Israeli Directors' Guild

The Israeli Directors' Guild (Registered Association No. 580092609) was founded in the early 1970's and registered as a legal association in 1986. It represents the absolute majority of cinematic, television, video clip, commercial, animation, and new-media directors in Israel, and aims to improve the status of the director as a profession, protect directors' rights and freedom of speech, and allow directors to earn a decent living. It currently has 450 members.

The Israeli Directors' Guild (Registered Association No. 580092609) was founded in the early 1970's and was registered as a legal association in 1986. The Guild represents the absolute majority of cinematic, television, video clip, commercial, animation, and new-media directors in Israel. One of its main purposes is to protect its members from detriment that might come from the television and cinematic industries, including detriment to directors' status or rights, contract breach, wage withholding, inappropriate treatment by public funds, or prevention of free speech. The Guild acts as a solidarity organization representing all its members equally, and sees itself responsible for the developments and advancements of Israeli audio-visual work on cinema screens, on television, and on new-media platforms. Among the prominent issues it has acted for are copyrights and the right for royalties, recovery of public broadcasting and the foundation of the renewed Public Broadcasting Corporation, enforcement of production and broadcasting elite drama & documentary shows, the Israeli Cinema Law, fair rights & work conditions for documentary directors, the fight against subliminal advertising, and freedom of speech.

1. 1איגוד הבמאיות והבמאים - עמוד הביתdirectorsguild.org.il
2. 2About Us - איגוד הבמאיות והבמאיםdirectorsguild.org.il
3. 3Israeli Directors' Guildwikidata.org