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D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 9 I 7 1 Michael Apted — Updated Veteran feature and documentary film director and DGA past-president Michael Apted discusses his 45-plus year directorial career, highlighting his work on the Seven Up! documentary series, the features Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) and Nell (1994) and reflecting on his presidency and Guild leadership over the years. Apted on His Presidency "I wanted to keep working as a director. I didn't want to stop work even if I was President of the Guild because I just think (by) being on the job, you know what's going on... I knew I had to make decisions, but I knew that I should listen carefully to all the proposals being made, all the changes, and there were a lot of changes going on during my presidency. That I should listen to them, understand them, talk to you (National Executive Director, Jay D. Roth) about them, and make sure they got passed on in the right manner. The flow of running the Guild was that the professional staff did the legwork, came up with ideas, presented us with ideas because that's what they were doing 24/7. And it was up to us to make sure that they were well presented to the membership, and the membership understood what was going on." Michael Apted interviewed by Jeremy Kagan & Jay D. Roth To visit the DGA Visual History Collection, click the quick link on the homepage of www.dga.org Recent Visual History Additions FIELD REPS Tara Borth 646-701-4195 TBorth@dga.org Bart Daudelin 212-258-0809 BartD@dga.org Jon Drew 310-279-7693 JDrew@dga.org Gabe Kahsay 310-562-8455 GabeK@dga.org Jill King 323-637-5428 JKing@dga.org Michelle Kuchinsky 347-803-0525 michellek@dga.org Joanne Lo 213-631-1832 JLo@dga.org Joseph Longo 212-258-0813 JLongo@dga.org Jennifer Peat 212-258-0808 JPeat@dga.org Ivy Quicho 323-356-1430 IQuicho@dga.org Faith Santilla 213-453-6660 FSantilla@dga.org DGA CONTACT INFORMATION DGA WORK REPORT NUMBERS If you are not able to report your work online via www.dga.org, the DGA Work Report Numbers are another way to keep the Guild informed of job assignments so that we might better serve and protect our members. Within one week of any new job assignment DGA members should call the Work Report Line and provide the Guild with the following information: your name and DGA number, your category, the title of the project and name and phone number of the production company, and the names of any fellow DGA members working with you. To utilize the work report numbers please call the number below that corresponds to your region and follow the prompts: For the West Coast call: 310-289-2040 | For the East Coast call: 212-258-0890 OFFICES DGA National Headquarters — Los Angeles 310-289-2000 / 800-421-4173 New York 212-258-0800 / 800-356-3754 DGA Website www.dga.org REPORTING HOTLINES Contract Violations: 310-289-5300 Safety: 800-342-3457 Sexual Harassment 310-289-2006 or after hours call 800-342-3457 EVENTS INFORMATION AND RSVP LA Events, Screenings & Programs 310-289-5300 NY Screenings Hotline 212-258-0890 DEPARTMENTS Awards Office 310-289-2038 Communications 310-289-5333 Contracts 310-289-2010 Credits 310-289-2013 Directors Guild Foundation 310-289-2037 Membership 310-289-2000 Pension & Health 323-866-2200 Reports & Compliance 310-289-2064 Residuals 310-289-2076 Signatories 310-289-5316 Special Projects 310-289-2088 Operations 310-289-2021 View more excerpts & full interviews online at www.dga.org The DGA's Visual History Program website contains hundreds of hours of videotaped interviews with directors and director's team members discussing their careers and reflections on all aspects of the creative process in film, television and other media. These interviews are indexed for quick retrieval of segments pertaining to specific topics of interest within a particular interview or across the entire collection.