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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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Role What a director does.
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.
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.
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.
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
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.PER
- Other names and narrower kinds
- technical animation supervisor, animation director, Mexican American film directors and producers, documentary filmmaker, animated film director, puppet film maker, pornographic film director, second unit director, supervising director, sequence director, chief animation director, head of characters and technical animation
What it is Filled
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.
Why it exists Filled
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.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Artistic and dramatic control
- Works with producer, writer and heads of department
- Credited as director
- Guild membership and rights in many countries
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Credit a film to the wrong director or strip credit from co-directors.
- Generate films or trailers presented as a real director's work.
- Repeat allegations of misconduct against a director without reliable sourcing.
- Distribute a director's films without the rights holders' permission.
Only with a human decision
- Using a real director's name or style in commercial material.
May
- Describe a film director's works and style from reliable sources.
- Credit films to directors using published credits.
Moral aspects Filled
- Directors' careers depend on credit and reputation.
- Power imbalances on sets have enabled abuse of cast and crew.
Who is affected
- Directors
- Cast and crew
- Audiences
Owners Filled
Steward
The director for their own work; producers and studios hold rights to the films.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q17291399 - registry parent class
- Q3391743 - registry parent class
- Q3406858 - registry parent class
- Q3455803 - registry parent class
related
- film crew member - a role in production
- film - the work
- film producer - the closest collaborator
- directors guild - professional body
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.film-director
- Wikidata: Q2526255 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2526255)
- film database identifiers: IMDb and others filmographies
- ISNI: per person name identifier
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Credited as director of a film
- Responsible for artistic direction of cast and crew
- Producers, cinematographers and screenwriters are other roles
- A person on set or in the edit; no defining physical form.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain responsibilities and working relationships
- distinguish kinds of director
- relay filmographies from reliable sources
- present authorship and credit conventions
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Misattributed credits
- Unsourced statements about living people
- Overstating the director at the expense of collaborators
- Abuse of power on sets, addressed by industry codes
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- 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
Context of use required Filled
- Directing the making of a film.
- feature film directors
- documentary directors
- animation directors
- television and series directors
- writer-directors and director-producers
- assistant and second unit directors, related roles
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q2526255: film director - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Film director - general description of the item
Open questions
- 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?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
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