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 ...

See photos from 69th Annual DGA Awards Arrivals and Cocktail reception. 69th Annual DGA Awards Nominee Breakfast Photo Gallery See photos from 69th Annual DGA Awards Nominee Breakfast.

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 ...

Born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, Randal Kleiser began making films in his parent’s basement at a young age after seeing Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments. After high school, he went to University ...

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, ...

Due to the length of the interviews, they have been divided into chronological chapters for easier viewing. To view a chapter and see its full transcript, click on the thumbnails below.

Gary Shimokawa spent the first years of his life in Manzanar, the Japanese Internment Camp established in California following the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II. After the war, his family ...

As the DGA celebrates its 80th anniversary this year, we decided to poll our members to see what they consider the 80 greatest directorial achievements in feature films since the Guild’s founding in ...

Although all-news radio operated for decades earlier, the 24-hour news cycle arrived with the advent of cable television channels dedicated to news and brought about a much faster pace of news ...

Walter Hill developed his craft as a screenwriter and director while working as a second assistant director onBullitt, Take the Money and Run, and The Thomas Crown Affair. Hill's first screenplay, ...

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 ...

Michael D. Cohen Studio - Actor, DGA Director-member and acting coach Michael D. Cohen offers consulting and coaching on collaboration techniques for working with actors. NYWIFT - (New York Women in ...