Director’s Guild of America Supports New York Diversity Bill

Film writer, producer, and director Christopher J. Scott serves as a managing member of Domicile Films, an independent film and television production company in New York with more than five decades of filmmaking experience among its owners. Christopher J. Scott also belongs to the Director’s Guild of America (DGA), which works closely with the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA), East to support diversity legislation in New York.

Most recently, the DGA and the WGA, East lent their support for the introduction of a bill designed to facilitate diverse hiring and address the industry’s broken pipeline. The diversity bill affects the $420 million Empire State Film Production Tax Credit, which rewarded companies for producing film projects in New York and contributed toward sustaining jobs in the film industry. The first of its kind, the bipartisan bill modifies the Film Production Tax Credit to include the distribution of $5 million for television productions that hire women and people of color as writers and directors. Distributed amounts are capped at $50,000 per hire.