WELCOME TO THE DIRECTORS GUILD
The Directors Guild Trust and the Directors Guild of Great Britain work together to train, promote and celebrate directors and directing across all media: film, television, theatre, radio, opera, commercials, music videos, corporate film, multimedia and new technology.
The Guild hosts events and training, produces and sponsors publications, has a respected public voice on arts and media policy and is a forum for members to meet and share experience and skills. MORE
The Guild hosts events and training, produces and sponsors publications, has a respected public voice on arts and media policy and is a forum for members to meet and share experience and skills. MORE
We welcome professional directors in all media, students of directing and associated studies, educational establishments teaching directing in theatre, film and television, corporate members who would like access to our facilities and everyone interested in the art and craft of directing. Membership of the Trust, with advanced booking and discounts to Guild events, newsletter and a range of benefits is open to all; professional directors with two or more paid credits are invited to join the register of the Directors Guild of Great Britain. JOIN NOW
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TOOLS OF DIRECTING - THE ACTOR
A WEEKEND MASTERCLASS WITH SIMON PHILLIPS
Friday 13th March 2012, 7pm to 9pm,
Saturday 14th & Sunday15th March, 10am to 5pm
Park Plaza Sherlock Holmes Hotel, Baker Street, London W1
These
ground-breaking techniques give directors their own unique methodology.
Simon brings new insight and clarity to the complex task of directing -
and though his methods are based in film, they also apply to theatre. The Guild is delighted to promote
this inspirational weekend master-class.
Please note that because of the one-to-one nature of Simon’s work, places are very
limited, so please book early to avoid disappointment.
For more information see TRAINING or PRINT A PDF
DIRECTORS GUILD & MSFT MANAGEMENT ACTORS' SHOWCASE & RECEPTION
Tuesday 3rd April 2012, 4.30 - 6.30 pm, Leicester Square Theatre, London W1
Following last year’s engaging event, the Guild are partnering again with actors' agency MSFT Management for an afternoon showcasing their clients; this is a great opportunity for Professional DGGB members only to view and chat to actors and casting agents in a relaxed and comfortable environment at the Leicester Square Theatre. Refreshments will be served.
MSFT management have been operating a successful agency since July 2009, working with the BBC, RedBee Media, Gate Films, Kream, Chipping Norton Theatre and others. To see more information about MSFT clients, please visit the MSFT website.
For more information see EVENTS or PRINT A PDF.
VAMPS VIXENS & FEMINISTS IN THE NORTH
2nd March, 2012, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
The Directors Guild are proud to support Sphinx Theatre Company as they presents the fourth in the 'Vamps, Vixens and Feminists...' series on March 2nd 2012 at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
The event will explore gender inequality in the performing arts with fierce debate, workshops, networking and much much more. Concessions are available to any member of collaborator organisations: Directors Guild, Writers Guild, Equity, Northwest Playwrights, New Writing North, Women in Film and Television.
Booking and more details from Sphinx Theatre.
84th ACADEMY AWARDS - 26th February 2012
Following her success in the 2012 BAFTA Awards, our congratulations once again to Meryl Streep for her Academy Award for Best Actress as an outstanding Margaret Thatcher in THE IRON LADY, directed by Guild member and Peter Brook Lecturer Phyllida Lloyd (the film also won Best Make-Up). Otherwise the lion's share of the Oscars this year - ten out of a possible seventeen awards - were shared between Michel Hazanavicius's excellent cinema homage THE ARTIST (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Score, Best Costumes and nominations in 5 other categories) and Martin Scorsese's amazing 3D debut HUGO (Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Visual Effects and nominations in 6 other categories). Congratulations to all the winners and nominees.
Full details here.
AWARDS AND HONOURS FOR NIC ROEG AND BRYAN FORBES
On 19th January, Guild Patron Nic Roeg received The Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film from his friend and collaborator Donald Sutherland at a London ceremony. The award is the London Film Critics' Circle's highest honour, awarded for his contribution to film-making and lasting testament to innovation. More details HERE.
Legendary director and DGGB Honorary Life Member Bryan Forbes was awarded a BFI Fellowship, the BFI's highest honour, on 24 January. Following a screening of Whistle Down the Wind the BFI showed an exclusive interview with Simon Callow, which was filmed at Bryan's home the week before the Awards ceremony. Due to Bryan's ill health his daughters accepted the Fellowship on his behalf from BFI Chair Greg Dyke. More details and video HERE.
BAFTA AWARDS 2012
Congratulations to Guild member Asif Kapadia for Best Documentary and Best Editing awards for SENNA, to Michel Hazanavicius, winner of the BAFTA Director award for THE ARTIST, which picked up another six awards including Best Film. Congratulations too for Martin Scorsese's Academy Fellowship and to Meryl Streep for her BAFTA Leading Actress award for THE IRON LADY, directed by Guild member and Peter Brook Lecturer Phyllida Lloyd.
The full list of BAFTA 2012 awards.
