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2 0 I D G A M O N T H L Y EAST COAST ADDITIONS Christian Agypt, UPM Mara B. Alcaly, 2AD Eric Altieri, 2AD Dustin J. Bewley, 2AD Sarah C. Brooke, DIR Matthew B. Chamberlin, 2AD Cherien Dabis, DIR Andrew Dosunmu, DIR Joseph M. Gelosi, DIR Greta Gerwig, DIR Bruce E. Hall, 1AD Zachary Heinzerling, DIR Janice Johnston, DIR Anton Josef, DIR Michael Karasick, DIR Michael R. Killen, DIR Alexandre Moors, DIR Brian J. Nalesnik, DIR Brendan O'Rourke, 2AD Christopher Place, DIR James D. Platt, DIR Alejandro Ramia, 2AD Shuvi Sommer, DIR Susan P. Todd, DIR Wayne C. Yip, DIR Membership Report WEST COAST ADDITIONS Melanie Aitkenhead, DIR Dave Anthony, DIR Michele S. Atkins, DIR Jacoba A. Atlas, DIR Justin Baldoni, DIR Eda Benjakul, 1AD Tessa Blake, DIR Sarah Boyd, DIR Paul J. Briganti, DIR Casey C. Brown, DIR Jonny Campbell, DIR Giuseppe Capotondi, DIR Mimi Cave, DIR Glenn Clements, DIR Eileen M. Conn, DIR Michael G. Cooney, DIR Steve De Castro, DIR Sarah J. Donohue, UPM Helen R. Downing, DIR Wendy A. Faraone, DIR Andrew Fried, DIR Dan Gifford, DIR Jose K. Gonsalves, 1AD Andre A. Gordon, DIR Ben Gregor, DIR David Grifhorst, DIR Jason Hall, DIR Runar Ingi, DIR Susan Johnson, DIR Steven Kane, DIR Grant Lau, DIR Joel D. Lava, DIR Bernard MacMahon, DIR Tomas Mankovsky, DIR Padraic McKinley, DIR Andrew McLeod, DIR Eric Notarnicola, DIR Michele Ohayon, DIR Casey O'Neill, DIR Michael G. Parrott, DIR Armen R. Perian, DIR Greg Plageman, DIR Lino Russell, DIR Ian T. Schwartz, DIR Luke Scott, DIR Megan M. Shank, 2AD Florian Sigl, DIR Gregory E. Smith, DIR Brian Stepanek, DIR Michael P. Stephenson, DIR Martin T. Stirling, DIR Helder K. Sun, DIR L. Warren Thompson, DIR Erik Van Wyk, DIR Tucker M. Walsh, DIR Jude Weng, DIR Jet Wilkinson, DIR J. Austin Wilson, DIR Robert C. Beiner, DIR Kathleen M. Fortine, AD John M. Fuller, DIR Harvey Keith, DIR Flora M. Lang, UPM John B. Power, DIR Lee E. Rafner, UPM IN MEMORIAM To visit the DGA Visual History Collection, click the quick link on the homepage of www.dga.org Recent Visual History Additions 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. Director Michael Apted Veteran feature and documentary film director and past-president of the DGA Michael Apted discusses his 45-plus year directorial career, highlighting his work on the Seven Up! documentary series, Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), and Nell (1994), among other notable projects. Apted on lessons he learned from shooting documentaries: "I'm sure there's thousands of lessons, but I never rehearse anything on a documentary. If you're doing an interview, never touch it. It has to be the first time it's ever been said and thought. And you've got to know when to quit. I mean you've got to know when something is never going to work for you. Either it's tired out or it isn't any good anyway, you've got to be able to move on. The metaphor I use is you're harvesting material. You don't know what's going to work and if an interview isn't going to work, move on." Michael Apted interviewed by Jeremy Kagan Director Alan Myerson Myerson discusses his 30-plus year career directing feature films such as Steelyard Blues and episodic television programs like The Larry Sanders Show; his involvement with Second City; and the formation of the world-renowned improvisational troupe, The Committee. Myerson on what he believes to be a Director's most important tool: "In my estimation, the most important tool we have as Directors is empathy. Is the ability, or the attempt at least, to actually experience what another person's experience — not the sympathy, but the empathy. That's the empathy for the actor, for the character, for the crew, for the other characters in the story, for the events, and for yourself. To be able to experience what you're actually experiencing is, I think, the most significant thing that we have to draw on and that we have to offer as Directors." Alan Myerson interviewed by Howard Storm PRIMARY CATEGORY CHANGES J.E. Barrows to 1AD James "Billy" Burton to 1AD Lisa Meier Coll to 1AD Rami Rivera Frankl to DIR Sean A. Kavanagh to DIR Steven J. Kung to DIR Francisco S. Ortiz to 1AD Tim Silver to UPM Tim Waterman to 1AD