Brendan joins the winning line
HOLLYWOOD screenwriters settled their strike after 100 days when the Writers Guild of America (WGA) reached a deal that grants writers “residual rights” to income from the sale of DVDs and online syndication of their work.
Shortly before the settlement the picket lines were visited by the NUJ’s own screenwriter Brendan Foley who has written and produced two movies himself. He said later: “They seem to have quite a good settlement.”
Brendan Foley, a former member of the NUJ national executive, teaches screenwriting and feature writing on the union’s professional training programme.
With Brendan Foley (left) were three members of the WGA — Doug Molitor, Shelly Goldstein and Carl Gottlieb, the writer of Jaws. His placard records the support of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain
Picture: Glenn Camhi