SWORDMASTER BOB ANDERSON - 1922-2012
Fight director, movie swordsman and Olympic fencer Bob Anderson died 1st January 2012. after 60 years staging some of the most iconic swordfights in modern movie history, including The Princess Bride (1987), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Pirates of the Carribean (2003), Lord of the Rings (2001-2003) and Star Wars (1977). Aged 89, he was still working on Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Hobbit. Read the New York Times obituary.
VACLAV HAVEL - 1936-2011
Vaclav Havel, dissident Czech playwright, jailed by the Communist regime and who went on to become Czech president and a symbol of peace and freedom after leading the bloodless "Velvet Revolution," died at age 75 today, Sunday 18th December. (Reuters) Read the BBC obituary.
DIRECTORS UK OPENS TO WIDER RANGE OF RECORDED MEDIA DIRECTORS
The DGGB and the DGT are pleased to hear that our sister organisation, Directors UK (D-UK) wishes to make its membership more inclusive in order to strengthen its lobbying activities. The DGGB, the only organisation in the UK supporting directors across all media, welcomes and supports organisations that argue for the value and importance of the art of directing.
KEN RUSSELL - 1927-2011
Director Ken Russell died yesterday, 27/11/2011 aged 84. In his lifetime a naval officer, dancer, photographer and filmmaker, his contribution to British film can never be underestimated. A long-time Guild member, we salute him. Read the last interview with Russell (Guardian) and the Daily Telegraph obituary.
MARTIN PERCY PRESENTS - THE INTERACTIVE FILMMAKER'S MANIFESTO
Saturday 26th November (2pm-4pm) - FREE EVENT
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
In this talk Martin Percy looks at examples from around the world, covering all kinds of interactive film and many more. And we’ll take you through a short, simple manifesto for interactive filmmakers, designed to ensure that online film continues to move forward. Martin Percy is a director of interactive film and has won a Webby, 3 Emmy nominations and 2 BAFTA Award nominations, 8 Webby nominations and 11 Webby honorees. A one-day introduction to the methods of Sanford Meisner, as used by actor/director Sidney Pollock, writer/director David Mamet, etc. to draw truthful and emotionally rich performances from their actors, whether on stage or screen.For more details see EVENTS.
The Guild would like to thank Lionhead Studios for their support of this event.
CREATING VIOLENCE PART DEUX - PRACTICAL MAGIC FOR STAGE & SCREEN
Saturday 5th November 2011 (10.30am - 5pm)
Academy of Live & Recorded Arts Theatre
An opportunity absolutely not to be missed, this second one-day practical workshop follows up our immensely popular (and sellout) introductory March 2010 Staging Violence. The day is hosted by fight director and British Academy of Fencing member Prof. Andy Wilkinson and Guild Chair Ivor Benjamin, film and television director Charles Marriott, with fighting guests Roger Bartlett, Ronin Traynor and veteran fight arranger Derek Ware. A packed schedule will comprise: “film & edit” camera session,a practical introduction to the basics of staged combat, creating short action sequences for stage and screen,practical tips and tricks for stage and screen directors, discussion of film edited during the day and Q&A. For directors and students at all levels wanting to know more about the challenges of staging violence for film, television and theatre.
For more information see TRAINING or VIEW A PDF.
TOOLS OF DIRECTING - THE ACTOR
A WEEKEND MASTERCLASS WITH SIMON PHILLIPS
Friday 13th March 2012, 7pm to 9pm,
Saturday 14th & Sunday15th March, 10am to 5pm
Park Plaza Sherlock Holmes Hotel, Baker Street, London W1
Have you ever felt that the existing methods were for primarily for the actors, and there was some deep, dark secret that experts weren't telling about exactly how to powerfully direct? We are now repeating Simon Phillips’ sell-out weekend masterclass exploring the Tools of Directing - The Actor. |  |
For more information see TRAINING or PRINT A PDF
DIRECTORS GUILD & MSFT MANAGEMENT ACTORS' SHOWCASE & RECEPTION
Tuesday 3rd April 2012, 4.30 - 6.30 pm, Leicester Square Theatre, London W1
Following last year’s engaging event, the Guild are partnering again with actors' agency MSFT Management for an afternoon showcasing their clients; this is a great opportunity for Professional DGGB members only to view and chat to actors and casting agents in a relaxed and comfortable environment at the Leicester Square Theatre. Refreshments will be served.
MSFT management have been operating a successful agency since July 2009, working with the BBC, RedBee Media, Gate Films, Kream, Chipping Norton Theatre and others. To see more information about MSFT clients, please visit the MSFT website.
For more information see EVENTS or PRINT A PDF.
VAMPS VIXENS & FEMINISTS IN THE NORTH
2nd March, 2012, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
The Directors Guild are proud to support Sphinx Theatre Company as they presents the fourth in the 'Vamps, Vixens and Feminists...' series on March 2nd 2012 at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
The event will explore gender inequality in the performing arts with fierce debate, workshops, networking and much much more. Concessions are available to any member of collaborator organisations: Directors Guild, Writers Guild, Equity, Northwest Playwrights, New Writing North, Women in Film and Television.
Booking and more details from Sphinx Theatre.
