Master Classes are in-depth, interactive learning experiences focused on craft and career building and led by renowned industry experts. Topics include fiction and documentary filmmaking, TV writing and production, and navigating and succeeding in the entertainment industry.

Learn how to bring a scene from script to screen with your unique vision—the essence of film and television directing. In this three-hour Master Class, DGA Award-winning and Emmy-nominated director and producer Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland, Mad Men) shares her approach to creative decision-making and reveals the process of blocking and designing complex, cinematic scenes for some of television’s most beloved shows.

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Topics covered include:

00:00 - Welcome and Introduction from Sundance Collab

04:40 - Welcome from Lesli

05:30 - Paths to Directing

14:45 - The Importance of Story

20:00 - How to Prepare for a New Project

30:00 - Prep for Pre-Production: Collaboration with the Writer, Cast, and Crew

44:45 - Pre-Production: Creating the Visual Language of the Story

01:01 - Location Scouting

01:17 - Creating Anxiety with Camerawork

01:20 - Live Reading of Homeland Sequence

01:37 - Breakdown of Shot Lists and Storyboards from Homeland

01:45 - Clip: Commentary on Scene From Homeland

02:13 - Live Reading of Mad Men Sequence

02:28 - Clip: Commentary on Scene From Mad Men

02:33 - Q&A