Directing Your Directing Career : Support Book and Agent Guide for Directors

by Callan, K.

• ISBN13: 9781878355119
• ISBN10: 1878355112
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Scb Distributors

Summary

Directing Your Directing Career is the only book in the marketplace written by a working professional that addresses the problems inherent in pursuing a career in directing. Callan's research and experience in the business give her access to top agents in New York and Los Angeles who represent directors, and the background to know what questions to ask.

The first part of the book outlines the director's professional journey toward paying work; the second half presents listings for agents in New York and Los Angeles. The listings detail the agent's background, resume and size of client list. In most cases, a few names from the list are included.

The book includes an analysis of directing as a realistic career choice, the need to focus one's energies on a particular part of the marketplace, how to know when you are ready to move to New York or Los Angeles, how you can be a working director in your own marketplace, relationships with agents and managers, what agents are looking for, and how to go about approaching agents.

An all-important chapter is "Ways in

Table of Contents

Is Directing a Viable Career?	1	(15)
Reality	1	(1)
Are You Talented Enough?	2	(1)
The Young White Males Club	3	(1)
Track Record/Resume/Reel/Age	4	(1)
Ageism	5	(4)
DGA Study on Women and Minority Days Worked	9	(1)
Black Women Are Particularly Invisible	10	(4)
Latino/Hispanic	14	(2)
Focus	16	(5)
Commitment	18
Product Development	16	(2)
Stop Waiting Around	18	(3)
Are You Ready?	21	(8)
Career Plans	23
First Impressions	21	(4)
Goals	25	(2)
Subject Matter	27	(2)
Geography	29	(7)
Establishing a Career	30	(1)
Make a Home for Yourself	31	(1)
Get Your Act Together	32	(1)
Build a Support Group	33	(1)
Take a Class	33	(3)
Ways into the System	36	(58)
The Absolutely Best Way	36	(3)
Do the Schools Really Deserve Any Credit?	39	(2)
Blair Witch Project	41	(1)
Directing Workshops	41	(1)
Propaganda Films	42	(2)
Garage University	44	(1)
A Director's Journey	45	(3)
From Theater to Film	48	(1)
New York Programs that Develop Theater Directors	49	(1)
tiny mythic theater	49	(2)
Career Development Program/Theater Communication Group	51	(1)
Director's Lab/Lincoln Center	51	(1)
The Alternative Graduate School	52	(1)
No Contacts?	52	(1)
Industry Temp Jobs	53	(1)
Ways in for Women and Other Minorities	54	(2)
Money Talks	56	(1)
Teen Movies	57	(1)
Observing	58	(2)
Writing as a Second Language	60	(1)
Take a Writer to Lunch	60	(1)
Jonathan Tolins/The Right Path	61	(1)
Play Festivals	62	(1)
Film and Video Festivals	63	(2)
A Few Competitions	65	(1)
Grants and Foundations	66	(1)
Does Film School Help?	67	(3)
Successful Women Film School Grads	70	(1)
Film Schools That Can make a Difference	71	(2)
Maybe Film School Is Not the Answer	73	(1)
Theater Schools	74	(4)
Internships	78	(1)
Television Academy Internship Programs	78	(2)
Working as an Assistant	80	(1)
Other Kinds of Study	81	(1)
Support Groups	82	(1)
Association of Independent Video and Film, Inc.	82	(1)
Chanticleer Films/The Discovery Program	82	(1)
Independent Television Service	83	(1)
Independent Features Projects	84	(1)
Cinewomen	85	(1)
New Dramatists	86	(1)
Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation	86	(1)
International Theater Reference Books	87	(1)
International Information	87	(1)
Be Informed	88	(1)
Dramatists Sourcebook	88	(1)
Websites for Directors	88	(2)
Your Reference Library	90	(58)
Don't Close Doors	148
Your Film & Its Journey	94	(11)
Producer's Reps	94	(2)
Film Festivals	96	(3)
Short Films	99	(1)
Be Prepared	99	(1)
Internet Marketing	100	(1)
Do It Yourself Distribution	101	(4)
Agents, Finally	105	(11)
How the Business Really Works	106	(1)
Do I Need One?	107	(1)
Why Agents?	107	(2)
What Is an Agent Anyway?	109	(2)
How Did He Get To Be An Agent?	111	(1)
Make It Worth An Agent's While To Talk To You	112	(1)
Any Agent? No Agent?	113	(1)
Franchised Agents	113	(3)
Getting a Meeting	116	(6)
Query Letters	117	(1)
The Meeting	118	(1)
Be the One to End the Meeting	119	(1)
Ask Your Questions Now	119	(1)
If He Doesn't Call	120	(2)
What Everybody Wants	122	(17)
Access	130	(5)
Be Patient	135	(1)
DGA & SSDC Membership Directories	136
Education	132
Inexperienced Client	126	(3)
Size	129	(2)
Stature	131	(1)
Style	131
Things You Will Want to Consider	127	(12)
The Relationship	139	(12)
Synergism	142	(1)
90%-10%	142	(2)
Ways You Can Help	144	(1)
Divorce?	145	(3)
Don't Wait Until It's Too Late	148	(1)
Telling/Shopping	148	(1)
Don't Close Doors	149	(2)
Star/Conglomerate Agencies Managers	151	(15)
Bottom Line	155	(2)
Power Shift	157	(1)
Endeavor	158	(1)
United Talent Agency	159	(1)
FilmMaker Magazine Indie-Friendly Agent Poll	160	(1)
Managers	160	(2)
Ovitz/Managers/Rising Power	162	(1)
California Assembly Speaker Sheila J. Kuehl's Bill	163	(3)
When to Join	166	(1)
Unions/Inspiration	166	(13)
Directors Guild of America	167	(1)
Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers	168	(2)
Life in the Business	170	(2)
What Can You Do For Yourself?	172	(4)
Inspiration	176	(1)
Success	177	(2)
Researching the Agents	179	(9)
Evaluate Carefully	179	(1)
Who's Included in This Book?	180	(1)
Agent Stereotypes	180	(1)
Number of Clients	181	(1)
DGA/SSDC Membership Books	182	(1)
Less is More	183	(1)
Body of Work	183	(1)
Kevin Bacon/Referrals	184	(4)
Agency Listings	188	(123)
Glossary	311	(5)
Indexes	316	(1)
Index to All Agents and Agencies	317	(13)
Index to Directors	330	(3)
Index to Everything Else	333	(3)
Index to Los Angeles Agents/Agencies	336	(8)
Index to Net Addresses	344	(1)
Index to New York Agents/Agencies	345	(3)
Index to Resources	348