Industry & Labor

Trans rights are human rights. Human rights are at the forefront of workers rights, and therefore central to union ideology.

A union representing school workers in Los Angeles plans to strike for three days next week with support from the district’s teachers union, it said, setting up what could be a shutdown of the nation’s second-largest school system.

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The Animation Guild is seeking to organize nearly 80 production coordinators, production managers and production supervisors, even as Disney looks to disqualify certain job titles from the effort.

Working without a contract since 2017 at rates that have remained stagnant despite inflation and the parent company's continued financial success, photojournalists at Fox 8 in the IATSE union are fighting for better wages.  

In taking on the story of Elvis via the Warner Bros drama of the same name, filmmaker Baz Luhrmann and DP Mandy Walker looked to “perfectly reproduce already existing imagery” of the King of Rock and Roll, for what Walker terms “trainspotting” sequences.

IATSE is calling on Congress to pass a wide range of legislation to protect its members and the rights of working men and women across the country. Known as its Federal Issue Agenda, the wishlist faces an uphill battle with Republicans now controlling the House of Representatives.

Carpenter talks to IndieWire about reuniting with James Cameron and fusing the practical and digital visuals of "The Way of Water."

DP Autumn Durald Arkapaw describes how she and Ryan Coogler approached capturing the emotions and themes of the Disney/Marvel blockbuster

Whether working side by side with cinematic masters, giving often-overlooked women’s stories a place of prominence or conjuring the exotica of Pandora, these directors of photography were motivated to tell compelling tales.

Directors and cinematographers break down some of their most ambitious images.

Every director brings a piece of themselves to their work, but this Oscar season has seen films becoming ever more personal. And it’s up to the cinematographer to work with their director to bring those stories to life.