Directors Guild of America Elects Lesli Linka Glatter as New President – The Hollywood Reporter
The Administrators Guild of America has named Lesli Linka Glatter as its new president, the craft union introduced Saturday.
Glatter, a veteran TV director of reveals reminiscent of Homeland and The Good Spouse, was voted in on the Guild’s nationwide biennial conference on Saturday. She succeeds The West Wing director and government producer Thomas Schlamme, who introduced he was stepped down after 4 years within the position in a letter printed within the September version of the DGA Month-to-month journal.
“I’m honored to have been chosen by my friends to function President, and am dedicated to persevering with our Guild’s nice legacy of defending the financial and artistic rights of our members—at all times with our eye on the longer term” mentioned Glatter in an announcement.
“And there may be nothing that makes me extra hopeful about our future than wanting round at this formidable, profoundly inventive and extremely various Board representing the way forward for this trade,” continued Glatter, who has been a member of the DGA since 1985 and not too long ago served as a vp on the Guild’s Nationwide Board. “I’m blown away by their generosity of spirit and dedication to serving their fellow members, whilst they juggle such demanding and profitable careers. In these instances of nice technological and cultural change, we stand able to tackle the challenges that lie forward. And simply as we have now all through our 85-year historical past, collectively we are going to prevail.”
With DGA presidents serving two-year phrases, Glatter will lead throughout negotiations for the union’s subsequent Fundamental Settlement, that are set for 2023. With the DGA a serious a part of the coalition of leisure unions (alongside SAG-AFTRA, IATSE, the Teamsters and the Fundamental Crafts) that negotiated the return-to-work security settlement with the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers, Glatter may also play a job in updating security protocols because the COVID-19 pandemic evolves.
In December, the Guild turned the primary Hollywood union to share considerations about WarnerMedia’s 2021 day-and-date launch technique, with sources telling The Hollywood Reporter that the union despatched a vital letter to Warner Bros. CEO Ann Sarnoff asking for a gathering to debate the choice.
In his farewell letter to members, outgoing president Schlamme mentioned the union would want the solidarity of its members to fulfill “the challenges on the horizon on this second of transition solely intensify.” He added, “We want you. Communicate up and be a part of this various household. It’s that collective, evolving character of ours to at all times study, to at all times do higher, and to at all times strive tougher that makes us who we’re — unified, daring and unstoppable.”
Representing round 18,600 members, the DGA bargains on behalf of administrators, assistant administrators, unit manufacturing managers, affiliate administrators, stage managers and manufacturing associates.
