MAKERS: A Yearlong Film Viewing Balancing Act

1. Allen Hughes

Albert and Allen Hughes began making movies at age 12, but their formal film education began their freshman year of high school when Allen took a TV production class. They soon made a short film entitled How To Be A Burglar and people began to take notice. Their next work, Uncensored videos, was ...

02013.05.04: watched Broken City

2. Kazik Radwanski

Director | Anne at 13,000 Feet.

Kazik Radwanski is known for Anne at 13,000 Ft. (2019), Princess Margaret Blvd. (2008) and Out in That Deep Blue Sea (2009).

3. Sue Bourne

Producer | Jig

Sue Bourne is known for Jig (2011), The Age of Loneliness (2016) and The Mission (1997).

The Jig

4. Olivier Treiner

Writer | L'accordeur

Olivier Treiner is known for The Piano Tuner (2010), Andhadhun (2018) and Crassus (2007).

Short: The Piano Tuner

5. Akiva Schaffer

Writer | Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Akiva Schaffer was born on December 1, 1977 in Berkeley, California, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016), Saturday Night Live (1975) and The Lego Movie (2014). He has been married to Liz Cackowski since 2010. They have two children.

The Watch

6. Kelly Sears

Director | The Lost Season

Kelly Sears is known for The Lost Season (2024), Once It Started It Could Not End Otherwise (2011) and Pattern for Survival (2015).

Short: Once It Started It Could Not End Otherwise

7. Mateo Gil

Writer | Agora

Mateo Gil was born on September 23, 1972 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. He is a writer and director, known for Agora (2009), Open Your Eyes (1997) and The Sea Inside (2004).

Blackthorn

8. Jeff Nichols

Writer | Take Shelter

Jeff Nichols was born on December 7, 1978 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Take Shelter (2011), Mud (2012) and Midnight Special (2016).

Mud

9. Penny Lane

Director | Nuts!

Penny Lane is known for Nuts! (2016), Our Nixon (2013) and Hail Satan? (2019).

Short: The Voyagers. Short: How to Write an Autobiography.

10. Ariana Gerstein

Director | Layette

Ariana Gerstein is known for Layette (2004).

Short: Alice Sees the Light

11. Helen Hunt

Actress | As Good as It Gets

Helen Hunt began studying acting at the age of eight with her father, respected director and acting coach Gordon Hunt. A year later she made her professional debut and afterwards worked steadily in films, theatre and television.

Then She Found Me

12. Eliza Hittman

Director | Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Eliza Hittman was born on January 1, 1979 in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She is a director and producer, known for Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020), Beach Rats (2017) and It Felt Like Love (2013).

Short: Forever's Gonna Start Tonight. It Felt Like Love.

13. Ken Loach

Director | I, Daniel Blake

Unlike virtually all his contemporaries, Ken Loach has never succumbed to the siren call of Hollywood, and it's virtually impossible to imagine his particular brand of British socialist realism translating well to that context.

After studying law at St. Peter's College, Oxford, he branched out into ...

The Angels' Share, Looking for Eric

14. Lorene Scafaria

Producer | Hustlers

Lorene Scafaria was born on May 1, 1978 in Holmdel, New Jersey, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Hustlers (2019), Coherence (2013) and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012).

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

15. Amy Schatz

Producer | Stand Up & Shout: Songs From a Philly High School

Amy Schatz is known for Stand Up & Shout: Songs from a Philly High School (2023), We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest (2020) and Song of Parkland (2019).

An Apology to Elephants

16. Verena Paravel

Director | De humani corporis fabrica

Verena Paravel is known for The Fabric of the Human Body (2022), Leviathan (2012) and Caniba (2017).

Foreign Parts

17. J.P. Sniadecki

Cinematographer | El mar la mar

J.P. Sniadecki is known for El Mar La Mar (2017), Foreign Parts (2010) and The Iron Ministry (2014).

Foreign Parts

18. Peter Weir

Director | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Peter Weir was born on August 21, 1944 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is a director and writer, known for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), The Way Back (2010) and Witness (1985). He has been married to Wendy Stites since 1966. They have two children.

