Monday, November 24, 2008

Taking a Cue from the Universe. . .


. . .We're expanding!

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Welcome Paa-Ko Ridge Golf Course to the New Mexico Film Locations Directory on crewnewmexico.com


We'd like to welcome Paa-Ko Ridge golf course to the New Mexico Film Locations Directory on crewnewmexico.com!

Paako Ridge is not only one of the top golf courses in the US, it is also a prime location for New Mexico filmmakers. This picturesque locale offers a number of unique location types, including lush golf greens surrounded by deeply forested mountainsides with significant eastern and western mountain views. The golf course features green rolling hills, water holes, sand traps, driving range.

Paako Ridge is just a short 35 minute drive from Albuquerque, on the east side of the Sandia Mountains, and is only 5 miles from the nearest town with services. There is municipal power at this site along with potable water. There is a large parking lot, as well as proximal off-site parking areas that can accommodate production and crew vehicles of all sizes.

Paako Ridge has a luxury residential component, and some homes are visible from certain parts of the golf course.

The Paako Ridge Golf Course is located at:
1 Clubhouse Drive
Sandia Park, NM, 87047

You can contact this location by calling 505-930-0443 or by visiting http://www.crewnewmexico.com/paakoridge. You can also email info@crewnewmexico.net for more information.

The Latest w/ SAG


After four months of negotiations with Hollywood studios in regards to obtaining the rights to residuals for new media, such as the internet, SAG is still at the table but calling for a strike.

According to Doug Allen, SAG national executive director and chief negotiator, if actors don't have rights to income from new media, then actors will miss out on new income opportunities and residuals. Residuals are payments to actors that are made every time a production airs, such as TV reruns.

SAG represents more than 120,000 actors in movies, television and other media. These members rely on their residual payments for more than half their incomes, and the leaders of the SAG fear that these actors are missing out on future income.

SAG wants union coverage for all Internet-only productions regardless of budget and residual payments for Internet productions replayed online, as well as continued actor protections during work stoppages. Movie and prime-time TV actors are currently working under contracts that expired at the end of June 2008. SAG is the also the only major Hollywood working without a labor deal this year.

The producers' group has already reached its sixth labor deal with local branches of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts, accounting for 35,000 workers. The producers' alliance has condemned SAG's decision to strike, especially while the country is facing such hard economic times.

SAG's national board has already authorized its negotiating committee to call for a strike authorization vote if mediation failed. The vote would take more than a month and require more than 75 percent approval to pass.