productions that qualify, there is an opportunity to get insurance through the Motion Picture Industry Pension & Health Plans, but you have to qualify for it, most people don't know about it, and you have to elect it immediately or you can't get it.