The Way Back

19. Mohammad Gorjestani

Director | Exit 12

Mohammad Gorjestani is an Iranian-American Filmmaker based in San Francisco, CA. In 2013, he was named as one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film for his ITVS commissioned film, REFUGE. Starring Nikohl Boosheri, REFUGE screened at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival and was an ...

Short: Refuge (2X).

20. Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Producer | Deux jours, une nuit

After studying drama in the arts institute, Jean Pierre Dardenne and his brother Luc made some videos about the rough life in blue-collar small towns in the Wallonie. After their meeting with filmmaker Armad Gatti and cinematographer Ned Burgess, they decided to enter in the movie business.

In 1978 ...

The Kid with a Bike

21. Luc Dardenne

Producer | Deux jours, une nuit

Luc Dardenne was born on March 10, 1954 in Awirs, Wallonia, Belgium. He is a producer and director, known for Two Days, One Night (2014), The Kid with a Bike (2011) and The Child (2005).

The Kid with a Bike

22. Ursula Meier

Director | La ligne

Ursula Meier was born on June 24, 1971 in Besançon, Doubs, France. She is a director and writer, known for The Line (2022), Home (2008) and Sister (2012).

Short: Sleepless. Feature: Home

23. Kelly Reichardt

Director | Wendy and Lucy

Kelly Reichardt was born and raised in Miami-Dade Country, Florida, to a family of police officers. She had an interest in photography from a very young age. She started by using her father's camera, which he used for photographing crime scenes. She went to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in ...

Meek's Cutoff. Wendy and Lucy. Old Joy.

24. Christoph Schlingensief

Director | Menu total

Christoph Schlingensief was born on October 24, 1960 in Oberhausen, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Menu total (1986), Egomania: Island Without Hope (1986) and 100 Jahre Adolf Hitler - Die letzte Stunde im Führerbunker (1989). He was married to Aino Laberenz. He died on August...

Short: Mein 1. Film (1968)

25. Luke Randall

Animation_department | Reach

Luke Randall is an Australian writer, director and animator based in Los Angeles, California. His short films have won numerous film festival awards and struck a chord with audiences online.

In addition he was nominated for Australia's highest honor in filmmaking an AFI award and has created ...

Short: Reach

26. Aideen O'Sullivan

Producer | Bye Bye Now

Aideen O'Sullivan is known for Bye Bye Now (2009), Katie (2018) and When Ali Came to Ireland (2012).

Short: Bye Bye Now

27. Ross Whitaker

Director | Katie

Ross Whitaker is known for Katie (2018), Bye Bye Now (2009) and Unbreakable (2014).

Short: Bye Bye Now

28. J.J. Abrams

Producer | Lost

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams was born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles, the son of TV producer parents. At 15, he wrote the music for Don Dohler's Nightbeast (1982). In his senior year of college, he and Jill Mazursky teamed up to write a feature film, which became Taking Care of Business (1990)....

Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Trek (2009). Mission Impossible III

29. Guy Thys

Director | Tanghi argentini

Guy Thys is known for Tanghi argentini (2006), The 2007 Academy Award Nominated Short Films: Live Action (2008) and Spoed (2000).

Short: Tanghi Argentini

30. Claire Denis

Director | High Life

The films of Claire Denis frequently explore the fragile connections between people and the ways in which the most seemingly inconsequential relationship can have life-changing effects. At the heart of Denis' cinema is a fascination with the delights and difficulties of belonging and otherness, the...

35 Shots of Rum

31. Linda Goldstein Knowlton

Producer | We Are the Radical Monarchs

Linda Goldstein Knowlton is known for We Are the Radical Monarchs (2019), Somewhere Between (2011) and Whale Rider (2002).

Somewhere Between

32. Christina Choe

Director | Nancy

Christina Choe is an American filmmaker whose 2011 short film, I am John Wayne, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Slamdance Film Festival and screened at dozens of festivals around the world. Choe's documentary series Welcome to the DPRK, a personal portrait of North Korea, was recently acquired and ...

Short: The Queen

33. Sarah Polley

Actress | My Life Without Me

Sarah Polley is an actress and director renowned in her native Canada for her political activism. Blessed with an extremely expressive face that enables directors to minimize dialog due to her uncanny ability to suggest a character's thoughts, Polley has become a favorite of critics for her ...

Take This Waltz. Stories We Tell.

