THEATRE DIRECTORS SUPPER: 31 July and 10 August 2008 (London) Read More
RUSHES SOHO SHORTS 2008
23 July - 1 August 2008 (London) This years festival offers 10 days full of events, seminars and screenings. Congratulations to Guild members whose films have been nominated and will be screened. Read more
MANIFESTO FOR CHILDREN'S ARTS: 21 July 2008 (London) This ACA conference to launch the Action for Children's Arts marks the beginning of a national campaign and is aimed at anyone with a professional or personal interest in the arts for children aged 0-12. Venue: Unicorn Theatre, London. Date: 21 July 2008, 10.00am - 4.30pm. Tickets from the Unicorn Theatre. For further information, visit http://www.childrensarts.org.uk/ (08/07/2008)
DIRECTORS UK LAUNCHES - 12 June 2008 The Directors & Producers Rights Society (DPRS) has relaunched as Directors UK. It will continue to operate as a collecting society and will now actively campaign for better pay and working conditions for British television and film directors. The DPRS was founded by the Directors Guild in 1987. DGGB Chairman Ivor Benjamin says: “The Guild applauds the creation of Directors UK and supports them wholeheartedly in their efforts to provide a single voice for those British directors working in television and film. Creative and economic rights are the most important bargaining chip that directors possess.” Please click here to read more (12/06/2008)
BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 2008, A SELECTIVE MEMORY - by Guild member Faynia Williams and Richard Crane: "A white horse stands silent and dangerously huge in a crowded basement, occasionally turning its long face to look at us looking at him then turning back again to watch the wall. This is the living backcloth to Fevered Sleep’s An Infinite Line, specially commissioned for the Brighton Festival 2008, and in one image sums up the incongruity and relaxed power of the indefinable arena for all the arts that this extraordinary Festival has become...” Click here to read the complete article. (11/06/2008)
DIRECT ACCESS NEWS The Direct Access Observer Scheme places it's first candidate, Miranda Bowen, on Joe Johnston's 'The Wolfman', starring Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Hugo Weaving and Emily Blunt. Please click here to read more. (29/05/2008)
BLUE PLAQUE FOR SIR DAVID LEAN - 17 APRIL 2008
As part of the David Lean Foundation Centenary Celebrations, on the 17th April 2008 the Directors Guild Trust unveiled its new blue plaque for Sir David Lean at his birthplace, 38 Blenheim Crescent, Croydon, with founder Guild member Sir Alan Parker CBE presiding. This was followed by an evening of celebrations at BAFTA, including a chapagne reception and a private screening of the BFI's newly-restored print of David Lean's 1949 film The Passionate Friends, and a message from Lean's editor Anne V. Coates via BAFTA/LA. Live tributes to David Lean given by James Fox OBE, Saeed Jaffrey OBE, Art Malik, Sarah Miles, Leslie Phillips OBE, Prunella Scales CBE and Rita Tushingham were hosted by producer of the day's events Shevaun Wilder. Later, the cast of the current West End hit stage adaptation by Kneehigh Theatre of Lean's Brief Encounter (1945) performed selected extracts.
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The Directors Guild would like to thank the David Lean Foundation, the British Academy of Film & Television Arts, the British Film Institute, the Grade Organisation, the cast and management of the West End stage production of Brief Encounter - and everyone else who helped make the day's events possible. |
NSDF 2008: DIRECTORS GUILD AWARD WINNER Congratulations to Guy Unsworth, who won the Directors Guild Award for Best New Director with his outstanding play Proof - a New Theatre production - at this year’s National Student Drama Festival (28 March – 3 April 2008) Guy, a student at Nottingham University, will be awarded with a year’s complimentary Associate Membership to the Directors Guild Trust. If you wish to contact Guy, please contact the Guild office (21/04/2008)
ANTHONY MINGHELLA Please click here to read Sir Alan Parker's moving tribute to friend and colleague Anthony Minghella, who died on 18 March 2008 (02/04/2008)
