EMERGING MEMBERSHIP

The membership of the Producers Union consists of the Professional Membership and the Emerging Membership.

To review the rights, privileges and benefits of Emerging Membership, please review Article III of the Producers Union Constitution HERE.

To be eligible for Emerging Membership in the Union, an applicant must have:

(i) received a “Producer” or “Produced By” credit on at least one (1) feature-length, scripted motion picture which was produced in the United States and was commercially distributed with initial release dates within the ten (10) years preceding the date of application OR which premiered at one of the film festivals listed in Appendix B to the Constitution within the last eight (8) years preceding the date of application, AND

(ii) performed 75% of the Producer Responsibilities set forth in Appendix A of the Producers Union Constitution on such motion pictures.

• “Feature-length” is defined as no less than seventy (70) minutes, and “commercially distributed” is defined as being available to rent or purchase by the general public, whether through theatrical, video-on-demand, or streaming service.

• "Produced in the United States" is defined as either (1) the film was physically produced, in whole or in part, in the United States (including pre-production, production and post-production) OR (2) the film received at least 50% of its financing from a United States-based entity.