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For The Beguiled, Director Sofia Coppola and Production Designer Anne Ross talk color schemes, mood boards and the value of actual locations.

DGA headquarters joins other venues in playing host to a celebration of Asian Pacific cinema during the 33rd Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.

From February 9-20, the 25th Annual Pan African Film & Arts Festival returned to Los Angeles with films that showcased the diversity and complexity of people of African descent.

The DGA recently hosted receptions for Directors with films in the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

See photos and video from the discussion about Gillo Pontecorvo’s seminal film featuring Directors Ted Braun and Mick Jackson, Author Sohail Daulatzai, and Director-Cinematographer Marco Pontecorvo, moderated by Special Projects Committee Chair Jeremy Kagan.

As part of the Guild's outreach efforts aimed at independent filmmakers, the DGA hosted a luncheon for Directors with entries in the 2016 Urbanworld Film Festival in New York.

As part of our continuing outreach efforts aimed at independent filmmakers, the DGA was a sponsor of Outfest, the 34th Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

For the 22nd consecutive year, the DGA was a sponsor of Film Independent's Los Angeles Film Festival.

The DGA recently hosted receptions on both coasts for directors with films at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

As part of our continuing outreach efforts aimed at independent filmmakers, the DGA was a sponsor of Outfest, the 33rd Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

The director’s unlikely journey from a Texas border town to NYU film school, to working as an assistant to Nora Ephron and Martin Scorsese, pays off with Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.

After the success of her first film, Pariah, Dee Rees’ career is on track with a biopic about the legendary Bessie Smith—warts and all.