TORONTO – The Canadian Media Production Association (CMPA) and the Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) have concluded negotiations on a new three-year DGC-CMPA Standard Agreement, the organizations said Friday.
The agreement in principle was reached on July 6, and will now be sent to the groups’ respective members for ratification. The current agreement expires on December 31st, 2018.
“This agreement creates a foundation for stability, allowing independent producers and DGC members to work together and focus on doing what they do best: creating entertaining content for audiences in Canada and around the world,” said CMPA VP of national industrial relations and senior counsel Warren Ross, in a statement. “We thank the DGC for their hard work and commitment to the negotiation process.”
“The DGC is extremely pleased that the CMPA, with this agreement, is generously acknowledging the continuing imaginative and inventive role all our members bring to the creation of television, motion pictures and digital production for the web. Directors, in particular, are recognized not only for their contribution at the production level but, as well, in the subsequent release and distribution of these superb works of art in all media,” added DGC Ontario executive director Bill Skolnik, who served as the DGC’s lead negotiator along with DGC National’s Catherine Middleton.
