Film Workers Seek U.S. Action on Subsidies

U.S. cinematographers and other film industry workers have asked the Bush administration to take action against Canadian, Australian and other government filmmaking subsidies that they say have lured away tens of thousands of jobs.

The Bush administration created the Unfair Trade Practices Task Force as part of an initiative aimed at helping the U.S. manufacturing sector, which has lost nearly 3 million jobs since 2000.

“We are asking that the Unfair Trade Practices Task Force address these [foreign film] subsidies as one of its first priorities,” the Film and Television Action Committee said.