4 North Bay Business Journal
Feeling the pinch
The effects of the
T
Hollywood actors,
writers strike trickle
industry $150 million a week, but
down to North Bay there’s more at stake to industry
stakeholders.
workers, businesses
17 Forbes article represents just
MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2023
Jet Sets Visual
Production
Services owner
Doug Freeman,
seen in his Sonoma
set warehouse Aug.
7, has had three
scheduled jobs
called off due to
the ongoing actors
and writers strike.
CHRISTOPHER CHUNG
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
By SUSAN WOOD
The North Bay Business Journal
one piece of the overall economic
impact and what’s at stake for the
periphery industries as Realtors
and promoters.
participants. Northern California art direc-
he Hollywood actors and writ-
ers strike is estimated to be
Notably, the film sector of Sono-
ma County alone adds up to more
tors, stuntmen and women, studio
developers and equipment rental
costing the film and television
than 1,000 workers equaling $33.5
million in labor income, according
managers from the Sierra Nevada
foothills to the Bay Area are also
to a 2020 report by the county’s
Economic Development Board.
feeling the pinch of the studio
shutdowns.
That stark statistic from a July
The entire sector adds up to $177
million when factoring in such See STRIKE page 5