ネットフリックス、収入減の俳優スタッフに１１０億円基金　新型肺炎対策

【サンフランシスコＡＦＰ＝時事】動画配信大手ネットフリックスは20日、新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大の影響で収入減に陥っている俳優や制作スタッフを支援するため、1億ドル（約110億円）の基金を立ち上げた。（写真はネットフリックスの社屋）
　同社のテッド・サランドス最高コンテンツ責任者（ＣＣＯ）は、「世界的にほぼすべてのテレビ番組や映画の制作が中止になっており、大勢の制作スタッフや俳優が職を失った」とネット上に投稿。「そうしたスタッフには電気技師、大道具、運転手、ヘアメークアーティストなども含まれ、その多くは時給制でプロジェクトごとに働いている」と述べた。
　米シリコンバレーに拠点を置くネットフリックスは、基金の支援金の分配方法について現在検討している。同社は、制作が中断している作品に携わっている俳優やスタッフの雇用期間を２週間延長することも約束している。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/03/23-13:03）

Streaming television giant Netflix on Friday launched a $100 million fund to help actors and production crews endure the hit to paychecks caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The fund is meant to help offset hardship in the creative community, with most of the money going to financially troubled workers on Netflix productions around the world, according to Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos.
This community has supported Netflix through the good times, and we want to help them through these hard times, especially while governments are still figuring out what economic support they will provide, Sarandos said in an online post.
Netflix is in the process of figuring out details of how money from the fund will be distributed. The Silicon Valley-based company had already committed to keeping casts and crews of suspended productions on the payroll for an additional two weeks.
Almost all television and film production has now ceased globally -- leaving hundreds of thousands of crew and cast without jobs, said Sarandos.
These include electricians, carpenters, drivers, hair and makeup artists and more, many of whom are paid hourly wages and work on a project-to-project basis.
About $15 million of the fund will go to organizations and non-profit groups providing emergency relief to out-of-work film crews and actors in countries where it has a large production base.
What's happening is unprecedented, Sarandos said.
We are only as strong as the people we work with and Netflix is fortunate to be able to help those hardest hit in our industry through this challenging time.
The move comes amid shelter in place orders in California and many other areas, and the closing of many business operations that could result in a surge in joblessness.