COVID, Corruption, and the Screen Actor's Guild.

The Clifton Duncan Podcast

Namakula's career was derailed by the entertainment industry's COVID mandates. Now she's fighting back by running to be the NY president of SAG-AFTRA. Victory, however, may require exposing shocking levels of corruption within the union.

Namakula is a multimedia artist who graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She went on to develop a robust career spanning over 20 years in NYC, working throughout the US and Europe as a commercial video editor, creative producer, actor, VO talent, writer and casting director, at a high level. She's supported and spearheaded commercials, industrials, webseries, art films, live events and has worked with top tier ad agencies and production companies, on accounts ranging from multi-million dollar prestige brands to indie projects. She's also a bass player, known as "Nasejje", currently in the indie rock duo, FINE PRINT.

In the last few years, she and 1000s of SAG-AFTRA members have suffered work stoppage due to the union pushing unscientific, medical mandates as a contingency for employment. This, and the discovery of rife corruption within the guild, has been the impetus for her SAG-AFTRA NY Local Presidential candidacy, (August 2023). https://www.namakula.com/artivist

0:00:00 -- Intro.

0:03:37 -- Renaissance Woman and Citizen of the World.

0:18:54 -- Curiosity, Openness, and Being an Outlier.

0:23:51 -- On Pandemic Skepticism.

0:52:12 -- The Onset of the Mandates.

1:02:35 -- Dysfunction & Corruption in SAG-AFTRA?

1:27:58 -- On the Future of Show Business.

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