Lesli Linka Glatter has had quite the charmed career as a director. After beginning as a modern dancer and choreographer, she switched lanes and directed her first project in 1985, a live-action short called Tales of Meeting and Parting. It won her an…

The Netflix FYSEE event “Rebels & Rulebreakers” kicking off the streamer’s 2025 awards-season showcase got the Deadline Portrait treatment Saturday, May 17, when the network’s talent gathered at Netflix’s Tudum Theater in Los Angeles. A red carpet and a pair of panels  drew directors, showrunners and stars…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran TV director-producer Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland, Zero Day) has been tapped to direct the pilot and executive produce Apple TV+’s new limited series Imperfect Women, starring and executive produced by Elisabeth Moss and Kerry Washington. Adapted for television by Physical…

Lesli Linka Glatter, President of the Directors Guild of America and a top TV director-producer, gave a rousing speech on Saturday night at the DGA awards, as she recalled the recent L.A. fires, in which she, and so many others, lost their homes. “Never have I been more pleased to be…

Top TV director-producer and President of the Directors Guild of America Lesli Linka Glatter was one one many prominent Hollywood figures who lost their homes in the Palisades fire. The eight-time Emmy nominee, who has worked on such series as Homeland, Pretty Little Liars, Mad Men, The Morning…

Despite the progress that the guilds made with studios last year, DGA President Lesli Linka Glatter says the fight isn’t over. “Now it is the time to support the IATSE and Teamsters in their upcoming battle,” said Glatter in her opening speech at the 2024 DGA Awards, “We won't be satisfied…

Lesli Linka Glatter has been re-elected president of the Directors Guild of America by acclamation of the delegates at the DGA's Biennial National Convention in Los Angeles. “I am thrilled to say we are as strong and united as ever before,” she said. “Together, we will continue our shared fight…

The Directors Guild said today that it "remains steadfast in our fight for an equitable and inclusive society" despite the Supreme Court's rulings this week that rolled back affirmative action and LGBTQ+ rights. On Thursday, the high court banned colleges and universities from taking race into…

The Directors Guild's tentative agreement for a new film and TV contract "is the biggest we've ever negotiated" and "is almost double what we got last time," former DGA President Paris Barclay says in a new video posted on the guild's website featuring members touting the deal. Barclay…

Voting is now underway for the ratification of the new DGA film and TV contract. Members were sent ballots tonight along with the memorandum of agreement, as well as an executive summary of the new deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The tentative agreement was approved…

This podcast is spoiler free in regards to today’s final episode of HBO’s limited series Love & Death, “Ssssshh” On today’s episode of Crew Call we speak with Love & Death EP and episodic director Lesli Linka Glatter who walks us through the psychology, and the symbolic visual imagery of the…

When Lesli Linka Glatter and Elizabeth Olsen first dug into journalistic material charting the tale of Candy Montgomery, the infamous axe-murdering housewife of Wylie, Texas, in preparation for their work on the miniseries Love & Death, neither could believe what they were reading. Olsen…