President Lesli Linka Glatter has made a statement upon learning of the passing of DGA Lifetime Achievement in Television ...

See images from Director Jon M. Chu’s conversation about his directing process moderated by Directors Phil Lord and Chris ...

Before becoming an Assistant Director, Jerry Ziesmer received a Masters Degree in Acting at UCLA and appeared in television series like Sam Benedict and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. In 1967, Ziesmer was ...

This section contains DGA agreements, including the Basic Agreement (BA), Freelance Live and Tape Television Agreement (FLTTA), and Commercial Agreement. It also contains the DGA Creative Rights ...

The Directors Guild of America is a labor organization that represents the creative and economic rights of directors and members of the directorial team working in film, television, commercials, ...

Why does the DGA believe that hiring of more women and minority Directors is critical? At the DGA, we believe storytelling should be as diverse as the world around us, and that a critical mass of ...

Through the collective voice of more than 19,500 members that the DGA represents, the Guild seeks to protect directorial teams' legal and artistic rights, contend for their creative freedom, and ...

Born and raised in Canada by Bulgarian immigrants, Kotcheff studied English Literature at the University of Toronto. His first job after graduating came at the nascent Canadian Broadcast Company as a ...

Before venturing in filmmaking, Robert Benton worked as an editor for Esquire Magazine in the 1960’s. He and fellow editor David Newman collaborated on a screenplay based on Benton’s father’s ...

The DGA for years has called attention to the issue of diversity through the publication of highly publicized data reports rich with statistics reflecting current industry hiring trends. In these ...

In 1948, George Marshall, the President of the Screen Directors Guild (which became the Directors Guild of America, Inc. in 1960) announced to its senior members that the Guild would begin an Awards ...

This section contains information and forms for new and existing DGA signatory companies.The DGA has assembled most of these documents into project-specific packages. You may type on the forms by ...