On April 9, DGA members gathered in the Guild’s Los Angeles Theater for the special event, The Craft of the Director: Jon M. Chu, hosted by the Guild’s Special Projects Committee. The evening was ...

Michael Pressman was born in New York City in 1950. His parents, David and Sasha Pressman, were successful artists on Broadway, so a love of performance was instilled in him from a young age. He ...

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Highlight: Director Kara Kennedy discusses how she stays focused in her role when news stories appear close to home.

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See photos from 69th Annual DGA Awards Arrivals and Cocktail reception. 69th Annual DGA Awards Nominee Breakfast Photo Gallery See photos from 69th Annual DGA Awards Nominee Breakfast.

Ernest Dickerson was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1951. Dickerson initially studied architecture at his alma mater Howard University. However, he still nurtured a love for film and photography ...

Richard Correll was born in Los Angeles, California in 1948 and began his entertainment industry career as a child actor in shows such as The Bob Cummings Show, Leave it to Beaver and Lassie. By the ...

Sometimes there's this thing where there's magic," Susanne Bier says as the opening scene of Apocalypse Now appears, marrying vibrant images of a jungle in turmoil with the Doors' hypnotic track "The ...

In this Season of Giving, Please Take Time to Remember the Directors Guild Foundation The Directors Guild Foundation has a rich history of addressing the financial hardship of DGA members with ...

Winter 2015 A Really Big Show With the 13th-century adventures of Marco Polo, a skilled group of directors gets a chance to make the kind of grand-scale epic rarely seen today.But not for ...

In 1936, a small group of outstanding motion picture filmmakers, hoping to achieve proper recognition and creative freedom for directors, created the Screen Directors’ Guild (the forerunner of today’s ...