Producers Health Benefits Plan

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Producers Health Benefits Plan

• September 19, 2007

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Plan Structure

• PHBP covers eligible non-union freelance
  production employees.
• Those eligible include all production employees
  not covered by a Union plan. (The job titles
  include Producer, Line Producer, Production
  Supervisor, Assistant Production Supervisor, and
  Production Assistant).

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Plan Structure, contd.

• Employees will receive benefits starting February
  1, 2008, provided that they qualify.
• The Plan provider is UnitedHealthcare, one of the
  largest national healthcare providers.
• Like union plans, contributions will be taken by
  the payroll services companies.

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Plan Structure, contd.

• There is no cost for coverage to employees 100
  percent employer-made contributions.
• If you choose to cover dependents, the full cost
  is covered by the employee.

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Companies In PHBP

• Beach House Films
• Believe Media
• BT Film
• Big Lawn Films
• Big Mama
• Biscuit Filmworks
• Bob Industries
• Bunkey Hill Inc. d/b/a Public Domain

• _at_radical.media
• A Common Thread
• a.k.a films
• Aero Films
• Anonymous Content
• Arf Company
• The Artists Co.
• Backyard Productions

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Companies In PHBP, contd.

• Curious Pictures
• David Naylor Associates (DNA)
• Denali Productions
• Detour Films
• Digital Kitchen
• The Directors Bureau
• Downtown Reel

• Celsius Films
• Chelsea Films
• Christina Productions
• Cohn Company
• Compulsive Pictures
• Cosimo Company
• Crossroads Films
• Cucoloris Films, Inc.

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Companies In PHBP, contd.

• Good Films
• Great Guns USA
• Green Dot Films
• Harvest
• Holmes Defender of the Faith
• HKM Productions
• HSI Productions
• Hungry Man
• Identity Media

• Epoch Films
• Film Realite
• Foreign Films
• Form
• Free Market Films
• Furlined
• Gartner/Tight/ Viral Factory/Outsider
• Giraldi Productions
• GO Film

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Companies In PHBP, contd.

• Independent Media
• The Institute for the Development of Enhanced
  Perceptual Awareness
• Japanese Monster
• The Joneses
• Joy Films
• Kaboom Productions

• Kommitted Films
• Link Entertainment
• Locksmith
• Looking Glass Films
• The Lopes Picture Company
• M-80
• McNamara Films
• Mechaniks

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Companies In PHBP, contd.

• Michael Schrom Company
• Millennium Pictures Production
• Mirror Films
• MJZ
• Motion Blur
• Motion Theory
• Moxie Pictures

• Nola Pictures
• Nonfiction Films
• O Positive
• Paranoid US
• Park Pictures
• Partizan
• Phasmatrope Studios
• Phils Films

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Companies In PHBP, contd.

• Pictures in a Row
• Rascal Films
• Roaring Tiger Films
• Rock Fight
• RSA Films
• Sandwick Films
• Savant Film
• Saville Productions

• Schofield Films
• Sedna Films
• September Productions
• Simpson Films
• Smuggler
• Socket

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Companies In PHBP, contd.

• Space Program
• Superstudio
• Thomas Winter Cook
• Tool of North America
• Trio Films

• Uber Content
• Untitled
• White Label Productions
• Workhorse Media
• Zoo Films

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Employer Responsibilities

• Employers signed to the Plan will contribute on
  behalf of all qualified freelance non-union
  production employees.
• When qualified employees work for a production
  company in the Plan, credit for days worked is
  tracked by the payroll companies.

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Employer Responsibilities, contd.

• Employers signed to the Plan will contribute on
  behalf of all qualified freelance non-union
  production employees.
• When qualified employees work for a production
  company in the Plan, credit for days worked is
  tracked by the payroll companies.
• Administrative Services Only, Inc. is the Plan
  administrator, who will be a liaison between UHC
  and the payroll companies.

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About ASO

• Administrative Services Only, Inc. (ASO) will
  administer the Producers Health Benefit Plan.
• ASO has a great deal of experience administering
  health funds in the entertainment industry. Their
  clients include organizations currently providing
  benefits to some union employees of AICP members.

