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The DGA's current film and TV pact doesn't expire until June 30, 2023, but the guild is already gearing up for those contract negotiations. Director Jon Avnet has been named chair of the negotiating committee, and directors Karen Gaviola and Todd Holland have been named co-chairs. The DGA National Board unanimously…

UPDATED with WGA West Statement: Hollywood’s unions have issued a statement of support for IATSE in its efforts to reach a new film and TV contract with management’s AMPTP, saying that they “stand in solidarity” with IATSE as it prepares to conduct a strike authorization among its members. The statement was signed by…

Lesli Linka Glatter has been elected president of the DGA at the guild’s biennial convention, held today at DGA national headquarters in Los Angeles. Glatter, who was the guild’s 1st vice president, is only the second woman ever elected president of the DGA. Martha Coolidge held the post from 2002-03. Twenty-two men…

The Motion Picture & Television Fund is expressing its "eternal gratitude" to the DGA and the Directors Guild Foundation for their continuing support, which includes $5 million in donations over the past 20 years. "For 70 years, the DGA and Directors Guild Foundation have made MPTF their primary outside charity," the…

Thomas Schlamme will be stepping down as president of the DGA when the guild convenes its biennial convention on September 18. In a heartfelt farewell address to the DGA's members, he looked back on his four years in office, and forward to new leadership as the industry emerges from the pandemic, which he, in no small…

UPDATED with full 2020 timeline: The DGA on Wednesday unveiled the full timeline for its 2022 ceremony, which earlier this summer set a date for March 12, 2022 as it recalibrated some of its eligibility rules that had to be adjusted after a pandemic-impacted 2021 season. As part of the 2022 timeline, the guild said…

2ND UPDATE with more details and reaction, 9:17 PM:: Mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations on film and TV productions now will be allowed, on a restricted basis, under a new agreement reached Monday between Hollywood’s unions and the major companies. The new protocols, they said in a joint statement, will give producers…

The film and TV industry’s return-to-work protocols have been extended indefinitely until “a new agreement is reached,” labor and management said tonight as the protocols were about to expire. The sides said the move will “give them necessary time to negotiate Covid-19 safety agreement modifications.” The protocols…

Twenty-one DGA members have graduated from the guild’s 2021 TV Mentorship Program, which pairs seasoned episodic television directors with members seeking to develop TV directing careers. Read the names below. The program, which is part of the DGA's diversity and inclusion initiative, pairs early-career directors…

EXCLUSIVE: Covid-19 vaccinations of casts and crews will not be mandatory on film and TV productions under the industry's newly renegotiated return-to-work protocols, which now extend to June 30. "To mandate at this point may be premature,” a source told Deadline. "That subject has been skirted." The source noted…

EXCLUSIVE: Leaders of the Directors Guild of America have sent a direct appeal to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, urging him to withdraw his support for the state's restrictive new voting law, saying it "threatens to undermine the pillar of our democracy – the right to vote." The 18,000-member guild has more than 400 members…

EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood's unions are hurting. Membership dues, their largest source of revenue, have plummeted during the pandemic as a result of massive job losses and dues relief they've provided to their members. Annual financial reports that have just been filed with the Department of Labor show that entertainment…