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Daily progress report

A daily progress report is a filmmaking report that is produced at the end of each shooting day by the First Assistant Director (1AD) and passed to the Production Manager for approval.

Henry J. Bronchtein

Further credits as a first assistant director consist of A Perfect Murder, Addicted to Love, Weekend at Bernie's, It Could Happen to You, Guarding Tess, Striptease, Rookie of the Year, and Eddie and the Cruisers.


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Jack Chow

Chow held a number of global public health offices including positions as the first Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, Special Representative of the U.S. Secretary of State on Global HIV/AIDS and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Health and Science.

Patrick Rea

Rea was the first assistant director on the movie Bunker Hill, directed by Kevin Willmott.

Suzanne Schiffman

Pleure pas la bouche pleine (1973) (writer, first assistant director)- directed by Pascal Thomas

Tony Leech

In 1999, Leech acted in 3 feature films, Pit of Vipers, Holy Hollywood (along with Mickey Rooney and Camille Keaton) and Chillicothe where he also served as first assistant director.