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About ASO, contd.

• ASO will
• Collect data and contributions from the payroll
  houses and calculate eligibility.
• Communicate with Plan participants regarding
  eligibility and benefits via a dedicated
  toll-free number and Web site.

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About ASO, contd.

• ASO will
• Act as a liaison between the Plan and United
  Healthcare to enroll participants and their
  dependents (when family coverage is elected).
• Bill participants for family coverage and other
  buy-ups.

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Contact Details for ASO

• Producers Health Benefits Plan
• c/o Administrative Service Only, Inc.
• Attn Jenna Roche
• 303 Merrick Road, Suite 300
• Lynbrook, NY 11563-9010
• Phone [phone]-PHBP
• Email PHBP_at_asonet.com
• Fax [phone]

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Authorization Forms

• Authorization Forms allow the Payroll Companies
  to release data to ASO to determine eligibility
  for the Plan.
• Forms must be remitted by September 30, 2007 in
  order to determine eligibility for the Plan,
  which begins February 1, 2008.
• Once 1,000 freelance employees are deemed
  eligible, UHC will be able to design the Plan
  benefits.

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Employee Participation

• Qualifying employees include those Freelancers
  working in a production capacity with the job
  titles of Producer or Line Producer, Production
  Supervisor, Assistant Production Supervisor, and
  Production Assistant.

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Employee Participation

• There is no cost for coverage of a qualifying
  employee, except if they elect to cover their
  dependents (including qualified domestic
  partners), which will be billable directly to the
  employee and entirely at their expense.

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Employee Participation, contd.

• Employees data must be received by Sept. 30 in
  order to determine eligibility for the 1st
  quarter of the 2008 Plan Year.
• Employees must have worked at least 30 days per
  quarter for a full year to qualify.

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Employee Participation, contd.

• All days in excess of 30 in a quarter will be
  banked. These banked days may be used to make
  up for short falls of the 30 days per quarter
  needed for qualification. The bank holds up to 90
  days, and all banked days must be used within 3
  quarters of the quarter that they were earned.

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Employee Participation, contd.

• If a qualified participant does not have enough
  banked to reach 30 days in the quarter, they can
  self-pay the difference, provided they have
  worked at least 20 days in that quarter. This
  option can be used only for one quarter at a
  time. If this occurs in a second continuous
  quarter, the employee may elect COBRA
  continuation coverage.

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Employee Participation, contd.

• Initial eligibility begins with the fourth
  quarter of 2006 (Oct. Dec.) through the third
  quarter of 2007 (July Sept.). For calculation
  purposes, the banked bridging rules apply
  (e.g. if an employee worked 60 days in the second
  quarter of 2007, and only 20 days in the third
  quarter and worked 30 days in Q4 of 2006 and Q1
  2007 he or she would still qualify for the
  Plan).

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Employee Participation, contd.

• All days worked will be credited (provided
  contributions are received by the Plan) except
  for when an employee works for an employer not
  headquartered in AZ, CA, NY, Il, IN, Iowa, PA,
  MA, MD, or VA. In a case where a company is
  headquartered in one of the other 40 states, only
  work for that company which takes place outside
  the state where the company is headquartered will
  be credited.

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Loss of Eligibility

• The freelancer will lose eligibility for
  continued participation if the freelancer fails
  to meet the Standard and Bridge eligibility
  requirements.
• When coverage ends for this reason, the
  freelancer will have an opportunity to continue
  their coverage under the federal law known as
  COBRA. COBRA requires that in certain
  circumstances health plans must offer the ability
  to self-pay for group coverage for a limited
  period of time. There will be more details on
  COBRA in the summary plan description.

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Loss of Eligibility

• COBRA requires that in certain circumstances
  health plans must offer the ability to self-pay
  for group coverage for a limited period of time.
  There will be more details on COBRA in the
  summary plan description.

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Dependent Coverage

• Eligibility for coverage of Freelance dependents
  generally begins on the same date that your
  coverage starts or, if later, when they first
  become the Freelancers dependents.
• Coverage will not begin if the Freelancer does
  not provide necessary proof of dependent status.