DGA President Lesli Linka Glatter Requires Extra U.S. Manufacturing

DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter opened the 77th annual DGA Awards Saturday evening through calling on studio executives and best manufacturers to paintings to “convey manufacturing again to the U.S. and convey it again in pressure.”

Linka Glatter advised the gang on the Beverly Hilton that she was once a few of the 1000’s of people that misplaced houses within the wildfire that devastated the Pacific Palisades house of Los Angeles remaining month. She famous how a lot the generosity of the inventive group has sustained her as she types thru her loss. With nice choice, Linka Glatter mentioned the jolt of the fires has made her recommit to operating arduous to push state and federal leaders to rebuild in Los Angeles and to do extra to strengthen the movie and TV industries that force such a lot employment throughout Southern California.

“This night may be an evening of motion to concentrate on re-imagining our rfuture. Our trade has been dealt extra blows than we idea conceivable,” she mentioned. “If ever there was once a time to rally to get again on our ft and get again to paintings, it’s now.

“To the studio executives and manufacturers within the target market, I name on you to be a part of this dedication,” she mentioned, urging them to strengthen “the administrators and their crew participants, actors, writers, IA crews and Teamsters who constructed this trade and constructed your firms. Convey manufacturing again to the U.S. and convey it again in pressure,” she mentioned.

The Palisades firestorm erupted on Jan. 7, the similar evening a harmful wildfire broke out about 35 miles to the east in Altadena, the foothill group that sits atop Pasadena within the San Gabriel Valley. The Palisades blaze destroyed greater than 6,800 constructions and unfold to about 23,500 acres. The Altadena fireplace demolished greater than 7,000 constructions and burned throughout greater than 14,000 acres.

Linka Glatter is one among TV’s busiest director-producers, having labored on such notable sequence as “Hometown,” “Mad Males,” “The Leftovers,” “Lovely Little Liars,” “The West Wing,” “The Excellent Spouse,” “Dual Peaks” and extra. She was once reelected to a 2nd two-year time period as DGA president in Would possibly 2023.

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