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Native Hosts CDDP Panel Promoting Director Diversity

02/03/2018
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Los Angeles, United States
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The panel kicked off a series of workshops for up & coming directors

Native Content hosted the Commercial Directors Diversity Program (CDDP) recently, kicking off a series of panels and workshops supporting unsigned directors from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds.

Over the next three months, five talented directors handpicked by the CDDP will benefit from workshops, mentoring, shadowing and networking to increase their opportunities in the world of commercial directing.  Native is lucky enough to be mentoring one of these awesome artists - Erica Eng - who you’ll definitely be seeing more of over the coming months.


On the first day of the weekend-long workshop, the group joined director Ben West (CD at Framestore) and Native’s very own EP Ned Brown for the first panel discussion of the day, Defining the Director’s Brand, organised by Program Director Tamika Lamison. 

Our second workshop was Giving Great Calls (so important!), led by Shannon Jones (EP at Smuggler), Laura Keserick (Agency Producer at Pitch), and Sean Meehan (Arts & Sciences). All the panelists contributed amazing advice and insight, garnered from their years of experience in this crazy industry.


Future workshops will cover the bidding process, writing and creating treatments, how to run callbacks, tech scouts, pre-pro meetings, and (gulp) how to meet the on-set needs of the agency and client.

The program will culminate in a grant awarded to create a spec commercial – and we can’t wait to see it.

Check out www.cddprogram.org to find out more.





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