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In a sign of support for the union’s latest contract and growth, Jeanette Moreno King has been re-elected president of The Animation Guild, the IATSE Local announced on Monday.
Steve Kaplan was also re-elected business representative and Paula Spence was reappointed recording secretary in Tag’s latest Guild Officers and Executive Board election. Teri Hendrich Cusumano was elected vice president and Danny Ducker was selected as sergeant-at-arms. After voting opened on Oct. 24 for Tag members, ballots were counted and certified on Saturday, with the process supervised by the Aaa.
“We accomplished much during the last three years — organizing production staff, expanding to a national union, big gains in our last contract negotiations, and all during a pandemic and social and political unrest,” Moreno King said in a statement on Monday. “The fact that I get to keep representing this amazing community for...
In a sign of support for the union’s latest contract and growth, Jeanette Moreno King has been re-elected president of The Animation Guild, the IATSE Local announced on Monday.
Steve Kaplan was also re-elected business representative and Paula Spence was reappointed recording secretary in Tag’s latest Guild Officers and Executive Board election. Teri Hendrich Cusumano was elected vice president and Danny Ducker was selected as sergeant-at-arms. After voting opened on Oct. 24 for Tag members, ballots were counted and certified on Saturday, with the process supervised by the Aaa.
“We accomplished much during the last three years — organizing production staff, expanding to a national union, big gains in our last contract negotiations, and all during a pandemic and social and political unrest,” Moreno King said in a statement on Monday. “The fact that I get to keep representing this amazing community for...
- 11/14/2022
- by Katie Kilkenny
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Up until March, writer-director Jorge Gutiérrez was “someone who basically used to live at the office.” Since shifting to a work-from-home setup amid the pandemic, he has been able to have lunch with his wife and 10-year-old son every day, all the while continuing to work on his animated Netflix project “Maya and the Three,” a Mesoamerican epic that he likes to call “‘Lord of the Rings’ with brown people.”
“It’s weird — it’s almost like we’ve been training for this for years, and our time has finally come,” says Gutierrez. “We’re so used to working with studios all over the world, and a lot of times we work with artists all over the world. It’s a remote business and there are no sets — everybody’s drawing, and it all comes together on the computer. So we’re kind of set up for this.”
The animation...
“It’s weird — it’s almost like we’ve been training for this for years, and our time has finally come,” says Gutierrez. “We’re so used to working with studios all over the world, and a lot of times we work with artists all over the world. It’s a remote business and there are no sets — everybody’s drawing, and it all comes together on the computer. So we’re kind of set up for this.”
The animation...
- 5/27/2020
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
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