DGN Week
Oct 3rd 2022
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About DGN
Who we Are
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.
Abou the Guild
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.
DGN Objectives
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
WHAT'S NEW
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- Inside DGN
Writers Converge in Lagos
– Writers Converge in Lagos as IFBA, LSFVCB Holds Screenwriting Workshop – In light of the need for capacity building and a higher level of professionalism in the Nigerian motion […]
AMVCA 2022
– AMVCA 2022: DGN Congratulates Members, President Okhai On Their Victories – After a two-year hiatus, on Saturday night, the 8th edition of Africa’s most prestigious film award, Africa Magic […]
Up Close With Ovunda Ihunwo As He Rekindles ‘Hopes Of The Living Dead’
On October 1, 2021, one of Nigeria’s greatest cinematic theatre directors, Chief Dr. Ovunda Ihunwo fta, will produce ‘Hopes Of The Living Dead’. a play written by Prof. Ola Rotimi, […]
Igbinedion University, DGN Collaborates On Capacity Building’
Nigeria’s premier and leading private university, Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State have partnered with the Directors’ Guild of Nigeria (DGN) in the area of training and capacity building. The Vice-Chancellor […]
DGN Collaborates With ROK Studios
Representatives of the custodian of the art & culture of film-making in Nigeria, Directors’ Guild of Nigeria (DGN) paid a courtesy visit to the award winning Lagos based Africa TV & Film production […]
Message from the President
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
17 June
Writers Converge in Lagos
– Writers Converge in Lagos as IFBA, LSFVCB Holds Screenwriting Workshop – In light of the need for capacity...
15 May
AMVCA 2022
- AMVCA 2022: DGN Congratulates Members, President Okhai On Their Victories - After a two-year hiatus, on Saturday night,...
12 September
Up Close With Ovunda Ihunwo As He Rekindles ‘Hopes Of The Living Dead’
On October 1, 2021, one of Nigeria’s greatest cinematic theatre directors, Chief Dr. Ovunda Ihunwo fta, will produce ‘Hopes...
9 June
Igbinedion University, DGN Collaborates On Capacity Building’
Nigeria’s premier and leading private university, Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State have partnered with the Directors’ Guild of Nigeria...
17 April