PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

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

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

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

(i) received a “Producer” or “Produced By” credit on at least two (2) feature-length, scripted motion pictures which were produced in the United States and which were commercially distributed with initial release dates in the fifteen (15) 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.