Lesli Linka Glatter
Lesli Linka Glatter
Lesli Linka Glatteris an American film and television director. She began her career as a dancer and choreographer. Her first film, Tales of Meeting and Parting, produced by Sharon Oreck, was nominated for an Academy Award in the Live Action Short Film category. She has made several television films for cable networks, but the majority of her work is in television series. Glatter has received four nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
CountryUnited States of America
We've heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don't want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it's just that most of them are white males.
Film schools are now nearly 50-50 male-female, and women are also well represented at festivals and in indie film. But what happens to them after they direct their first film or short? Where do they go? They certainly aren't being given the same opportunities as their male counterparts.
America had the message of freedom and democracy, but we haven't actually shown that to be what we do in the world. So I think that's a terrifying thing.
I was born in Dallas, and I grew up both there and in New York City, which was very schizophrenic.
I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me.
Every creator sets up their world differently. That's what's so amazing about someone like Aaron Sorkin and his writing.
I like to really know what every scene is about, what the text is, what the subtext is. Then I figure out how to express that when I'm shooting.
Like any director working today, I started out when somebody took a shot at hiring me. It's how we all start out - male, female, white or minority.
One of my first episodic jobs was on 'Twin Peaks,' if you can imagine that - one of the most unusual series ever.
The characters, to me, in 'Homeland' are not one note in any way.
To anyone in the position to hire women directors: Make the commitment.
Trust the material; trust the story that you're telling.
When you're working in a collaborative storytelling medium, every step of the way, you're opening yourself up.
As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color.