The Directors Guild of America’s National Board of Directors unanimously passed a resolution on runaway production at its June 26 meeting at DGA headquarters in Los Angeles, DGA President Jack Shea announced today. The vote took place following the presentation of the recently completed Monitor Company report on runaway production. The Monitor report was sponsored jointly by the DGA and the Screen Actors Guild.
"The Board recognized the seriousness of the problem posed by runaway production and acted accordingly," Shea said. "Our job now is to follow the Board’s mandate and explore any and all possible avenues that will help bring our members’ jobs back to the United States."
The following is the full text of the resolution as passed by the DGA’s National Board of Directors:
Whereas the National Board of the Directors Guild of America, having reviewed the study on the impact of runaway production on the motion picture and television industry prepared by the Monitor Company and having heard the reports and recommendations of our lobbyists and staff, recognizes the serious, detrimental effect runaway production has on the employment of the members of the DGA as well as actors, technicians, craftspeople, vendors and suppliers, and ultimately, the grave threat posed by runaway production to our communities, futures and livelihoods; and
Whereas limiting the flight of jobs and productions from the United States to other countries is a major priority of the Guild; then
Therefore be it resolved that the Guild shall continue to pursue our lobbying endeavors in Washington, D.C., in an effort to secure any possible federal governmental solutions—which may include legislative and executive branch activities—to the problem created by subsidies offered by other countries, the sole purpose of which is to lure U.S. motion picture, television and commercial production abroad in order to capture the significant number of jobs and the ancillary revenues that are generated by these productions; and
That the Guild shall examine, and when appropriate, actively support state and local measures that seek to create an attractive environment, economically and otherwise, for the motion picture and television industry; and
That the Guild shall continue to meet with our sister Guilds, as well as unions, producers, vendors, film commissioners and all other stakeholders in an effort to seek creative solutions to the problem of runaway motion picture, television and commercial production.
