PGA: Look for Our New Union Label, ‘p.g.a.’  The Producer's
Guild rolls out a new credit, its latest attempt to effectively
delineate who actually did work on a film  Looking to solve the
age-old problem of crediting producers who actually have worked
on a film — as opposed to friends, family members and various
well-off hangers-on — the Producers Guild of America is
introducing a new label: "p.g.a."  Listed parenthetically
alongside a "produced-by" credit, the mark stipulates producers
who have gone through a guild accreditation process.  "We
recognize that this mark may only be given to those producers
who have been certified through the guild's arbitration process,
and that PGA membership is not a requirement," read a letter
endorsed by over 140 PGA members and sent to the guild's
membership body.  The new guideline would still allow studios to
credit the unaccredited with a "produced by" listing — it just
wouldn't carry the p.g.a. mark.  The criteria used to determine
who gets a (p.g.a) next to their prod