Lesli Linka Glatter, President of the Administrators Guild of America and a high TV director-producer, gave a rousing speech on Saturday night time on the DGA awards, as she recalled the latest L.A. fires, wherein she, and so many others, misplaced their houses.
“By no means have I been extra happy to be along with all of you our storytelling group,” Glatter stated. “It’s no secret that these previous few months, and this previous 12 months actually, have been overwhelmingly tough for our business.” Glatter cited the pandemic, the strikes and now the L.A. fires. “What probably may very well be subsequent?” she requested wryly, to encouraging laughs from the viewers.
“I used to be one of many hundreds who misplaced their dwelling in the course of the wildfires,” Glatter continued. “And what sustained me and so many others in the midst of this deeply painful time was the unimaginable outpouring of compassion and help from associates and colleagues and group and sure, from whole strangers solely motivated solely by kindness.”
Glatter thanked our first responders for his or her tireless efforts to guard the L.A. group and she or he known as the present second “a possibility to replicate and this 12 months particularly to have gratitude and commit ourselves to motion.”
That decision to motion? Administrators should do every little thing they will to convey manufacturing again to L.A., the place it’s badly wanted. “I urge you to insist that your initiatives be shot the place they’re set,” Glatter stated. “If it’s California, demand to shoot in California, and the identical is true for New York, Illinois, Georgia, Mexico… If all of us decide to work collectively, bringing jobs again dwelling to the place they’re most wanted to our metropolis of angels, which has been compelled to its knees.”
Glatter added emphatically, “We merely can’t lose Hollywood,” and went on to say, “I begin prep on my subsequent challenge in March and I’m proud to say it’s taking pictures in Los Angeles.”
Glatter additionally recalled the expertise of returning to the remnants of her dwelling. “Final week I went again to what was left of my neighborhood,” she stated. “Amidst the rubble and particles there was a tree nonetheless standing and it was crammed with shiny yellow flowers. How the f–ok did that occur? In that second, one thing cracked open for me… It forces you to look forward towards the long run and I consider that future is on this room, as a result of we create the tales, and our tales will encourage.”
On January tenth, Glatter first revealed she had misplaced her dwelling in an Instagram submit, writing, “Sadly my home is gone, as is a lot of the Palisades… that is heartbreaking for a lot of. My coronary heart goes out to all those that have misplaced a lot and to these at risk.”
That very same day, Glatter, whose many credit embody The Morning Present, Homeland, The Strolling Useless and Mad Males, despatched a supportive notice to DGA members in regards to the “devastating loss” they have been experiencing. “I’m additionally offended and unhappy that this comes at a second that we have been poised to show a nook after the pandemic, strikes and work contraction,” she wrote. “2025 was to be our 12 months of resurgence. However what provides me hope is you.”
She added: “I’ve been so lucky to name Pacific Palisades dwelling. It’s the place I raised my son and have been dwelling for over 20 years. Tuesday night time, I misplaced my dwelling together with a whole lot of others within the Palisades, Malibu, Altadena, Pasadena, Sierra Madre and different communities the place we’ve got lived, labored and filmed for therefore lengthy. This emergency and the harm so many people are feeling is much from over, however I do know that it doesn’t matter what, we’ll someway persevere and are available out on the opposite aspect of this.”
Glatter is an eight-time Emmy nominee and has been nominated for seven Administrators Guild of America Awards, successful three.
