DGA members seeking ways to better prepare for their next episodic directing assignment received valuable information on June 30 when the DGA Director Development Initiative (DDI) hosted the presentation, Your Creative Rights: Remembering the Basics. The online event covered the codified rights as a Director in prep, shoot or post. In a session introduced by DGA Diversity Task Force Co-Chair Michael Goi, DGA Assistant Executive Director Daniel Tenkman went over protections afforded by the DGA’s contract, scenarios in which these rights are challenged, resources available on and off the set, and answered questions about these topics.
During the presentation, Tenkman covered Directors’ creative and economic rights including: the basic tenet of one Director to a film or television episode; the rights in the prep period such as script delivery and table reads; participation during the casting process; prep period minimums; rights during principal photography and post production, including the “Director’s Cut” and the “Directed By” credit; economic rights including start days, guaranteed periods and “intervening days” and more. He also discussed the Director’s rights as augmented by the COVID pandemic and gave information on the DGA Creative Rights Committees and resources available to DGA Members.
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About the Director Development Initiative:
The Director Development Initiative is designed to provide current information on the Director’s craft in order to further the Guild’s mission to increase the diversity of the industry.
