ABOUT GREG

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At the age of 14, Greg Waddle began working in media production at a small cable access channel (CAC-10 /Southeast Missouri University/ Area Athletics.) His career took-off from there bridging into live music, live event, radio production (Manasa Galaxy Productions/ KCGQ/ KTXI) and small community theater.

Fast forward to now, Greg has been an active, working crew member and joined IATSE local 479 in August, 2000. Elected to the IATSE Executive Board as the Atlanta Labor Council delegate in 2007 and the delegate to the GA State AFL-CIO in 2010. Greg also served as a past instructor at the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute 2011. Appointed in 2012 by the late President Bobby Vazquez as the Political Coordinator for IATSE 479 and was the coordinator of the first Workforce Development film program for safety training in Georgia through the Atlanta Regional Commission and the Georgia Entertainment Media Grant in 2011. Greg served 3 terms on the IATSE 479 Executive Board guiding policy, while also shaping and implementing programs until October 2015 when he decided to not run for a fourth term in order to expand film industry outreach and focus on the launch of other economic development programs. Today Greg currently works in the film industry not only as a grip on short and long format content but remains active in areas of economic development, political consulting and local and state politics. 

Greg has served with the Atlanta Jobs With Justice, Safepath and other nonprofit advocacy groups in order to advance the cause of child advocacy, working families, collective bargaining, and the film industry economic development in Georgia. In 2016 Greg co-founded an advocacy group called Film Artisans Craftspeople and Technicians For Innovation, Diversity, and Inclusion (FACT FIDI) to promote diversity in film and media production.