Hundreds of attendees stopped by Local 600’s booth at this past weekend’s FilmScape Chicago 2023. Local 600 members hosted and participated in several classes, panels (including one on Hulu’s “The Bear”), networking events, and the Camera Olympics. Our thanks to the staff and member volunteers who helped make Local 600’s presence at FilmScape possible. See […]
The National Training Committee facilitated a live stream of the in-person Film Loader Training at our NYC offices on June 11. The training covered the skills and best practices for carrying out job duties such as loading film magazines, navigating a film inventory form, and setting up a dark room. Our thanks to all the […]
Fifty years after Jessie Maple became the first black woman to join Local 600 we see her living legacy. 600 Black Women is a collective of the 97 black women and gender non-conforming members of the IATSE Local 600. Each year the group comes together for a weekend of workshops, trainings, lectures, demonstrations, and networking […]
The International Cinematographers Guild (IATSE, Local 600) and Art Directors Guild (IATSE, Local 800) united for an unprecedented joint Virtual Scouting Workshop in April that underscored their collective commitment to train members on the next-generation technologies reshaping their respective crafts and underlined their shared union values of solidarity and fraternity. The Workshop, a joint effort […]
On her cellphone, inside her car, taking a break from walking the picket line in the midday Georgia heat with her union brothers and sisters (with literal bells on her shoes to make good trouble), IATSE Local 600 Central Region Business Representative Heather Burgett-Svanevik is the personification of union solidarity, grit, and savvy. Her mission […]
On Monday, April 24, Local 600/ICG Magazine’s “Deep Dive Live” craft series traveled to New York City for an in-person panel with the crafts team behind Hulu’s one-of-a-kind streaming series Up Here. Created by the Oscar-winning songwriting team of Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (Frozen, WandaVision, Coco), along with Tony-winning writer Steven Levenson (Dear Evan […]
Photography by Local 600 Still Photographer Claire Folger More than 120 Boston-area participants eager to get an inside view of the production industry, the camera department, and Local 600 gathered at Camera Bootcamp last month, which was organized by IATSE Local 600 and hosted by the Massachusetts Production Coalition. The daylong workshop at Red Sky […]
Members from across the country met up at the 2023 NAB Show in Las Vegas to share their expertise with the over 65,000 attendees of the tech trade show. The photo gallery below will be updated in the days to come to include the two panels and reception hosted by Local 600 and ICG Magazine. […]
A sandwich board. A QR code. A T-shirt and a hat. An online petition. A billboard. These are the simple but impactful tools IATSE brothers and sisters in broadcast newsrooms nationwide are using on the negotiation frontlines in their ongoing battle to secure fair wages, decent working conditions, and basic respect on the job from […]
On March 11, Local 600 Operator Quenell Jones participated in a panel at BMCC, speaking to 110 CUNY students about diversity and careers in film and television production.