Updated with latest: Actors Access is the latest target of a potential class action lawsuit for its pay-to-play model.
A week ago, the California-based public interest firm Clarkson Law filed suit against Casting Networks. Now it has set its sights on the Gary Marsh-owned service that allows actors to submit directly to casting breakdowns posted by casting directors.
Plaintiffs in the suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday are Kate Bond and Christian Jenkins — both of whom are local L.A. SAG board members — along with Robert Fisher, Amber Coyle and Donald Smith. Read the lawsuit here.
Breakdown Services owns and operates Actors Access and is believed to have a database of more than 1 million actors.
“Following the daily outpour of support from actors, industry insiders, and the public, after our filing against Casting Networks, we realized exactly how widespread this problem is throughout the online audition industry,...
A week ago, the California-based public interest firm Clarkson Law filed suit against Casting Networks. Now it has set its sights on the Gary Marsh-owned service that allows actors to submit directly to casting breakdowns posted by casting directors.
Plaintiffs in the suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday are Kate Bond and Christian Jenkins — both of whom are local L.A. SAG board members — along with Robert Fisher, Amber Coyle and Donald Smith. Read the lawsuit here.
Breakdown Services owns and operates Actors Access and is believed to have a database of more than 1 million actors.
“Following the daily outpour of support from actors, industry insiders, and the public, after our filing against Casting Networks, we realized exactly how widespread this problem is throughout the online audition industry,...
- 4/24/2024
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Margaret Salmon's Icarus (After Amelia)
The World’s first festival of folk cinema opens today at at Filmhouse Edinburgh, with further content available at the Scottish Storytelling Centre and online. With contributions from musicians including Margaret Bennett, Deirdre Graham, Jimmy Hutchison and Jess Smith, the eighth annual Folk Film Gathering has a packed programme of activities which will run until 1 July.
Dominated by Scottish films, the festival includes a screening of 1994 film Mairi Mhor, a powerful tribute to the Isle of Skye’s 19th century warrior poet, Mary McPherson, as well as brand new work from Margaret Tait Award-winner Margaret Salmon. There will be an evening dedicated to the films of Gerda Stevenson, incorporating a Q&a with the filmmaker herself, plus an event exploring cinematic representations of selkies, Scotland's mythical seal people, hosted by the Scottish Storytelling Centre’s Donald Smith.
This year marks the festival's return to...
The World’s first festival of folk cinema opens today at at Filmhouse Edinburgh, with further content available at the Scottish Storytelling Centre and online. With contributions from musicians including Margaret Bennett, Deirdre Graham, Jimmy Hutchison and Jess Smith, the eighth annual Folk Film Gathering has a packed programme of activities which will run until 1 July.
Dominated by Scottish films, the festival includes a screening of 1994 film Mairi Mhor, a powerful tribute to the Isle of Skye’s 19th century warrior poet, Mary McPherson, as well as brand new work from Margaret Tait Award-winner Margaret Salmon. There will be an evening dedicated to the films of Gerda Stevenson, incorporating a Q&a with the filmmaker herself, plus an event exploring cinematic representations of selkies, Scotland's mythical seal people, hosted by the Scottish Storytelling Centre’s Donald Smith.
This year marks the festival's return to...
- 6/17/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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