Collin Lieberg on Striking Creatives, Streaming and the British Invasion

With two creative guilds (Writers Guild of America & SAG-AFTRA)  on strike, can we look forward to a repeat of this summer's Barbenhiemer double-bill phenom next summer? How much longer can striking actors and writers face off with big studios?  This strike affects many thousands more: Directors, script supervisors, hair and make-up, location scouts, gaffers, craft services, dialect coaches are just some of the essential members of a film crew.

Collin Lieberg is Creative Executive at  Cobalt Knight, a genre production company focused on telling feature, series, and comic book stories about the human condition with touches of social commentary. He develops much of the content that you might view. Yet, these days, in solidarity with WGA and SAG-AFTRA, he's working on personal projects until the strikes are resolved.

We talk about the striking creatives, the complications of negotiating with streaming companies and ponder what changes may happen and how that affects the film and TV industry whenever the strikes are settled.  Oh yeah. We also discuss Collin's musical background, and his fascination with the British Invasion of the 1960's.

Collin Lieberg is a screenwriter, creative executive, and world traveler. He has spent many years living abroad and feeling out of place, so he writes about outsiders struggling to fit in. He has a background in academia, management, marketing, and retail that all inform his characters and stories.  For the past two years he has run a monthly #VirtualHappyHour (#VHH) Zoom mixer to connect with friends and make new connections.

 He's working on two TV pilots and is gearing up to write his first novel.

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