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Producing right now is hard enough/Joaquin Phoenix
I don't have a particular dog in this fight, except to say that independent producing is hard-to-impossible enough with the squeeze coming from all sides (from studios to lack of union representation.) I was in a PGA meeting today with a very seasoned producer saying he has to keep close to a hundred projects in the air to…

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