84th ACADEMY AWARDS - 26th February 2012
Following her success in the 2012 BAFTA Awards, our congratulations once again to Meryl Streep for her Academy Award for Best Actress as an outstanding Margaret Thatcher in THE IRON LADY, directed by Guild member and Peter Brook Lecturer Phyllida Lloyd (the film also won Best Make-Up). Otherwise the lion's share of the Oscars this year - ten out of a possible seventeen awards - were shared between Michel Hazanavicius's excellent cinema homage THE ARTIST (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Score, Best Costumes and nominations in 5 other categories) and Martin Scorsese's amazing 3D debut HUGO (Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Visual Effects and nominations in 6 other categories). Congratulations to all the winners and nominees.
Full details here.
AWARDS AND HONOURS FOR NIC ROEG AND BRYAN FORBES
On 19th January, Guild Patron Nic Roeg received The Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film from his friend and collaborator Donald Sutherland at a London ceremony. The award is the London Film Critics' Circle's highest honour, awarded for his contribution to film-making and lasting testament to innovation. More details HERE.
Legendary director and DGGB Honorary Life Member Bryan Forbes was awarded a BFI Fellowship, the BFI's highest honour, on 24 January. Following a screening of Whistle Down the Wind the BFI showed an exclusive interview with Simon Callow, which was filmed at Bryan's home the week before the Awards ceremony. Due to Bryan's ill health his daughters accepted the Fellowship on his behalf from BFI Chair Greg Dyke. More details and video HERE.
BAFTA AWARDS 2012
Congratulations to Guild member Asif Kapadia for Best Documentary and Best Editing awards for SENNA, to Michel Hazanavicius, winner of the BAFTA Director award for THE ARTIST, which picked up another six awards including Best Film. Congratulations too for Martin Scorsese's Academy Fellowship and to Meryl Streep for her BAFTA Leading Actress award for THE IRON LADY, directed by Guild member and Peter Brook Lecturer Phyllida Lloyd.
The full list of BAFTA 2012 awards.
SWORDMASTER BOB ANDERSON - 1922-2012
Fight director, movie swordsman and Olympic fencer Bob Anderson died 1st January 2012. after 60 years staging some of the most iconic swordfights in modern movie history, including The Princess Bride (1987), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Pirates of the Carribean (2003), Lord of the Rings (2001-2003) and Star Wars (1977). Aged 89, he was still working on Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Hobbit. Read the New York Times obituary.
VACLAV HAVEL - 1936-2011
Vaclav Havel, dissident Czech playwright, jailed by the Communist regime and who went on to become Czech president and a symbol of peace and freedom after leading the bloodless "Velvet Revolution," died at age 75 today, Sunday 18th December. (Reuters) Read the BBC obituary.
DIRECTORS UK OPENS TO WIDER RANGE OF RECORDED MEDIA DIRECTORS
The DGGB and the DGT are pleased to hear that our sister organisation, Directors UK (D-UK) wishes to make its membership more inclusive in order to strengthen its lobbying activities. The DGGB, the only organisation in the UK supporting directors across all media, welcomes and supports organisations that argue for the value and importance of the art of directing.
KEN RUSSELL - 1927-2011
Director Ken Russell died yesterday, 27/11/2011 aged 84. In his lifetime a naval officer, dancer, photographer and filmmaker, his contribution to British film can never be underestimated. A long-time Guild member, we salute him. Read the last interview with Russell (Guardian) and the Daily Telegraph obituary.
MARTIN PERCY PRESENTS - THE INTERACTIVE FILMMAKER'S MANIFESTO
Saturday 26th November (2pm-4pm) - FREE EVENT
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
In this talk Martin Percy looks at examples from around the world, covering all kinds of interactive film and many more. And we’ll take you through a short, simple manifesto for interactive filmmakers, designed to ensure that online film continues to move forward. Martin Percy is a director of interactive film and has won a Webby, 3 Emmy nominations and 2 BAFTA Award nominations, 8 Webby nominations and 11 Webby honorees. A one-day introduction to the methods of Sanford Meisner, as used by actor/director Sidney Pollock, writer/director David Mamet, etc. to draw truthful and emotionally rich performances from their actors, whether on stage or screen.For more details see EVENTS.
The Guild would like to thank Lionhead Studios for their support of this event.
CREATING VIOLENCE PART DEUX - PRACTICAL MAGIC FOR STAGE & SCREEN
Saturday 5th November 2011 (10.30am - 5pm)
Academy of Live & Recorded Arts Theatre
An opportunity absolutely not to be missed, this second one-day practical workshop follows up our immensely popular (and sellout) introductory March 2010 Staging Violence. The day is hosted by fight director and British Academy of Fencing member Prof. Andy Wilkinson and Guild Chair Ivor Benjamin, film and television director Charles Marriott, with fighting guests Roger Bartlett, Ronin Traynor and veteran fight arranger Derek Ware. A packed schedule will comprise: “film & edit” camera session,a practical introduction to the basics of staged combat, creating short action sequences for stage and screen,practical tips and tricks for stage and screen directors, discussion of film edited during the day and Q&A. For directors and students at all levels wanting to know more about the challenges of staging violence for film, television and theatre.
For more information see TRAINING or VIEW A PDF.
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