Filmmaker's Insurance has generously agreed to give me an affordable 'pickups rate' for re-shoots in March. Panavision, unfortunately, canot promise anything because of the Writer's strike. When I was there, people were working 6 hour shifts and they had just undergone a series of layoffs. It's understandable, the student who isn't paying them a pittance isn't going to rate highly on their list of priorities. In other frustrating news: turns out my parents intend to repaint the entire downstairs between the time of the January shoot and the March shoot, so the amount of material I can shoot - trimmed to 30% of the script after mom fell - is somewhere around 10%. Have to wrap my presents, then spend the day finding creative ways to cheat scenes and get the most of out the spaces I can use. Mom is doing better, though - in less pain and happy to have the family here, though still frustrated with being confined to bed and disheartened by how this turn has hamstrung some of the Holiday rituals. We find out about whether she'll have surgery right after Christmas. This, too, could change shooting plans - she may not even be here for the shoot. Curious if the hospital will let me bring the Panaflex camera and crew into her hospital room...