This Director’s Loan-Out Agreement (Feature Film/DGA) is an agreement between a producer and a lender for a director’s services with regard to a motion picture. By this agreement, the lending company agrees to lend the director in order to direct a motion picture for producer. The agreement contains specific terms regarding engagement and services, compensation, screen credit and remedies available in the event of default. In addition, this agreement incorporates Additional Terms and Conditions, an Inducement Letter and Low Cost Side Letter as exhibits. It is crucial that a Director’s Loan-Out Agreement be memorialized in writing in the event there are misunderstandings between the parties.

This Director’s Loan-Out Agreement (Feature Film/DGA) contains the following provisions:

• Parties: Sets out the name of the producer, the lending company, the director and the title of the motion picture;
• Services: The services director is expected to render including photography, pre- production services, final cutting authority and any additional post-production services;
• Compensation: The compensation paid including fixed, deferred, contingent, pay or play and guild plans;
• Unique Services: Director agrees to render services exclusively to producer until the end of the term of this agreement;
• Union/Guild Agreement: Director is required to remain or become a member of any designated labor organization at his/her own cost and expense;
• Signatures: Both the production company and lending company must sign this agreement.

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