Generally a director is a person or one of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a government agency, company, corporation, group or project.
List of specific terms known commonly as "director":
Other director titles are : executive-director, director-general, associate-director, assistant-director, vice-director, managing director.
A directorate is the agency of a director.
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In practice the director will delegate many of these responsibilities to other members of his or her film crew.
Directors often work closely with filmproducers, who are usually responsible for the non-artistic elements of the film, such as financing, contract negotiation and marketing.
It is the director's sense of the dramatic along with the creative visualization of the script that transforms a screenplay into a well-made motion picture.