Unpaid Interns File Suit Against 'Black Swan' Studio
Two men, one a recent college graduate and one aged 42, have filed a lawsuit against Fox Searchlight Pictures, the producer of Black Swan, saying their unpaid internships working on the film were illegal, the NYT reports.
Alex Footman, a 2009 film studies graduate, worked as an unpaid intern from October 2009 to February 2010.
His list of responsibilities should sound familiar to anyone who has taken an internship at a big media company: “preparing coffee for the production office, ensuring that the coffee pot was full, taking and distributing lunch orders for the production staff, taking out the trash and cleaning the office.”
“The only thing I learned on this internship was to be more picky in choosing employment opportunities,” Footman told the New York Times.
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