Over the years there have been a lot of days when we film in bad weather - days so hot your eyeballs feel like they're frying, days so cold your hands might fall off, and rain pouring so hard you could almost drown on set. I’ve posted about these kinds of days before under the title of Survivor’s Club.
But what is the Survivor’s Club and how do you join?
Obviously it’s not a real club, we don’t have meetings or anything, but it’s pretty easy to join – just film with us a few times and odds are you’ll be miserable on the set at least once.
Obviously it’s not a real club, we don’t have meetings or anything, but it’s pretty easy to join – just film with us a few times and odds are you’ll be miserable on the set at least once. 
When it’s a hundred degrees outside, or during a blizzard, or torrential downpour – or film for 18 hours straight, until 3am, or when you have a fever and feel like you’re dying, well basically if you and everyone is miserable you’re a Sine Fine Set Survivor. 
Since many of those scenarios happen with alarming frequency, it doesn’t take long filming with us to join the club. Survive three or more hellish film shoots and you’ll be a card-carrying member of the SFF Survivor’s Club!
Why would you want to join this club? I have no idea. You must be a masocist or something. Although I will admit that filming in general is pretty fun and going through hell on set has a way of bringing everyone closer together – at least you’re not alone in your suffering. You can look back at the filming with pride that you survived.
That brings me to what I want to celebrate today. For the 24th Anniversary of Sine Fine Films, I want to salute those members who have survived many shoots with a Survivor’s Club Award.
There are four different levels in the Survivor’s Club. Each company member receives a survival number that is equal to the number of “Days from Hell/Bad Weather Days” they have participated in.
Three to five days gets you a Survivor Award:
Six to nine days gets you a Super Survivor Award:
Ten to twenty days earns you the How Did You Survive Award:
Anything over twenty days gets you the How Are You Still Alive Award, and probably a hospital bill:
Survivor’s Club Award members will receive (at their next film shoot) a Survivor’s Club Member Card and a first aid kit. The higher your award level, the bigger the kit will be. When you graduate to a new Survivor level, you’ll get a new kit!
Thank you to everyone who has survived these difficult yet sometimes fun days with me!
