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32 SAG-AFTRA | Summer 2025 | sagaftra.org Scene Around POWER PLAYERS AT SAG-AFTRA PLAZA From left, California Assemblymember Tina McKinnor, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, state Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas and SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director & Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland at the SAG-AFTRA-hosted Here's Looking at You, L.A. event on May 8. Held at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Meryl Streep Center for the Performing Arts at SAG-AFTRA Plaza, the event brought together public figures from across the legislative, production and union sectors to share ideas on increasing film and television production in Los Angeles. Champions of the Challenge T he 2025 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge winners — Danny Kurtzman (Best Writer), Dashiell Meier (Best Actor), Lee Cleaveland (Best Film), Shane Hillier (Best Director) and Anna Pakman (Best Awareness Campaign) — commemorate the night with show host and Film Challenge founder Nic Novicki, SAG-AFTRA National Performers with Disabilities Committee member, on May 8 in Los Angeles. REEL REPRESENTATION AT L.A. ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FEST Members Michelle Lee and Eric Nam, and SAG-AFTRA National APAM Committee member Myhraliza Aala attend a screening of Transplant at the 2025 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival on May 2. Transplant and a second film screening, Surrender, were both sponsored by the national committee during the festival, which took place May 1–7. EASTERSEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CARLOS GONZALEZ/DEADLINE. MYHRALIZA AALA