SAG-AFTRA NY Locals Join Mayor’s Production Revitalization Team

SAG-AFTRA leadership will be in the room where it happens — New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced in July one of the components of his “Rebuild, Renew, Reinvent” economic recovery plan that intends to drive growth in the film and television sectors. 

The first-ever Film and Television Production Industry Council will be led by deputy commissioner in the Film Office of the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME), Kwame Amoaku, who was the former Director of the Chicago Film Office, and co-chaired by Directors Guild of America (DGA) Eastern Executive Director Neil Dudich and Executive Producer and New York Producers COVID Response Alliance Co-Chair April Taylor. 

SAG-AFTRA Vice President, New York and New York Local President Ezra Knight and New York Local Executive Director Rebecca Damon were selected to sit on the Film and Television Council, along with 19 others, including executives from film and television studios, trade organizations, and production hubs. 

The SAG-AFTRA reps will be tasked with advising the city’s production policies and programs that hope to encourage film and TV production in the city and promote New York City as a premier location for production, among other Council duties, and the foresight of the Adams’ administration to include union leaders and executives reflects their ongoing commitment to support union productions and their performers as New York’s production industry continues to recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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