Strike winds through AFM

November 06, 2007 For New York film executives in Santa Monica, the AFM is a tale of headaches over looming writers and actors strikes, catching up with old Los Angeles friends and wrapping up unfinished business. "There's a lot of pressure from prospective partners here to settle for casting that's less than ideal, and it's caused problems on more than one of our films," said ThinkFilm's Mark Urman. Some New York execs like Miramax's Michael Luisi had their AFM trips delayed a few days to complete strike-related deals back home, while others like Picturehouse's Bob Berney canceled theirs altogether for this and other reasons, having Los Angeles-based colleagues link online to reels and e-mail scripts instead.

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