NPR: “Whats Taking So Long to Make Movie Sets Safer for Film Crews”

“In 2006, the famed cinematographer Haskell Wexler (he won an academy award for his work on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) released a documentary titled Who Needs Sleep? It's a look at the back-to-back days and long hours that crew members put in on a film set, what sleep deprivation and exhaustion do to a person, and how those things can lead to people dying on the drive home from work . . . ‘Right now, until something comes up from the state legislature, or better yet on a federal level, we're not able to deal with the long hours,’ Wade says . . .”