Aamptu

07/11/2016

ACTRA Rep. Tina Alford along with Teamster President Al Porter, Teamster Business Agent Lukas Eichel-Fominov & IATSE 669 Prairie Vice President Chooch Paglaro volunteered at Culture & Tourism Minister Miranda's Pancake Breakfast on Sunday. Over 900 served!

02/03/2016

Film commissioner was left vacant last year, but council wants office renewed

01/08/2016

Via IATSE 669: Here is a link to Global Calgary's interview with Luke Azevedo regarding the impact of The Revenant Movie on the Local Economy. In addition to the many 730 Albertans directly employed on this set, Many thanks also to the numerous Members of IATSE 891 Vancouver who worked on this larger project.

Watch Hollywood movie ‘The Revenant’ has ties to Calgary Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

12/09/2015

Leonardo DiCaprio spent last winter in our part of the world shooting The Revenant with director Alejandro G. Inarritu.

11/26/2015

10 years after Brokeback Mountain shot in Alberta, Jake Gyllenhaal, reflects on his work with the late Heath Ledger and the role Brokeback may have had in the last decade in the advancement of gay rights in the USA.

Ten years after Jake Gyllenhaal starred in the landmark Brokeback Mountain — and almost eight years after the death of co-star Heath Ledger — the actor said he had no qualms about taking the role when it came his way. "It’s one of the most beautiful scripts I’ve ever read, and it was Ang Lee, and at…

10/09/2015

Check out this Video Workshop for Women! October 22nd Deadline.

The Herland Video Production Workshop for Women: Submit by October 22, 2015. details here! http://buff.ly/1OoszR5

09/23/2015

Editorial in the Edmonton Journal

Edmonton needs its film commissioner back, plus some studio space to actually make movies.

05/23/2015

More to come on this.

Attention all IATSE Local 212 and DGC - Alberta District Council Represented members who worked on the Project “Redemption” AKA “Forsaken”

We understand that a number of you are receiving emails today from Josh Miller (former AMPIA President) and Kevin DeWalt.

The communication is blatant and unlawful interference with our bargaining rights.

The facts in that letter are highly distorted. Please don't accept them at face value. More information about that will be forthcoming, but for now, we need you to know that we consider Redemption’s actions to be nothing short of blackmail, and to be egregious unfair Labour practices. What they claim are matters of record are totally in dispute.

05/01/2015

The Alberta NDP respond to AAMPTU's questions about our industry - check it out.

Days after the Alberta Election was called, AAMPTU (Alberta Association of Motion Picture Television Unions) sent a short questionnaire to all the political parties in Alberta asking for their position on our industry. Below is the response from the NDP Party.

04/29/2015

A nice Herald story on the progress being made at the Labour Board.

The Alberta Labour Relations Board has ruled that producers behind a troubled western shot in 2013 starring Kiefer Sutherland cannot gain access to an estimated $1.7-million in Alberta Film Grant f...