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This is from the Screen Actors Guild website:
SAG Agent of the Month
Who will be the next SAG Agent of the Month?
Hey, SAG performers! Are you represented by a terrific, franchised agent that you believe does not get the recognition that he or she deserves? Is your agent always there for you, guiding your career, advising you, watching your back, and generally being a mensch without much fanfare or praise? Well, now is your chance to change all of that!
Let us know why your agent is the best agent out there and he or she may be the next SAG Agent of the Month. Tell us (and the world) in your own moving way why your agent is special to you. And, if chosen, SAG will run a picture of your agent (and you!) celebrating your agent’s star status as SAG Agent of the Month.
Mention this program to your fellow SAG performers, and keep those letters coming. We will choose a different agent at the start of every month and feature the honoree on SAG’s website for the world to see. With your help, your agent can finally get those richly deserved kudos!
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promoting a good relationship between actors and their agents, is a really good idea.
In all fairness to SAG. There’s nothing wrong with realizing you need some allies. If this is sucking up then the entire industry is guilty of this in some form or fashion and many are guilty of a lot worse.
I am a SAG member and client of an agent that has been “chosen” for this ridiculous “recognition.” It was as if I was reading about an entirely different rep. One who gave a sh*t and could actually get auditions for his actors. This whole thing is a big joke.
I’m PRETTY sure this is the current sell-out SAG governments way of trying to get to where AFTRA is.
AFTRA, years ago, accepted a $500,000, uh… what’s the word, oh yeah, BRIBE, from the ATA, in exchange for a “loosening” of AFTRA’s “rules” so agents could produce their clients work.
Now, one of the BIG BEEFS the current moderate-merger-happy-with-AFTRA government of SAG has, is that the FORMER administration of SAG, AND EVERY ONE BEFORE IT, never thought it was, um, a good idea, to let your agent produce your show, or movie.
Why?
Because it is what really egg-head intellectuals (always, you know, with the “thinking!”) understand, it’s what is called… a “conflict of interest,” as in “if your AGENT produces YOUR show or movie, then your AGENT has incentive NOT to fight for YOUR best interest as your AGENT’S ONLY CONCERN.
INSTEAD, your agent wants what makes the SHOW or MOVIE more money, and they end up caring FAR less about, say, that RAISE for YOU their CLIENT, because the LESS you make, the MORE THEY MAKE as a producer of the show.
See? I know it’s SUPER-intellectual and hard to follow, but that’s what I hear.
Why fight for YOUR best interests, representing you AGAINST the producers – who want to screw you out of a raise, or residuals, or, you know, ANY of your rights or needs, when it’s SO much more LUCRATIVE to fight for THEIR best interest – as PRODUCER OF YOUR MOVIE OR SHOW.
THAT’s why, MANGERS can produce, but, so far at least, since the inception of SAG in 1933, AGENTS can’t.
But, the current sell-out government of SAG, says “WE MUST HAVE A FRANCHISE AGREEMENT RESTORED WITH THE ATA!!”
Really? O.K. – I agree, that would be ideal. But NOT one where they get to PRODUCE their client’s work.
Cause that would be, um… stupid.
Just like the old joke. “…Wait, my agent stopped by?”
AFTRA gave the ATA $500,000 years ago to “loosen” it’s rules and allow agents to produce their work. SAG considers that a conflict of interest. Your agent, will fight harder for his or her producer’s interest (and far greater money than your 10% of your salary), IF they are allowed to produce your TV and movies and web shows.
Common sense. It’s a huge conflict of interest. But, the merger-happy government of SAG has making a new deal with the ATA that ALLOWS them to produce (just like AFTRA) so, they actually have this garbage on the SAG web-site?
The ATA gave AFTRA $500,000 years ago to “loosen” it’s rules and allow agents to produce their work. SAG considers that a conflict of interest. Your agent, will fight harder for his or her producer’s interest (and far greater money than your 10% of your salary), IF they are allowed to produce your TV and movies and web shows.
Common sense. It’s a huge conflict of interest. But, the merger-happy government of SAG has making a new deal with the ATA that ALLOWS them to produce (just like AFTRA) so, they actually have this garbage on the SAG web-site?