Background News - Inflation

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Links

Useful Background Links:

GENERAL

Background Beat (A great forum. Lots of useful information)
Membership First (Should be renamed "Principals First" !)
New Mexico Background Actors. Great website, well done Nathan.
SAG Actor Bulletin Board
Sag Firebird (blog - needs updating)
SAG Watchdog (interesting information, but too many distracting flashing things on the webpage)
Showfax Discussion Board
Stunt Players Forums
USAN (United Screen Actors Nationwide). A New York group opposed to Membership First.
Wild Bunch of Hollywood (Support these Background Actors, they are working for us)
Wild Ogre Forums (Useful information, website is for sale)

NEWS GROUPS
To access these Usenet news groups, first go to http://groups.google.com/
Then type in the name of the group and join it.

PUBLICATIONS

UNIONS

AEA (Actors Equity Association). The Union for Live Theater Actors & Stage Managers.
AFTRA (American Federation of Television & Radio Artists).
ATA (Association of Talent Agents). The Union for Talent Agents.
CSA (Casting Society of America). The Union for Casting Directors, now a division of Teamsters.
DGA (Directors Guild of America).
IATSE ("The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada") Rather a long title as the Union for Crew, usually shortened to IATSE (Eye-Atsy) when referring to it.
SAG (Screen Actors Guild)
Teamsters, International Brotherhood of. The Union for Drivers on the set.
WGA (Writers Guild of America)

If you have any constructive comments about this website, please E-mail us.

This website is not affiliated with SAG, AFTRA, IATSE , DGA nor any Production Company, Casting Agency or Calling Service.