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"Dear Hollyood" Series

The following is the full collection of articles in my 'Dear Hollywood' series with my impassioned pleas for the industry to value & respect all of us as human beings (rather than expendable widgets).

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Dear Hollywood: If We Don’t Speak Up Now, The Industry As We Know It Will Never Be The Same (It’s Gut Check Time)

Never let others determine your value. Only you can determine your value. Are you willing to speak up for the respect you deserve?

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Dear Hollywood: Loving What We Do Makes Us Easy to Exploit. Here’s Why.

If we don’t collectively start saying “no” to the rapid deevolution of our well-being as creatives, we’re careening towards a race to the bottom.

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Dear Hollywood: It’s Time For An Intervention About The Hours We Work

I believe not only CAN we find a solution to make 45 hours the new standard week in Hollywood, but we MUST find a solution because of Covid-19.

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Dear Hollywood: We Don’t Want to “Go Back to Normal.” Normal Wasn’t Working.

Let’s be honest with each other Hollywood: Normal wasn’t working. Things need to change before production begins again.

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Dear Hollywood: We’re Not “Lucky to Be Here”…You’re Lucky to Have Us

Those of us working in the filmmaking industry are willing to put up with ridiculous (and deadly)  working conditions that few other industries would deem acceptable. But the much deeper question is: Why?

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Dear Hollywood…We Create Entertainment For a Living. We’re Not Curing Cancer.

For those of us in Hollywood working behind computers in dark rooms for a living, will there ever come a time when we realize it’s counterproductive, unhealthy, and downright dangerous to work insane hours at the expense of our health and our creativity simply for the sake of our jobs?

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