DGN Week
Oct 3rd 2022
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We are a group of stakeholders, both past and present, who have been providing direction to the movie industry, and set to create development opportunities in export, youth employment and National growth.
The Directors’ Guild of Nigeria (DGN) is a professional body for Directors involved in the creative sector (Film/Television/Stage) in Nigeria. The Directors’ Guild of Nigeria is the apex guild in the audio-visual sector of the creative industries.
Created as a platform to mutually benefit, protect the interests and welfare of its members, as well as its other stakeholders, the guild will achieve these objectives through
The Directors’ Guild of Nigeria, boasts of a unique founding history, six men sat together despite extraneous circumstances in 1999 unhappy with the unprofessional treatment of Directors in the emerging Nollywood. Practices including Copy Right Infringements, poor remuneration, inadequate welfare, and poor crediting vexed these men who came to be known as The Six Angry Men, they came to a resolution, and DGN was born. DGN recognizes this date as the true founding date of the Guild. 2019 is the year of The 20th Anniversary of DGN