Signatories - Reports Compliance Forms
 
Deal Memos/Reports Compliance Forms Guide
For your convenience, the DGA has assembled most of these documents into project-specific packages. To obtain complete information on a specific type of project please click on the appropriate reports compliance package. Links to individual forms are also available.

Commercials

Television:

Theatrical:

Documentary

Other:

Individual Deal Memos and Forms


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Live & Tape

  • Live & Tape Television Signatory Forms Package
    (multi-camera, other than prime-time dramatic programming):
    • Project Information Form: Television
    • Director Deal Memo: Live & Tape
    • Associate Director and Stage Manager Deal Memo: Live & Tape
    • Reports Compliance Packet
      • weekly work list
      • quarterly employment data report
      • quarterly gross earnings report

Multi-Camera Prime-Time Dramatic

  • Multi-Camera Prime-Time Dramatic Television Forms Package
    (including pilots and presentations)
    • Project Information Form: Television
    • Director Deal Memorandum: Television
    • Unit Production Manager, Assistant Director, Associate Director Deal Memo: Week-to-Week or Daily Employment
    • Reports Compliance Packet
      • weekly work list
      • quarterly employment data report
      • quarterly gross earnings report

Television Movie or Mini-Series

  • Television Movie or Mini-Series Forms Package
    • Project Information Form: Television
    • Director Deal Memo: Television
    • Theatrical & Television Film Director Post-Production Information
    • Unit Production Manager, Assistant Director, Associate Director Deal Memo: Week-to-Week or Daily Employment
    • Reports Compliance Packet
      • weekly work list
      • quarterly employment data report
      • quarterly gross earnings report

Single-Camera Television

  • Single-Camera Television Forms Package
    (including pilots and presentations)
    • Project Information Form: Television
    • Director Deal Memo: Television
    • Theatrical & Television Film Director Post-Production Information
      (for projects 90 mins. or longer.)
    • Unit Production Manager, Assistant Director, Associate Director Deal Memo: Week-to-Week or Daily Employment
    • Reports Compliance Packet
      • weekly work list
      • quarterly employment data report
      • quarterly gross earnings report

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Low Budget Theatrical Film

  • Low Budget Theatrical Film Forms Package
    Budgets less than $9.5 Million where company has signed a DGA Low Budget Agreement
    • Project Information Form: Theatrical
    • Low Budget Theatrical: Director Deal Memorandum
    • Unit Production Manager, Assistant Director, Associate Director Deal Memo: Low Budget Deal Theatrical
    • Reports Compliance Packet
      • weekly work list
      • quarterly employment data report
      • quarterly gross earnings report
Please also see the :

Theatrical Film

  • Theatrical Film Forms Package
    • Project Information Form: Theatrical
    • Director Deal Memo: Theatrical
    • Theatrical & Television Film Director Post-Production Information
    • Unit Production Manager, Assistant Director, Associate Director Deal Memo: Week-to-Week or Daily Employment
    • Reports Compliance Packet
      • weekly work list
      • quarterly employment data report
      • quarterly gross earnings report
(not for use if company is signing a Low Budget Agreement and not for use for Experimental projects)

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Please also see the :
  • Documentary -Theatrical Release Forms Package
    Budgets $9.5 million or greater
    :
    • Project Information Form: Theatrical
    • Director Deal Memo: Theatrical
    • Theatrical & Television Film Director Post-Production Information
    • Unit Production Manager, Assistant Director, Associate Director Deal Memo: Week-to-Week or Daily Employment
    • Reports Compliance Packet
      • weekly work list
      • quarterly employment data report
      • quarterly gross earnings report

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Direct-to-Video

  • Direct-to-Video Signatory Forms Package:
    • Project Information Form: Television
    • Director Deal Memo: Television
    • Theatrical & Television Film Director Post-Production Information
    • Unit Production Manager, Assistant Director, Associate Director Deal Memo: Week-to-Week or Daily Employment
    • Reports Compliance Packet
      • weekly work list
      • quarterly employment data report
      • quarterly gross earnings report

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Experimental Films

  • Experimental Films Signatory Forms Package:
    Experimental Film projects provide DGA members with experience or serve as a "resume piece" for a director. DGA members may work on experimental projects with non-members only under the terms and conditions set forth in the DGA Experimental Project Agreement. Experimental projects are essentially equal to or less than 30 minutes in length, not for commercial release, with a budget less than or equal to $50,000 (full conditions are outlined in the Agreement.) Each of the following forms should be completed and returned to the DGA with additional documentation as indicated:
    • Experimental Project Information Form
    • DGA Experimental Project Agreement
    • Exhibit "A" Experimental Project Deal Memorandum

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Internet

    • Project Information Form
    • Internet Sideletter
    • Director's Deal Memo - Internet Projects
    • Below-the-Line Deal Memo - Internet Projects

    • Project Information Form
    • Internet Sideletter
    • Director's Deal Memo - Internet Projects
    • Below-the-Line Deal Memo - Internet Projects


Associate Director/Stage Manager Deal Memo - Live & Tape

FL-Art10-BTL

Commercial Director Notice of Employment

CDNOE

Commercial Project Listing Form

CPLF

Director Deal Memo - Live & Tape

FL-Art14-DR

Director Deal Memo - Television

BA-C2-DirTV

Director Deal Memo - Low Budget Theatrical

LB-DM-DIR

Director Deal Memo Theatrical

BA-C1-DirFilm

Director Post-Production Information - Theatrical & Television Film

BA-C3-Addendum

Experimental Project Agreement

EXP-Agreement

Experimental Project Deal Memo

EXP-DM

Experimental Project Information Form

EXP-pif

Internet Mobile Deal Memo: Director

INT-DIR
Internet Mobile Deal Memo - Unit Production Manager, Assistant Director, Associate Director, Stage Manager INT-BTL

Project Information Form - Theatrical

1-PIF-film

Project Information Form - Television

1-PIF-TV

Project Information Form - Internet/Mobile Device

1-PIF-INT

Unit Production Manager, Assistant Director, Associate Director Deal Memo - Week-to-Week or Daily Employment

BA-C4-BLT weekly
Unit Production Manager, Assistant Director, Associate Director Memo - Low Budget Deal Theatrical LB-DM-BTL

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