Everything you see in the cinema and on television is directed. This means images were chosen, created and manipulated.  Directors are at the centre of this process. They provide the vision, make the choices, lead the production.

Directors UK is the professional association of directors working with the moving image in the UK.

Directors UK exists to ensure that the importance and centrality of directors is recognised, and to give directors a powerful and united voice at the centre of the industry.

Film and TV are a great British success story and our membership ranges from internationally renowned and award-winning directors to novices on their first professional assignments and student directors.

We work with them at every stage in their career to:

Protect and enhance directors’ creative rights - This means ensuring their control of their material, protecting them from bad working practices, supporting them collectively.  Directors are authors of their work under copyright law.

We negotiate, collect, and manage the right to receive payment for the use of their work for all directors working in the UK. Working with broadcasters and our international partners we operate a sophisticated monitoring, collection and royalty distribution system.

We are the voice of directors at every level.  We represent directors and directing to Government in the UK and in Europe, to broadcasters, to regulators, to other industry bodies and to the media.

We provide valuable services and benefits to our members and ensure they are involved.  Directors UK unites directors, creates opportunities, and supports every member.  Central to our purpose is the encouragement, protection and development of our members. While directors work alone, DIRECTORS UK is about unifying them, strengthening them.

Directors work in a multitude of ways. Some write, some produce, some make feature films, some make television programmes, some direct music videos, others are involved in commercials and games. What unites directors is vision.  We make things happen: the position, status, and security of directors is not simply good for us, it is also good for the industry.