DGA President Lesli Linka Glatter Calls For Return To L.A. Production, Reveals “Deeply Painful” Experience Of Losing Home In Fires – DGA Awards

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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 together with all of you our storytelling community,” Glatter said. “It’s no secret that these past few months, and this past year really, have been overwhelmingly difficult for our industry.” Glatter cited the pandemic, the strikes and now the L.A.

fires. “What possibly could be next?” she asked wryly, to encouraging laughs from the audience. “I was one of the thousands who lost their home during the wildfires,” Glatter continued. “And what sustained me and so many others in the middle of this deeply painful time was the incredible outpouring of compassion and support from friends and colleagues and community and yes, from total strangers only motivated only by kindness.” Glatter thanked our first responders for their tireless efforts to protect the L.A.

community and she called the current moment “an opportunity to reflect and this year especially to have gratitude and commit ourselves to action.” That call to action?