Lesli Linka Glatter Elected President of Directors Guild of America

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The Directors Guild of America (DGA) has named the three individuals to its negotiating committee who will lead its contract talks in 2023.Directors Guild president Lesli Linka Glatter announced Friday that director Jon Avnet has been appointed chair of the DGA Feature Film and Television Negotiations Committee, and directors Todd Holland and Karen Gaviola have been appointed co-chairs.

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The Art Directors Guild, IATSE Local 800, is “wholeheartedly” urging its members to authorize a strike against film and TV production companies all across the country. The leadership of all three IATSE locals with national jurisdiction – the Art Directors Guild, the International Cinematographers Guild and the Editors Guild – have now gone on record recommending that their members authorize a strike in voting that begins on Friday.

Leaders of the Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, are urging their members to vote “overwhelmingly” to authorize a strike against the film and TV industry. The guild’s board, meeting on Tuesday, voted unanimously to recommend that members back the strike authorization after negotiations with the AMPTP for a new Basic Agreement broke down. The guild is one of three IATSE locals with national jurisdiction, and with more than 8,600 members, is its second largest local.

Claudia Eller Co-Editor-in-ChiefIt is such welcoming news that television veteran Lesli Linka Glatter has been elected president of the Directors Guild of America. For years, Glatter has mentored and advocated for women directors and has been a force within the union fighting for members’ rights.Presumably her position will give her an even bigger platform to continue pushing for more parity in Hollywood’s male-dominated director ranks.

Meredith Stiehm, running unopposed, has been elected president of the WGA West, becoming only the third woman to ever hold the guild’s top elected office.

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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 have served as president, going back to the guild’s founding in 1936.

Lesli Linka Glatter, a veteran TV director of shows such as “Homeland” and “Mad Men,” was elected president of the Directors Guild of America on Saturday night.Glatter will succeed Thomas Schlamme, the “West Wing” veteran who stepped down after two terms.

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.

Awkwardly bridging the gap between “My Fair Lady” retelling and an episode of “Southern Charm,” Justin and Christian Long’s directorial debut, “Lady of the Manor,” is both a southern-friend romantic comedy and “Casper”-esque tale of ghostly friendship.

Michael Winship, running unopposed, has been elected president of the WGA East, the guild said Tuesday, but his running mates for seats on the guild’s council took a drubbing. Seven candidates on the opposition’s Solidarity slate were elected to the council, compared to only four on Winship’s Inclusion & Experience slate.

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