MEAA calls for Hobbit boycott
The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance and the New Zealand Actors’ Equity have started a campaign asking its members not to accept work on the upcoming adaptation of The Hobbit.
Equivalent organisations in the US, UK, Canada and South Africa have also joined the protest.
The following is the ‘member alert’ that was sent by the Screen Actors Guild in the US, asking its members not to work on The Hobbit.
The makers of feature film The Hobbit – to be shot in New Zealand next year – have refused to engage performers on union-negotiated agreements.
Members of Canadian Actors Equity, US Actors Equity, the Screen Actors Guild, UK Actors Equity, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (Australia) and the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists are advised not to accept work on this non-union production.
If you are contacted to be engaged on The Hobbit please notify your union immediately.For more information about this non-union production see here:
