The 2025 Slamdance Film Festival — which focuses on emerging artists — took place in-person from February 20-26 in Los Angeles. The DGA is a longtime sponsor of the Festival.
On the first day of the festival, the DGA hosted an orientation event for the filmmakers at Guild headquarters in Los Angeles. During the orientation, DGA Special Assignments Executive Jennifer Peat spoke with the filmmakers and discussed the economic and creative protections and community that DGA membership can provide and relayed that many DGA Directors screened their early work at Slamdance.
The attendees also heard from Slamdance President & Co-Founder Peter Baxter, Festival Director/Co-Founder Slamdance Unstoppable Taylor Miller, Board Member Paul Rachman and Co-Founder at Large Dan Mirvish
The Filmmakers then introduced themselves and spoke about their projects. The DGA is a longtime sponsor of the Festival and many filmmakers who are now noted DGA Director-members screened their early work at Slamdance including Christopher Nolan, Lee Isaac Chung and Anthony and Joe Russo.
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