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S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 6 I 3 1 FIELD REPS Bart Daudelin (212) 258-0809 BartD@dga.org Jon Drew (310) 279-7693 JDrew@dga.org Gabe Kahsay (310) 562-8455 GabeK@dga.org Joseph Longo (212) 258-0813 JLongo@dga.org Victoria Pistone (212) 258-0808 VPistone@dga.org Faith Santilla (213) 453-6660 FSantilla@dga.org Heather Williams (310) 347-5565 HWilliams@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 Safety Hotline: (800) DGA-3457 / (800) 342-3457 Contract Violation Hot Line: (310) 289-5300 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) 289-5362 Special Projects (310) 289-2088 Operations (310) 289-2021 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. Anita Cooper-Avrick discusses her 36-year career stage managing television programs ranging from Soap and The People's Court to Mr. Belvedere and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air; her AD/SM/PA Council West participation; and her extensive Guild involvement. Cooper-Avrick on qualities of a successful Stage Manager: "I think you have to have compassion to be a Stage Manager. I think you have to really like people and not have an ego. You have to check your ego at the door, because so many times even when we're right we're wrong. So you have to be able to accept that and not feel 'I'm right and you're wrong and you just got proved wrong and I'm gonna gloat.' It's more of a, 'how do we get this done, and how is it that I can help you?' Because you're not the top person. You're a Stage Manager, but the Director is the top person that you're working for. So you have to be able to help them see what you're seeing, or if you see something's going on, you've gotta be able to build a relationship to talk to 'em." Anita Cooper-Avrick interviewed by Julie Gelfand Victoria Hochberg discusses her career directing episodic television (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Sex and the City), movies for television (Jacob Have I Loved, Sweet 15), and her involvement in the founding of the DGA's Women's Steering Committee. Hochberg on being a leader: "I think a leader is somebody who is able to encourage people to give the best they can and to create an environment where they can do that towards a vision that is something that you want to express. Not to squelch them, but to let them do what they're good at. The best thing about directing is that you're creating something that didn't exist... All you had was a bunch of paper with words on it. All of a sudden you have this thing that exists, that people can see all over the world ... And when you're making it, if everybody's pulling together to make it, it works because everybody's done what they're supposed to do, what they know how to do, what they're trained to do. There's nothing better than that. It's a glorious feeling." Victoria Hochberg interviewed by Linda Feferman