Realizing a need for a diverse pool of properly trained Assistant Directors in the industry, in 1965 the Directors Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers established the Directors Guild-Producer Training Plan, Assistant Directors Training Program (ADTP). The ADTP’s purpose is to provide equal access to men and women of diverse backgrounds to participate in an industry sponsored program that trains people to become Second Assistant Directors in the motion picture and television industry. The ADTP has branches in both Los Angeles and New York.
Both programs feature on-the-job training, along with seminars and special assignments. Trainees become employees of a wide variety of feature films, TV series and commercials where they will work under the supervision of DGA AD/UPM members until completion of the program.
The ADTP recently announced the names of those newly accepted to the program that will begin in 2015 and the names of this year's graduates who are now qualified to join the Guild as Second Assistant Directors.
Pictured in the photos below are:
West Coast Program
- ADTP Graduates DJ Carter, Katrina Gould, Jack Jenkins, Bryan Landrine, Alana Katzner, Tim Muir, Kim Richards, Alex Russ and Morgan Willis
- ADTP New Trainees Andrea Block, Diane Choi, Alexis Dvorak, Michele Erdman,West Gibson, LaTrisa Jackson, Anja Lill, Jordan Rader, and Katherine Wincor. (Not Pictured New Trainee Zachary Davenport).
New York Program
- ADTP Class of 2015 Film Trainees Mike Dearborn, Nick Weigand-Suminski, and Ryan Tuller and Commercial Trainee Abbey Hansen
- New York ADTP Class of 2016 Film Trainees Alana Bonilla, Wendy Granger, Melina Greene, Jim Lanier, Findlay Zotter, Chris Zou and Commercial Trainees Jake Leibowitz and Matt Smith.
- New York ADTP Class of 2017 Film Trainees Lauren Cheung, Nick DuVarney, Victoria House, Amrita Kundu, Alan Morgan, Abby Pierson and Commercial Trainee Samantha Melville.
photos courtesy ADTP
