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Exports Are Up! Page 4 Flashpoint summer 2009 The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists Made in Canada See story Exports are up! page 4 Flashpoint The Bridge The Listener The Border The Guard Being Erica Introducing your new president… page 2 62315-1_interACTRA.indd 1 6/8/09 1:16:23 PM message from the president MeeT youR new PResIdenT Fuelled with optimism and dreaming big I am thrilled to be the newly elected What fuels my ACTRA Toronto, and more recently, have enthusiasm for National President of ACTRA. And I am been your National Treasurer and repre- proud to be the second woman to lead sentative on the AFBS Board. this work is my gut this union in our 66-year history. I whole- But this experience, serving 21,000 heartedly and humbly embrace my new members from coast-to-coast as your role and look forward to taking a bold, President, feels thrillingly new. certainty that I can holistic, long-term view in terms of fur- I fully respect branch autonomy, but thering the collective dreams we hold more than that, I understand it in my keep us all pulling in close to our hearts. DNA because I was there with Barry So who is your new fearless leader? Flatman and David Ferry at the beginning the same direction. I’m a performer in my bones and was born of restructuring in the early nineties. I in Charlottetown, P.E.I., raised in New believe it was an inspired design that has Brunswick and educated in Nova Scotia. helped us grow into the vigorous, member- Halifax was a wildly important incubator ship-run union that we are today. Members for me – as young artists, we flourished gained a strong direct relationship with continue to be groomed and hopefully in the ferment of so much energy in live their home branch in this intentionally deepened. Our eyes and ears will stay theatre and music. The cross-pollination decentralized world. Going forward, we attuned to collaborative opportunities has informed all of my artistic life. Much need to better understand who we are as with our strategic and coalition partners. of my passion as a performer comes from performers and where we’ll be five and In the short-term we have the prospect developing and telling Canadian stories, 10 years from now. of labour peace on our big contracts with sparked by decades of active collaboration Who are we now? Who do we aspire brand new Commercial and Independent with playwright Paul Ledoux. In 1979, to be? Who are the young actors who Production Agreements. This is truly a I first worked in ‘recorded media’ as a join ACTRA? Where will we be when the gift that allows us to direct our energy voice actor in numerous dramas for the boomer bulge is all silver-haired? Who toward enforcing those terms and being CBC Radio Drama Department in Halifax. are the actors who don’t see a culturally strategic advocates for public policy. For a few years I lived in Vancouver, but inclusive landing place for themselves in I will find every way possible to fuel our mostly worked at regional theatres in our union? This is challenging work and I fight for Canadian culture to increase other provinces and was part of the acting don’t pretend to have the answers – but Canadian dramatic content on our screens ensemble at the Banff Playwrights Colony. I promise to walk with my eyes wide open. of all sizes and increase work opportun- My ACTRA membership number is actually What fuels my enthusiasm for this work ities that reflect the full diversity of our a Winnipeg one, as I joined ACTRA in is my gut certainty that I can help keep us membership. 1984 when producers wanted to televise all pulling in the same direction. And, I When we talk about our union being a new Canadian play at MTC, Clearances, believe that the trust I have earned at the strong we do not mean our strength res- by Alf Silver. After that, Paul and I drove national table can allow us to achieve the ides only in our collective agreements. our VW camper van to Toronto and next level of solidarity as a union. With We are strong because we are not alone. immediately began working in television the pressures of globalization and mergers We have each other. We are 21,000 strong. and film. I’ve guested on most TV shows leading to the concentration of media in (especially when we had a bunch) and fewer and ever more powerful hands, the In solidarity, regularly work on Canadian and American need for seamless solidarity has never TV commercials. been greater. My second passion is serving the mem- As President I will keep my vision bers of our union, something I have done trained on the long-term