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The Crew Coop initiative investigates worker cooperatives in every stage of the film industry, and will take a screenplay by the host from funding to production to distribution/exhibition. We’ll clarify the process with other professionals, for ourselves and anyone listening. We’ll be using the Limited Cooperative Association entity type for the individual production, and we’ll be identifying needs and community interest in an LCA federated cooperative that could support other film productions wanting to go worker-coop, creating an educational document and a foundation of resources for other creators who wish to take these same steps.
Throughout our episodes we’ll…
Discuss worker cooperatives and the principles behind them with active worker coops here in Oklahoma and elsewhere;
Discuss creative solutions to logistical and cultural challenges for running productions in this way;
Examine options each crew can identify for themselves regarding sweat equity, capital equity, financing, principal photography time management, and more;
Take a look at historical examples as well as currently operating cooperatives working in the film and media space;
Host interviews with professionals from the production, investing, legal, accounting, granting, distributing, and exhibition spheres;
And continually keep up with a rotating local cast of crew currently working on the ground in Oklahoma who take interest in this work.
We will be prepping for our own worker cooperative production based on the host’s feature script Saavie to kick off the process:
Saavie seeks blood from stones in her relationships - from childhood up through adulthood, the only steadfast participant in her life and everyone else's is an emotionally assistive AI.
It’s our hope that creating a space for this dialogue fosters conversations within our own community to build structures that bolster workers in this changing field for years to come.