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There Are Solutions To Some Problems

You read about them first here. And second here too, but it is great to see BondIt getting wider industry coverage.  I was happy to give them a quote.

“I believe they are taking a community-minded entrepreneurial approach to improving our industry,” said veteran independent producer Ted Hope, whose seventy-plus credits range over the last three decades. “The BondIts recognized that filmmakers both need/want to work with unions (and thus pay deposits) and can’t tie up their capital as the unions require. Not only did they come up with a solution but in the process they have the potential of improving things for multiple stakeholders and bringing a greater transparency to the process.”

Read the whole article here:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/new-service-bondit-launches-pay-695580

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