‘Sing Sing’ Filmmakers’ Equal Pay Plan For Hollywood

What if there is a way to reduce the costs of filmmaking, while enabling each member of your team and crew with the promise of equality, transparency, acquired benefit and possible payment on the back interface? Oscar nominated singing The two films, Greg Keunder and Keint Bentley, will do so, with a plan that can save the independent film industry and even disrupt the entire industry. They have invented a spirit – the equal wage initiative that also drives investors, and to do and create a way that makes everyone in a form of partnership – and they want to share it with industry.

Kwedar and Bentley started making features with TranspecosDirected by Keider, then KnightIt is directed by Bentley, then directed to Kwaidar singing Leaded by Coleman Domingo. After that, they have Dreams trainingStarring Joel Edgerton and Veliciti Jones.

Bentley says that the idea of ​​ethics came “starting with everyone, they will get the same prices.” “Then I became more exciting, thinking about the creative stock aspect of independent films and cleaning that is in the same way that the investor side is very clean, and its unification to where it can be as transparent as possible. Everyone knows where everyone stands.” This is called “the moment of a lamp. You tell the staff and the crew in reality that there will be money, even if there is no profit. There will be something.

“We also knew the way we made Transpecos “It did not really resulted in a success for our investors or ourselves. We haven't seen any profit from it. Our investors were not completely. So, we were like,” we have to know how to reduce the risks, but we do not want to make a cheaper movie. “We really wanted to pay the quality further but we make it for less money. So it was, well, we now need a new model.”

Bentley puts it as a triple plan. The first is a fair salary structure. “Everyone is salaries at the same rate from the writer, director and star along the way through the Palestinian Authority, then along the way by mail as well.” Everyone is salaries according to the time they place.

The second principle is the unification of stocks. “The only difference is the duration of which you succeed in the movie. So, everyone who is qualified, and works on the minimum amount, is a party in the rear stocks of the film on the creative side.”

The third point is, as Bentley says, “finding a way to divide money from total instead of network From the movie with actors and crew.

Kwedar explains how this works Knight For example. “The first money that comes – which usually recover investors in addition to 120 %, then divide the profit 50/50. This is the standard waterfall. We have changed the waterfall for the first money, we will divide 60 % into investors, and 40 % of asylum and staff, until investors got 120 %. You have something to share with the staff and crew of this race.” Kwedar adds, that the preference for investors She: “Well, you did not have to put a lot of money as you were usually to pay the price of this movie, and this is what we have to do to reward the artists concerned.”

Bentley admits that this does not work for everyone. “There were some crew who were like,” hear, I must make a certain amount for my family and I cannot deal with this. “Some investors retreated, but” I think this is evidence of Black Bear on singingBut we had no long time singing Because we have proven [the concept]”He was the representative of one of the actors very conservative Knight He became a success, “They got nice tests. This deputy was like, my God, oh, from a beautiful movie.”

Kwedar says, “Lolmann Ali singing“It was an opportunity to participate in building something from A to Z, or a prestige role that could have a prize.” The actor was already nominated.

Kwedar says ethics hope to “wander in the broader industry.” They also raise money. “Films are perfect on singing The scale that will be traditional $ 5 million, you can achieve less than $ 2 million on a model like this, or first features such as Knight Usually you get $ 1.5 million, you can make less than half a million due to the equivalence model. We want to finance these films completely. “