Comments on: Let Them Eat Turkey: Vancouver Film Industry Avoids Compensating Poor Bothered by Filming http://www.bloggernews.net/112749 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:21:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: janefromvancouver http://www.bloggernews.net/112749#comment-171860 janefromvancouver Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:02:41 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/112749#comment-171860 When this article first appeared on the Downtown Eastside Enquirer blog on Dec. 22, a man on the Downtown Eastside read it and was later chatting to friends about it at the Carnegie Center. On the issue of payoffs to institutions edging out compensation to individual poor people who have their lives disrupted by filming, he exclaimed, "That happened to me!" In 1986, he said his life was disrupted by the filming of the television series, "21 Jump Street" on the Downtown Eastside. He was given $65 compensation. But a couple of years ago, he was living in a housing co-op -- the one discussed in the article -- and he was kept up all night by loud noise from a film production. He called the production company to complain and they offered him $150 compensation. He was pleased with that. But a day or so later, he got a knock at his apartment door. It was a representative of the film company, telling him that they could not compensate him as they had already given a lump sum payment to the Co-op. He then spoke to the Co-op film liaison [a former Director of DERA] who confirmed that a deal had been made to allow the film company to film all night and make noise -- but she claimed she had not realized how much noise they would end up making. He recalled the liaison saying that she would like to see changes made so that individuals who are kept up all night, etc. actually get some of the compensation. But that never happened. This guy said he had been looking forward to taking his friends out for dinner with some of the $150 from the film company. He was disappointed. He showed up at the "Let them eat turkey" day hosted by the film industry on Dec. 22/07 but he didn't even get a turkey dinner. He was there early when the line-ups were longest and he got frustrated and left. When this article first appeared on the Downtown Eastside Enquirer blog on Dec. 22, a man on the Downtown Eastside read it and was later chatting to friends about it at the Carnegie Center. On the issue of payoffs to institutions edging out compensation to individual poor people who have their lives disrupted by filming, he exclaimed, “That happened to me!”

In 1986, he said his life was disrupted by the filming of the television series, “21 Jump Street” on the Downtown Eastside. He was given $65 compensation.

But a couple of years ago, he was living in a housing co-op — the one discussed in the article — and he was kept up all night by loud noise from a film production. He called the production company to complain and they offered him $150 compensation. He was pleased with that. But a day or so later, he got a knock at his apartment door. It was a representative of the film company, telling him that they could not compensate him as they had already given a lump sum payment to the Co-op. He then spoke to the Co-op film liaison [a former Director of DERA] who confirmed that a deal had been made to allow the film company to film all night and make noise — but she claimed she had not realized how much noise they would end up making.

He recalled the liaison saying that she would like to see changes made so that individuals who are kept up all night, etc. actually get some of the compensation. But that never happened.

This guy said he had been looking forward to taking his friends out for dinner with some of the $150 from the film company. He was disappointed.

He showed up at the “Let them eat turkey” day hosted by the film industry on Dec. 22/07 but he didn’t even get a turkey dinner. He was there early when the line-ups were longest and he got frustrated and left.

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