Film Director Services

Here is how the work lines up. New York's directing canon. Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Woody Allen, Sidney Lumet's legacy, the Coen Brothers, Jim Jarmusch, the Safdies, Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach, Whit Stillman, Sofia Coppola, Wes Anderson's NYC ties, Steven Soderbergh's East Coast work, Lena Dunham, Lulu Wang, and Lin-Manuel Miranda — has built a directing culture defined by character-led story, urban texture, and the auteur tradition American independent cinema was born from in Greenwich Village, Soho, and the East Village in the 1970s and 1980s.

Here is how the picture comes together. Our roster reflects that range with DGA East-credentialed feature directors carrying Sundance, Tribeca Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Gotham Awards, and Independent Spirit credits, prestige-series directors operating inside A24, Killer Films, Plan B, Annapurna, Bad Robot, Imagine, Sister, and Wiip's New York slates, music-video and fashion directors with NY Fashion Week and the Brooklyn music-scene background, and high-end commercial directors with rosters at the agency network on Madison Avenue.

Here is what we have to work with. Most directors are bilingual where shoots need it across NYC's polyglot crew base, work fluently with Local 600 East cinematographers like Bradford Young, Sean Bobbitt, Andrij Parekh, Adam Newport-Berra, Maryse Alberti, and Reed Morano, and carry the Tisch, Columbia Film, Pratt, and SVA training the city's directing pipeline makes.

Here is the layout. Production-wise, our directors work across Steiner Studios at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Silvercup in Queens and the Bronx, Kaufman Astoria, Broadway Stages, and Wildflower Studios, with location range that runs Manhattan's skyscrapers and brownstones, Brooklyn's DUMBO and Williamsburg, Queens' Astoria and Long Island City, the Bronx and Staten Island, plus Hudson Valley, Long Island, and Yonkers stages within the New York State Film Tax Credit zone.

Here is how the work shapes up. Non-English-speaking visiting directors are paired with bilingual first ADs and DGA East-credentialed line producers so creative intent moves cleanly through Local 52 crew culture, with editors from the Thelma Schoonmaker, Sam Pollard, Tim Squyres, and Susan E. Morse lineage in Local 700 ACE East, production designers in USA 829, and Avy Kaufman, Ellen Lewis, and Sheila Jaffe-tier casting open on call.

Here is how it adds up. The New York State Film Tax Credit (up to 30% via the Empire State Film Production Credit, $700M annual cap) covers qualifying director and crew spend on episodic, feature, and commercial work, and we structure engagements to keep eligibility intact from prep through delivery to the NYFF, Tribeca, Sundance, Gotham, or Emmy window.