film director
Let an agent describe the film director as a role, its responsibilities and kinds, relay credits and filmographies from reliable sources, present authorship debates with attribution, and keep statements about living people sourced and neutral.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent describe the film director as a role, its responsibilities and kinds, relay credits and filmographies from reliable sources, present authorship debates with attribution, and keep statements about living people sourced and neutral.
The person who directs the making of a film, controlling its artistic and dramatic aspects, guiding the cast and crew, interpreting the screenplay and shaping the final edit; directors work in fiction, documentary, animation and other forms, are credited as the primary author of a film in many traditions, and are represented by guilds that negotiate their rights.
What it is for: Directing the making of a film.
It can be explain responsibilities and working relationships; distinguish kinds of director; relay filmographies from reliable sources; present authorship and credit conventions.
Distinguishing features
Artistic and dramatic control
Works with producer, writer and heads of department
Credited as director
Guild membership and rights in many countries
What it looks like
A person on set or in the edit; no defining physical form.
How it is recognised
Credited as director of a film
Responsible for artistic direction of cast and crew
Producers, cinematographers and screenwriters are other roles
Related models
is a kind of - a role in production
directs - the work
works with - the closest collaborator
is represented by - professional body
In practice
Families and kinds
feature film directors
documentary directors
animation directors
television and series directors
writer-directors and director-producers
assistant and second unit directors, related roles
Identifiers
film database identifiers IMDb and others filmographies
ISNI per person name identifier
Standards and regulation
Guild agreements on credits and rights
Copyright and moral rights law, which treats directors as authors in some countries
Employment and safety rules on set
Failure modes and hazards
Misattributed credits
Unsourced statements about living people
Overstating the director at the expense of collaborators
Abuse of power on sets, addressed by industry codes
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Role What a director does.
Definition.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities.
- What does a director do across development, production and post-production? definition
- Is the question about the director or another film role? boundary
Kinds
Kinds of director.
Kinds
Kinds.
- How do fiction, documentary, animation and television directing differ? definition
- Which entry fits a related role? action
Work Practice and career.
Practice.
Collaboration
Working with others.
Collaboration
Collaboration.
- How does the director work with producers, writers, actors and heads of department? provenance
- Which entry fits film production? action
Career
Training and careers.
Career
Career.
- How do people become directors, and how are careers organised? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Record Credits and people.
Sourced facts.
Credits
Filmographies.
Credits
Credits.
- Where are directing credits recorded, and how are disputes over credit resolved? provenance
- Is the statement about a living person sourced and neutral? boundary
Rights
Rights.
Rights
Rights.
- What rights and guild protections do directors have, in general terms? provenance
- Is the user asking about their own contract, which needs a lawyer or guild? boundary
Theory Authorship and history.
Attribution.
Authorship
Auteur debates.
Authorship
Authorship.
- How do auteur theory and its critics treat the director as author, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
History
History.
History
History.
- How did the role of director develop from early cinema to today? provenance
- Which entry fits film history? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should animation and documentary directors be separate entries?
- How should film databases be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific groups and narrow roles; should they be split off?