March 6, 2023
In 2017, the DGA held its inaugural Orientation Course on Professional Standards for Episodic Television Directors. The orientation was codified in the 2017 Basic Agreement to support first-time episodic television directors by providing training for them on the role, responsibilities and obligations of directors. Since the launch of the program in July of 2017, the Guild has conducted these courses at Guild Headquarters in Los Angeles and New York.
The instructors have included the following Directors:
In each course, the participants also learned about the standards of the craft, their creative rights as directors, the Guild resources that are available to them, and are instructed about the best practices of some of the top directors working today in order to provide them with an outline of a comprehensive set of requirements needed to succeed.