Lesli Linka Glatter Elected DGA President

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Lesli Linka Glatter Elected DGA President
Lesli Linka Glatter directed “Now and Then.”

Lesli Linka Glatter was elected president of the Directors Guild of America on Sept. 18 at DGA National Headquarters in Hollywood Hills West. She replaces Thomas Schlamme, who served as president from 2017-2021.

Glatter has been part of the union’s national board since 2003. As a member of multiple basic agreement negotiating committees, she helped facilitate increases in made-for-SVOD (subscription video on demand) residuals as well as wage, pension contribution and creative rights gains. She also joined the Return to Work Committee, which helped negotiate safety protocols to get productions back up and running during the Covid-19 pandemic.


Glatter first joined the DGA in 1985. After helming episodes of acclaimed television series like “Amazing Stories” and “Twin Peaks,” Glatter made her feature debut in 1995 with the coming-of-age film “Now and Then.”


“I am committed to continuing our Guild’s great legacy of protecting the economic and creative rights of our members — always with our eye on the future,” Glatter said in a statement. 

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Todd Gilchrist is a Los Angeles-based reporter and film critic with 20+ years of experience at dozens of print and online outlets, including Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly and Fangoria. An obsessive soundtrack collector, sneaker aficionado and member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Todd currently lives in Silverlake, California with his amazing wife Julie, two cats Beatrix and Biscuit, and several thousand books, vinyl records and Blu-rays.

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