Here’s your chance to virtually meet with prolific Award-winning Director and Executive Producer, Lesli Linka Glatter!
In your one-hour Zoom, Lesli will answer your questions about what it takes to become a director or producer. She can share what kind of subject matter studios find appetizing in our current climate. You can also discuss your own personal material and ideas. Plus, ask Glatter about her creative process, future plans and of course her groundbreaking work.
Lesli Linka Glatter is a Director of film, network, and premium cable television drama, with both pilots and episodes to her credit. Lesli’s TV work includes Love and Death, The Morning Show, Homeland, The Newsroom, The Walking Dead, Justified, Ray Donovan, Masters of Sex, True Blood, Mad Men, The Leftovers, The Good Wife, The West Wing, NYPD Blue, ER, Freaks and Geeks and Twin Peaks. Lesli has also directed numerous pilots including Gilmore Girls, Pretty Little Liars and SIX. Her films include Now and Then,The Proposition and for HBO, State of Emergency.
Lesli has been a Producing Director for the last 25 years, and is currently the Executive Producer/Director of Zero Day, a Netflix limited series written by Eric Newman and Noah Oppenheim, starring Robert DeNiro, as well as Love and Death, an HBO limited series written by David E. Kelley and starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jesse Plemons. Lesli was the Executive Producer/Director of the award winning series Homeland for 6 seasons. She began her directing career through the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women, in which her film Tales of Meeting and Parting was nominated for an Oscar. Lesli has been nominated for 8 Director’s Guild of America (“DGA”) Awards, most recently winning her third DGA Award for directing the Homeland series finale, having won twice before for Mad Men and Homeland. Lesli has received 8 Emmy nominations and a Humanitus Award nomination for HBO’s State of Emergency. Lesli is currently developing projects for Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Epix and HBO. Lesli and her producing partner Cheryl Bloch’s company, Backyard Pictures, recently signed a deal with Sony Pictures Television.
Lesli currently serves as the President of the Directors Guild of America. She also serves on the Executive Committee of the Directors Branch of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Lesli is an advisor at the Sundance Institute’s Director’s Lab and has been committed to mentoring for many years and most recently helped develop the successful NBC program, Female Forward. Glatter has received the Caucus Foundation Award, the Dorothy Arzner Directing Award from Women in Film and the Franklin Schaffner Award from the American Film Institute, as well as an Honorary Degree from the American Film Institute.