DGACA

DIRECTORS GUILD of AMERICA CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION

SCQL - 2nd Assistant Director

REQUIREMENTS SCQL: 2ND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

(Excerpted from Article 14 of the 2017 Basic Agreement between the DGA and the AMPTP)


14-302

...Any individual who has been employed four hundred (400) days in work as a Second Assistant Director, First Assistant Director, Unit Production Manager, Technical Coordinator, or Associate Director/Technical Coordinator in the production of motion pictures of the type covered hereunder shall be eligible to be placed on the Second Assistant Directors' Southern California Qualification List. Of such four hundred (400) days, no 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. Likewise, Stage Managers or Associate Directors in the live and tape television industry employed four hundred (400) days in the production of motion pictures of the type covered hereunder, or six (6) years in the nationwide feed of television motion pictures, shall be eligible to be placed on the Second Assistant Directors' Southern California Qualification List.

Likewise, any individual who has been employed four hundred (400) days in the production of motion pictures of the type covered hereunder as a Director (at least two hundred sixty (260) days of which shall have been in directing the actual shooting of film or tape) shall be eligible to be placed on the Second Assistant Directors' Southern California Qualification List.

To be eligible to be placed on the Southern California Second Assistant Directors' Qualification List, a Trainee or Intern must complete four hundred (400) days of on-the-job training in the production of motion pictures of the type covered hereunder. Of such four hundred (400) days, no more than twenty-five percent (25%) may be spent in preparation or office work and least seventy-five percent (75%) must be spent with the actual shooting company.

If the work performed on a motion picture by a person, other than a person employed in a classification covered by this BA, consists solely of crowd control, then such work shall not be deemed qualifying work for the purposes of placement on the Second Assistant Directors' Qualification List.

 

Summary:

  • 400 total days worked as a UPM and/or 1st AD and/or 2nd AD on projects of the type covered
  • days as an Associate Director and/or Stage Manager can be applied
  • at least 300 days of the 400 total worked on shooting/production days
  • at least 1 day of qualifying work within the last 6 months

or:

  • 400 days worked as a Director on projects of the type covered
  • at least 260 days of the 400 total worked on shooting/production days as a Director
  • at least 1 day of qualifying work within the last 6 months

or:

  • completion of the Directors Guild-Producer Training Plan Assistant Directors Training Program
  • call (818) 386-2545 or visit www.trainingplan.org