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VOLUME 12 NUMBER 3 Summer 2016 what’s inside 24 Features 14 68th Primetime Emmys List of Local 706 nominees 16 All the Way The hair and make-up teams bring history to life 24 Swiss Army Man This year’s most anticipated film at Sundance is uncomfortable but full of heart 14 16 Departments 4 From the President Feature Film Production Study 6 Local Perspective 8 Guild News Regional membership events 11 Calendar of Events 12 Theater News 28 Education News 28 32 Extended Family News 34 Last Looks Cover: Bryan Cranston as LBJ in All the Way. (Photo: Hilary Bronwyn Gayle/HBO) 33 EDUCAT ION PRESIDENT THEATER EDUCAT ION NEWS FROM THE PRESIDENT THEATER NEWS Now that the pendulum has swung back to California as the leader of film and television production, we suddenly have an influx of film and television artisans from east of the Mississippi who have come to California with their tools and kits in hand. I have always Official Magazine of Hollywood felt that our own Local only benefits from new, talented blood. They need to understand that Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists. our eligibility and qualification methods are different and should be honored. There are our Published in the Interest of own members who wish the door had been locked when they got in, never realizing that our ALL the Members of Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists I.A.T.S.E. Local 706 membershipLOCAL is actually holding rather steady—almost as many are quietlyNEW retiring. SThe greatest increase in LOmembershipCAL BUSINESS has been through Disneyland. EXTENDED FAMILY NEWS GUILD Supervising Editor GUILD NEWS A total of 19 California-made film projects were released theatrically in 2015 (16 live-action JEFF ANGELL films and three animated films), giving the state an edge over its competitors in total project Contributing Writers count. The 19 projects that filmed in California brought an estimated $720 million in total SUSAN CABRAL-EBERT production spending to the state, placing the state behind the United Kingdom, which had TOMMY COLE $1.63 billion in production spending. (Concerns are now brewing about new taxes on shoots RANDY SAYER in Europe, and the ability for media companies to hire and work across the continent.) “This reportREPO highlightsRT both the aggressiveness of our competitors for featureLOOKS film projects and FROM THE SECRETARY- TREASURER LAST LOOKS Publisher the effectiveness of California’s Film & Television Tax Credit Program,” observed FilmLA INGLEDODD MEDIA President Paul Audley. “Compared to its competitors, California is attracting big production investment with modest incentive outlays.”* Office Manager KATHY SAIN Some of the report’s notable findings include: • The 109 films studied by FilmLA represent more than $7 billion in direct production Mailing List Manager spending. Budgets for sampled films ranged from $1 million to more than $300 million. DIANE BURNS • InLETTER terms of projectS count, California’s top competitors were the UKNEW (15 projects),S Georgia & LouisianaLETTERS (12 projects) TO THE and ARCanadaTISAN (11 projects). New York, which had HErankedALTH second AND in WELF ARE NEWS the 2014 Feature Film Production Study with 13 projects, fell out of the top five production The Artisan is published quarterly centers in 2015, with seven projects. by Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists, • Of the California-based live-action films, 44 percent (seven out of 16 projects) were made in I.A.T.S.E. Local 706, 828 No. Hollywood the state thanks to the California Film & Television Tax Credit Program. Way, Burbank, CA 91505 Phone (818) 295-3933. Fax 818-295-3930 • The only films with budgets more than $100 million that were produced in California were All editorial and photo submissions animated projects. None of the large-budget live-action films were produced primarily in should be sent to email address: California. [email protected] • ForHIGHLIGHTS the first time on record, California did not host any of the top 25CRE live-actionW films at the HIGHLIGHTS AND SHADOWS CREW SHOTS worldwide box office in 2015. Advertising: • Future studies should show increases for California as the state’s $330 million Film & IngleDodd Media Television Tax Credit Program reaches full utilization. The 2016 report will include at least (310) 207-4410 two films produced in California using the new tax credit—The Conjuring 2 and CHiPs.