The New York Assistant Director Training Program (ADTP) has accepted six new trainees who will work in the production of feature films and television programs and will be graduating six other trainees from its Film/Television and Television Commercials programs.
The ADTP provides opportunities for a limited number of individuals to become Assistant Directors of Motion Pictures. Combined with seminars and special assignments, the focus of this two-year program is on-the-job training. Trainees are placed and become employees of a wide variety of feature films, television series and commercials shot primarily in the New York City vicinity where they will work under the supervision of DGA AD/UPM members until completion of the program. Upon graduating they are qualified to join the Guild as Second Assistant Directors. The new trainees are Michelle Flevotomas, Kelly Mahoney, Colin Markowitz, Antoine Massey, Stephen (Shep) Shepard, and Woodrow Travers.
Congratulations are also in order to trainees Otis Fung, Maura Kelly, Josh Lucido, Jeremy Marks, XiaoHwa Sydney Ng, and John Scott Wilson who will graduate from the Program this summer. The NY ADTP expanded in 2007 to include a separate track for commercial AD training. Over the course of two years, most of the experience provided to these trainees is focused in the area of commercial production. Fung and Wilson have the distinction of being the first two trainees to complete this program.
