Production Sound & Video

Winter 2025

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advise the IATSE and other Locals on this process so that they can emulate our workflow. In the two years since we began doing hybrid meetings, the Stream Team has refined the process tremendously. The group has grown to include Local 695 members Cameron Broadbent, Garret Vander Leek, and Brandon Boldroff on the video side and Patrick Simon and Rylan Sedivy on the audio side. I'd like to make special mention of Local 695 Mixers Steve Weiss and David Cook, who have both stepped in to mix our meetings when Bill Kaplan has not been available. The Stream Team has even gone onto support other Local unions, including IATSE Locals 44, 705, 706, and 728, as well as Teamsters 399. In March of 2023, the Hollywood entertainment unions held a joint rally in Woodley Park in advance of the 2024 negotiations with the AMPTP. With members across the country, the IATSE enlisted the Stream Team to livestream the entire event straight to YouTube. This ended up becoming the largest "hybrid meeting" imaginable for the team, as more than two thousand members of the entertainment guilds turned up in person and more than six thousand joined in online. Following negotiations, the group was again tasked with facilitating communications for the IATSE, conducting a multi-Local membership meeting where leadership from all thirteen Hollywood Locals and the IATSE West Coast Office directly addressed members on the new terms and conditions of their bargained contract. I am immensely proud of this group and the role that I have had the privilege to play within it. It has pioneered solutions to very modern problems and helped expand both accessibility and transparency of the union for its members. But more importantly than that, I can't recall a time I have ever worked with a more generous or more professional crew. Every single person involved is the sort of person you're lucky to know in your life. So, if you need remote streaming solutions for your membership meetings or live events, I wholeheartedly recommend you contact Holley Video and On Tap TV. They are the Stream Team.

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