Monday, October 25, 2021
Rust Shooting: At Vigil for Halyna Hutchins, There’s Grief and Anger
IndieWire: At a candlelight vigil held outside the Burbank offices of Cinematographers Local 80 on Sunday evening, Halyna Hutchins was remembered by her friends and colleagues as a loving and passionate mother, wife, friend, and filmmaker whose life was cut short when she was shot and killed on the New Mexico set of “Rust” last week when the film’s star and producer Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun.
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Halyna Hutchins' story and the Rust shooting has hit incredibly close to home for me. My father is in the film industry, and works as a cinematographer, the same position as Halyna Hutchins. It is a job that I often view as relatively safe, with the only main worries being around the deterioration of mental health as a result of a long and stressful schedule. I thought this was due to a standard of safety protocols that were established and heavily enforced in the workplace. And usually, at least apparently, they are being respected. For Rust, they could not afford someone to properly supervise this, which resulted in the death of Halyna. Her death could have been avoided if they either 1) hired someone with proper knowledge on gun safety or 2) recognized the possibility of harm that came with not hiring someone with proper knowledge and cut/changed the weapons. But instead, they did neither, saving them money but losing a life. This risk is not worth the money. Workers are not replaceable, they are real humans with real lives and families that get affected by these things. I strongly hope all producers see this incident, and reevaluate their priorities in terms of money.
“We need to start working normal days so we can have normal family lives.” THANK YOU. CMU please start this now, please stop overworking students. Please stop preparing students for an unsafe industry! Please stop showing students that overworking themselves is valued or a good thing, it is not. When people are rushed or budgets are tight PEOPLE MAKE BIG MISTAKES!!! I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that there was live ammunition on this set while they were filming with a prop gun. Were there any safety measures put in place while filming? I haven’t heard of a single person being in charge of these “prop” guns that were in fact capable of firing live rounds. This was the first article that I found out she was a mother. It is a tragedy that such a talented director was lost but the fact that she went into this industry and tried to provide for herself and family through her job (that got her killed) is just, for lack of a better term, sad.
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