REQUIREMENTS SCQL: FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
(Excerpted from Article 14 of the 2014 Basic Agreement between the DGA and the AMPTP)

14-303

(a)

A person qualifies for the Southern California First Assistant Directors' Qualification List if the person has been employed and has completed at least five hundred twenty (520) working days as a Second Assistant Director in the production of motion pictures of the type covered hereunder.

(b)

A person qualifies for the Southern California First Assistant Directors' Qualification List if the person has been employed and completed at least five hundred twenty (520) working days either as a Second Assistant Director in the production of motion pictures of the type covered hereunder or as an Associate Director or Stage Manager in the production of dramatic and/or variety programs of the type covered hereunder.

(c)

Of the working days described in subparagraphs (a) and (b) above, not more than twenty-five percent (25%) may be spent in preparation or office work and at least seventy-five percent (75%) must be spent with the actual shooting company. Of the seventy-five percent (75%) spent with the actual shooting company, ten percent (10%) must be on location (distant or local).

(d)

Also, any individual who has been employed four hundred (400) days in work as a First Assistant Director in the production of motion pictures of the type covered hereunder shall be eligible for placement on the Southern California First Assistant Directors' Qualification List. Of such working days, not more than twenty-five percent (25%) may be spent in preparation or office work and at least seventy-five percent (75%) must be spent with the actual shooting company. Of the seventy-five percent (75%) spent with the actual shooting company, ten percent (10%) must be on distant location.