* [email protected] www.IngleDoddMedia.com Years ago, I was asked to find artisans from Local 706 who would travel to other regions to teach our trade secrets to others outside of Hollywood. There are two ways of looking at the situation; one is to decline and let productions be forced into hiring ourCREDITS own members because Officers of I.A.T.S.E. Local 706 of theirEVENTS skills and abilities. The other was to agree (1) and receive the wrath of the membership, President CALENDAR OF EVENTS PHOTO CREDITS Susan Cabral-Ebert or (2) train novices so that when our members had to hire locally, the talent base would be Vice President more sophisticated. I chose the first option. Julie Socash Recording Secretary Now, the incentivized producers are mandating that only department heads and their key artists Vanessa Dionne are allowed to come from California. They want to force everyone local to be hired and are Secretary-Treasurer pulling them out of salons to work, talent or not. Commitment to John E. Jackson the filmmaking process … or not. They are completely sacrificing Sergeant-at-Arms quality of work in place of the tax incentives. Indeed, they are Barbara Dally forcing us to train our replacements or not take the job. Business Representative Tommy Cole SUSAN CABRAL-EBERT President *excerpted from the FilmLA 2015 Feature Film Production Study 4 FX NETWORKS CONGRATULATES OUR EMMY® AWARD NOMINEES OUTSTANDING HAIRSTYLING FOR A LIMITED SERIES MONTE C. HAUGHT CHRIS GLIMSDALE CHRIS CLARK Department Head Hairstylist Department Head Hairstylist Department Head Hairstylist FREDRIC ASPIRAS JUDY DURBACZ NATALIE DRISCOLL Personal Hairstylist Assistant Department Head Hairstylist Key Hairstylist DARLENE BRUMFIELD PENNY THOMPSON SHAY SANFORD-FONG Hairstylist Additional Hairstylist Hairstylist KELLY MULDOON CINDY FERGUSON KATRINA CHEVELALIER Additional Hairstylist Additional Hairstylist Additional Hairstylist GINA BONACQUISTI TRACY MURRAY Additional Hairstylist Additional Hairstylist OUTSTANDING MAKEUP FOR A LIMITED SERIES ( NON- PROSTHETIC) ERYN KRUEGER MEKASH GAIL KENNEDY ERYN KRUEGER MEKASH Department Head Makeup Artist Department Head Makeup Artist Department Head Makeup Artist KIM AYERS JOANNE PREECE ZOE HAY Assistant Department Head Makeup Artist Assistant Department Head Makeup Artist Department Head Makeup Artist MICHAEL MEKASH GUNTHER SCHETTERER HEATHER PLOTT Assistant Department Head Makeup Artist Key Makeup Artist Assistant Department Head Makeup Artist SILVINA KNIGHT DANIELLE HANSON DEBORAH HUSS HUMPHRIES Makeup Artist Key Makeup Artist Makeup Artist JAMES MACKINNON LUIS GARCIA Makeup Artist Makeup Artist SARAH TANNO BECKY COTTON Makeup Artist Makeup Artist OUTSTANDING PROSTHETIC MAKEUP FOR A LIMITED SERIES ERYN KRUEGER MEKASH BART MIXON KEVIN KIRKPATRICK Department Head Makeup Artist Special Makeup Effects Artist Makeup Artist MIKE MEKASH JAMES MACKINNON DAVID LEROY ANDERSON Assistant Department Head Makeup Artist Makeup Artist Prosthetic Designer BRADLEY A. PALMER GLEN EISNER Special Makeup Effects Artist Prosthetic Designer THE ARTISAN MATERIALS DUE: MONDAY, 8/1 FX EMMY CONGRATS AD THIS AD RUNS: MONDAY, 8/8 4/C | FULL PAGE | WITH BLEED BLEED: 8.625" W X 11.125" H 1F TRIM: 8.375" W X 10.875" H 3512-9 08/01/16 SAFE: 7.875" W X 10.375" H FX_Artisan_0808_4CFP_1F PDF/X-1a:2001 LOCAL BY TOMMY COLE LOCAL PERSPECTIVE Business Representative, I.A.T.S.E. Local 706 By the time this issue of The Artisan goes out to our member- Constitution; the Recording Secretary shall make a hand-writ- ship, our film and television industry should be in full swing ten record of the minutes of all meetings and turn over those for another season throughout the state. With that in mind, notes to the Local to be typed; the Sergeant-at-Arms shall be whether a department dead or a day checker, one of the most present at all General and Special Meetings, and shall preserve important skills you should be proficient at when starting a order and enforce compliance with the rules and regulations as job, besides having an all-around talent of your craft, is to set forth in both the Local and the International Constitution; know your contracts and your rights the Executive Board shall consist of in the workplace. Throughout the year, elected members from each craft, and we get calls from our members asking shall have the power to act at any time, questions about every subject imagin- and to pass such rulings as may be able on the multitude of contracts necessary for the proper functioning our artisans work under. Many of and general welfare of the Local, and them have never looked at a contract shall consider for approval, payment or know what is expected of them. of bills recommended by the Board of Whether you are someone in charge Trustees; the Board of Trustees, sim- of a crew, or jumping from show to ply put, looks after and protects our show, the more knowledgeable you are financial assets along with the union’s of the contracts you are working under, property; they look at all monthly bills the more prepared you will be for the due, along with monies needed for unforeseen issues that come up. If you ... if you approach union travel, lodging, events or other don’t know the rules, how will you issues that arise and recommends pay- know if you are being taken advantage each day with a ments to the Executive Board. of? How will you know what questions One thing that I have found after to ask and to whom? To help you hone cheerful and years of working on sets is, if you your contractual skills, I suggest a little “ approach each day with a cheerful and reading and a little studying.