Director, Film Credits

Sony Pictures Entertainment•Culver City, CA

4d•$120,000 - $140,000

About The Position

Sony Pictures Entertainment is seeking a Director, Film Credits to manage the screen credits process for film and television projects. This role involves detailed contract analysis, ensuring compliance with guild rules and company policies, and coordinating with various internal and external stakeholders. The Director will also supervise a team of Coordinators, manage submission processes for awards like the Academy Awards and Golden Globes, and advise on best practices for screen credits. This is a critical role in maintaining legal and contractual compliance for all projects.

Requirements

7+ years of direct experience administering screen credits
5+ years leading the screening credits process
Working familiarity with Writer (WGA), Director (DGA), and Actor (SAG-AFTRA), Editor’s Guild and DGC, etc., credit manuals.
Detail-oriented: Ability to act as an "auditor" of names, titles, and contractual obligations.
Information Management: Communicating directly with producers, legal affairs, and studios while operating under tight, fluid post-production timeframes.
Ability to work proactively, independently, and reliably under tight time frames in a fast-paced environment.
Flexible, innovative, and solution-driven team player.

Nice To Haves

Experience in creating and administrating paid ad items would be a plus.

Responsibilities

Analyze and interpret contracts to summarize legal and guild screen credit obligations.
Anticipate and follow up on credit provisions that violate standard process and precedence.
Create the exact layout for opening ("main") and closing ("end") titles for each project, ensuring strict adherence to guild rules and Sony policy.
Administer main and end titles to meet delivery deadlines and ensure contractual and guild compliance.
Review and coordinate multiple rounds of main and end titles until final approval.
Seek innovative solutions to guild and contractual credit restrictions.
Build and update forms and templates to improve team efficiency.
Advise and educate partners on best practices, precedents, and guild/union requirements.
Coordinate with internal departments (Post Production, Legal Affairs, Creative, Business Affairs, Clearances, Music Legal, etc.) and external stakeholders (production and post crew, producers) regarding screen credits.
Track all necessary credit revisions from internal departments and external partners.
Create a comprehensive “check-K” document to track inconsistencies between distributed screen credits and contractual items.
File preliminary documents such as the WGA Notice of Tentative Writing Credits.
Wrangle and review script submissions and confirm script cover sheets.
Liaise with guilds, provide information for arbitrations, and handle protests.
Obtain all necessary waivers from DGA, WGA, SAG, Editors Guild, DGC, etc.
Vet all titles on final cuts and mastering deliverables for studio/streamer compliance before deadlines.
Apply Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) credit standards to SPR movies not produced by SPE.
Supervise and direct Coordinators, including setting up task schedules and reviewing policy/process guidelines.
Prepare and circulate forms for Academy Award and RAISE submissions.
Seek internal approval on draft forms from senior executives.
Submit internally approved forms to producers for feedback and approval.
Maintain and advise senior executives of ongoing deadlines for submissions.
Submit forms and respond to queries from the Academy.
Advise Crunchyroll and SPWA staff regarding Academy precedence and practice.
Review submission information for Golden Globes, BAFTA, etc.
Head up meetings on RAISE with D&I, Privacy, Legal Affairs and Marketing.
Review one-sheets, start-of-production press releases, and press kit notes.
Collaborate with department colleagues and Marketing Contract Compliance on Marketing and Advertising Summaries.
Create and administer paid ad items.