2024 Urbanworld Filmmakers Reception
An Independent Director's Outreach Event
As part of the Guild's outreach efforts aimed at independent filmmakers, the DGA hosted a virtual reception for Directors with entries in the 2024 Urbanworld Film Festival in New York.

Contact

  • IDC in Los Angeles - Jennifer Peat
    Special Assignments Executive
    (310) 289-5305
    jpeat@dga.org
  • IDC in New York - Mary Hatch
    DGA Assistant Executive Director
    (212) 258-0801
    MHatch@dga.org

committee links

committee chairs

Creative Rights
Information about your creative rights as a Director member of the Guild.
Mira Nair
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Visual History Interview
Mira Nair discusses her 35-plus-year directorial career, highlighting her documentaries (Jama Masjid Street Journal, India Cabaret), independent features (Salaam Bombay!, Mississippi Masala, Monsoon Wedding), and studio features (Vanity Fair, Amelia, Queen of Katwe).
John Sayles
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Acclaimed independent filmmaker John Sayles (Return of the Secaucus Seven, Eight Men Out), shares his unique views as a director/writer/actor hyphenate, working on tight indie budgets, and how he got Alan Parker, Sidney Lumet and Martin Scorsese to sign his DGA application.
Penelope Spheeris
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Visual History Interview
Penelope Spheeris discusses her career as a filmmaker, directing documentaries like The Decline of Western Civilization and studio films such as Wayne's World. Spheeris talks about growing up in her father’s traveling carnival, as well as major influences in her life, including Janis Joplin and punk rock music.
Agnès Varda
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French director Agnès Varda (Cléo from 5 to 7, Vagabond, The Beaches of Agnès) discusses her long career creating documentaries, features, and mixtures of the two that pre-dated and inspired several film movements of European cinema.
Joan Tewkesbury
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Joan Tewkesbury discusses working with Robert Altman as the co-writer of Thieves like Us and the writer of Nashville, then building her own directing career in television, the changes she has witnessed for woman directors, and the importance of the DGA’s support of creative rights.