Hi and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

In today's episode, we're featuring the DGA Special Projects Committee's recent event

the craft of the director, Me New Leader. This series of conversations with master filmmakers

features an in-depth discussion about the directing process from pre-production

through post. Ms. Leader has amassed a variety of directorial credits, including on the

basis of sex, pay it forward, the morning show, the leftovers, shameless, and the West Wing.

Please enjoy Ms. Leader's conversation with fellow director Jeremy Kagan

in front of a virtual audience,

wherein they discuss how instinct informs her visual approach

and the process of reworking the original ending

of On the Basis of Sex to include a cameo

of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Please welcome Mimi Leader, Mimi.

It's great to see you here, great to have you here.

And I've been lucky enough to have the, you know, all of us who are binging at home,

I've been able to have a Mimi Leader Film Festival, which has been quite amazing because

your work, both as a feature film director, as well as a television director, are just, it's pretty

astounding work. So I'm looking forward to your sharing how you do what you do. But the first thing

I wanted to ask you were, who have you learned from? Who have you been your mentors and what have

they taught you? And I know one of your mentors was your dad. But you know, you work with many other

directors. And I'm curious what you've learned from others? Well, you know, you learn everything

from others, from watching their films to working with them.

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