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SHORT TAKES
Directors Talk Shop Over Breakfast
The DGA-sponsored directors breakfasts continued with an April feature directors breakfast and a May movies for television directors breakfast. Both of the events gave directors the chance to discuss a wide range of subjects from working with actors to the problem of runaway production. Many commented that it gave them the chance to “sit down and compare notes on problems that face directors, get advice, suggestions, warnings and sympathy.” The next breakfasts will be held on July 29 for dramatic TV series directors and August 26 for feature directors.
For more information, contact Pamela Kile, DGA Special Projects, at (310) 289-5305.
Celebrating Film Treasures
National Film Preservation Foundation Board Chairman Roger Mayer (left) greets DGA past President Arthur Hiller during the “Treasures of American Film Archives” event at the National Gallery of Art on April 27, 2000. Organized by the NFPF, “Treasures” seeks to celebrate the diversity of filmmaking safeguarded by our nation’s archives. Through “Treasures,” nonprofit and public archives have joined forces to preserve unseen films from their collections. The project will culminate in a new DVD anthology that will be given to state libraries and sold to the public. The “Treasures” event was also attended by DGA President Jack Shea as part of a show of DGA support for film preservation. (Photo: Courtesy of National Film Preservation Foundation)
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