TORONTO – The Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) has promoted Dave Forget to its national executive director effective July 1st, replacing Brian Baker who will take on the role of senior advisor at the Guild’s Montreal office.
Forget (pictured) first joined the Guild in 2015, following a 14-year career with Telefilm. Prior to that, he held various management positions in film distribution, including at Red Sky Entertainment, 20th Century Fox and Alliance Atlantis Releasing.
“We are thrilled that Dave Forget has agreed to lead our staff at the Guild,” said DGC president Tim Southam, in the announcement. “In his three years as Director of Policy, Dave has built a stronger presence for the Guild in Ottawa than ever before and played an instrumental leadership role in our successful campaign to have last year’s disastrous Group Licence Renewals sent back to the CRTC. I know Dave will bring that same level of excellence to his new role as National Executive Director.”
The Directors Guild of Canada is a national labour organization that represents over 4,800 key creative and logistical personnel in the screen-based industry covering all areas of direction, design, production and editing.
