The DGA's Independent Directors Committees (IDC) hosted receptions for Sundance Film Festival filmmakers in Los Angeles on December 12, 2006 and New York on December 14, 2006.

Sundance's Programming Director John Cooper and staff offered survival tips to the filmmakers. The audience also received the benefit of the experience of DGA IDC member Penelope Spheeris (The Kid & I).

Cooper and Sundance’s Virginia Pearce also spoke to filmmakers at the New York reception, which featured remarks from IDC member Tamra Davis (Ugly Betty).