view and the for the past 18 years on the Toronto and Big Picture. Relationships with our sister Ferne Downey 2 InterNationalACTRA Councils. summer I2009 served as President of unions, at home and internationally, will ACTRA National President 62315-1_interACTRA.indd 2 6/8/09 1:16:28 PM WHat’s inside your uniOn magazine... president’s message 2 by Ferne Downey COVER STOrY 4 made in Canada – tV exports are up! by Art Hindle We’re in the funny: aCTRA’s hilarious dames 9 p a g e 12 by Anne Marie Scheffler OLd SOUL MEETS NEW SOUL 12 WIDC 2010 a cast of veterans & newcomers is calling all actors by Eli Goree aCtORS HeLPING aCtORS 14 and women directors! mutual support: it’s in our DNA by Ferne Downey The acclaimed Women in the Director’s p a g e 14 Chair workshop is a one-of-a-kind profes- Bargaining updates 18 sional development offering in Canada, held it’s a (new) deal! annually in beautiful Banff, Alberta. This by Marit Stiles year it will be led by acclaimed Canadian Contract Q&a 19 actress and director, Helen Shaver. PUBLiC pOLiCY: stay tuned… again 20 Module 1 (directors only): by Joanne Deer December 4 to 7, 2009 p a g e 14 Cheers & Jeers 21 Module 2 (directors, actors and crew): January 14 to 31, 2010 BRANCH NEWs: updates from 22 Deadline women directors: maritimes, saskatchewan and toronto September 30, 2009 NEWs & actra.ca 24 Deadline actors & crew: things you should know October 31, 2009 FAREWeLL: Barbara Franklin, Joyce gordon, 25 For more information and p a g e 18 doreen ibsen, paul siren application forms go to: www.creativewomenworkshops.com APPLAUSE: aCTRA toronto award Winners, 26 the genie awards in Ottawa, the WgC awards, Leo awards, and more… The Women in Well in Hand 31 The DirecTor’s by Richard Hardacre BaCK COVER: it’s been a “gas” 32 chair Workshop p a g e 32 interACTRA summer 2009, volume 16, Issue 1 InterACTRA is the official publica- ContribuToRs: Tina Alford, Heather Enrico Colantoni (parker), david please return any undelivered mail to: tion of ACTRA (Alliance of Canadian Allin, dJ Anderson, mike Burns, Guy paetkau (sam) and mark Taylor (Lewis) ACTRA, 300 – 625 Church street, Cinema, Television and Radio Artists), Buller, Chris Cornish, Joanne deer, in CTv’s Flashpoint. photo by Ben mark pToronto, h o n e ontario m4y 2G1 a Canadian union of performers affili- Ferne downey, Eli Goree, Richard Holzberg, courtesy of CTv. 1-800-387-3516 or ated to the Canadian Labour Congress Hadley, Richard Hardacre, Anna (416)489-1311 LAYOUT: Joss maclennan design f a x (CLC) and the International Federation Falsetta, Chris Faulkner, Art Hindle, e m a i( l416)489-8076 printed in Canada by union labour @ of Actors (FIA). InterACTRA is free of d. Neil mark, dan o’Brien, marit stiles, interactra actra.ca at Thistle printing. w e b charge to all ACTRA members. dan macdonald, maureen macdonald, www.actra.ca Jocelyn Reneuve, Anne marie scheffler, All contents are copyright ©2009 Editorial AdvIsoRy Committee: publications mail Agreement #40069134 Theresa Tova, stephen Waddell, ACTRA. All rights are reserved and Joanne deer, Ferne downey, Brian ISSN 1705-9496 10% Christine Webber. contents, in whole or in part, may Gromoff, Richard Hardacre, d. Neil not be reprinted without permission. mark, Carol Taverner, Theresa Tova, Cover pHoTo: sergio di Zio (spike), stephen Waddell. michael Cram (Wordy), Amy Jo The points of view expressed do not Johnson (Jules), Hugh dillon (Ed), necessarily represent those of ACTRA. summer 2009 InterACTRA 3 62315-1_interACTRA.indd 3 6/9/09 12:37:45 PM Made in Canada s teve Wilkie teve 4 InterACTRA summer 2009 62315-1_interACTRA.indd 4 6/8/09 1:16:40 PM Made in Canada Exports are up! by Art Hindle u.s. Border guard: Canadian: “Are you carrying any Due South. Before that, E.N.G.Helen Shaverflirted with leading them to look elsewhere food, alcohol or tobacco?” CBS Robinonly to Gammell suffer the ignoble fate of being for product; u.s. Border guard: “No, But we have a number of copied by that network. WIOU ironically • the Canadian TV industry’s evolution hit TV series!” starred two of our own, as a producer of high-quality TV series, Canadian: and . When it premiered spurned by the ever-increasing talent “But no food, alcohol on CBS it was skewered by the critics and and excellence of our country’s directors, or tobacco?” negatively compared to E.N.G., then airing writers, crew, producers and actors; u.s. Border guard: “No, but we have a number of on the Lifetime cable network. WIOU was • the recent push by our private broad- hitCanadian: TV series!” taken off the air a couple of weeks later.
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