34. Julia Pott

Writer | Belly

Julia Pott is known for Belly (2011), Summer Camp Island (2016) and World of Tomorrow (2015).

Short: The Event once online and once at IU Cinema

35. Tina Gordon

Writer | Praise This

Tina Gordon is known for Praise This (2023), What Men Want (2019) and ATL (2006).

Peeples

36. Jamie Stuart

Director | A Motion Selfie

Jamie Stuart is known for A Motion Selfie (2018) and Idiot with a Tripod (2010).

Short: Idiot with a Tripod

37. Phie Ambo

Director | Så meget godt i vente

Phie Ambo (born 1973) was trained at the National Film School of Denmark, graduating as a documentary film director in 2003. Famous for her feature length documentary films true to the tradition of poetic, personal and cinematic language, Ambo deals with essential topics such as family relations, ...

Gambler, Free the Mind

38. Samuel Tourneux

Director | Même les pigeons vont au paradis

Samuel Tourneux is known for Even Pigeons Go to Heaven (2007), Around the World in 80 Days (2021) and The 2007 Academy Award Nominated Short Films: Animation (2008).

Short: Even Pigeons Go to Heaven

39. Lynne Ramsay

Director | You Were Never Really Here

Lynne Ramsay was born on December 5, 1969 in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. She is a director and writer, known for You Were Never Really Here (2017), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) and Ratcatcher (1999). She was previously married to Rory Stewart Kinnear.

Short: Swimmer

40. Maria Demopoulos

Director | The Source Family

Maria Demopoulos is known for The Source Family (2012) and Great Directors (2009).

The Source Family

41. Jodi Wille

Director | The Source Family

Jodi Wille is known for The Source Family (2012), Welcome Space Brothers (2023) and Goodbye Lover (1998). She was previously married to Adam Parfrey.

The Source Family

42. Hilary Brougher

Director | Stephanie Daley

Hilary Brougher is known for Stephanie Daley (2006), South Mountain (2019) and Innocence (2013).

Stephanie Daley

43. Alex Stapleton

Producer | Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel

Alex Stapleton is known for Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011), The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) and Shut Up and Dribble (2018).

Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel

44. Kat Candler

Director | Hellion

Kat Candler was born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She is a producer and director, known for Hellion (2014), Queen Sugar (2016) and Sorry for Your Loss (2018).

Short: Love Bug

45. Mira Nair

Director | Salaam Bombay!

Accomplished Film Director/Writer/Producer Mira Nair was born in India and educated at Delhi University and at Harvard. She began her film career as an actor and then turned to directing award-winning documentaries, including So Far From India and India Cabaret. Her debut feature film, Salaam ...

The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Amelia.

46. Icíar Bollaín

Director | Te doy mis ojos

Born in Madrid, Iciar Bollain has worked as an actress in films such El Sur (1983), directed by Víctor Erice; Sublet (1991) directed by Chus Gutiérrez, Malaventura (1988) directed by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón; El Mejor de los Tiempos (1990) and Un Paraguas para Tres (1992) directed by Felipe Vega, ...

Even the Rain

47. Jon Shenk

Camera_department | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Jon Shenk is known for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), Lost Boys of Sudan (2003) and The Island President (2011).

48. Jay Roach

Director | Trumbo

Jay Roach was born on June 14, 1957 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Trumbo (2015), Bombshell (2019) and Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997). He has been married to Susanna Hoffs since April 17, 1993. They have two children.

The Campaign

49. Justin Lin

Producer | Better Luck Tomorrow

Justin Lin is a Taiwanese-American film director whose films have grossed $2 billion worldwide. He is best known for his work on Better Luck Tomorrow, The Fast and the Furious 3-6 and Star Trek Beyond. He is also known for his work on television shows like Community and the second season of True ...

Fast and Furious 6

50. Andrea Dorfman

Director | Parsley Days

Andrea Dorfman was born on October 29, 1968 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is a director and writer, known for Parsley Days (2000), There's a Flower in My Pedal (2004) and Flawed (2009).

Short: There's a Flower in My Pedal, Tilting Quilting

51. Tao Ruspoli

Director | Fix

Italian American documentary filmmaker, photographer and flamenco guitar player. Born in Thailand and raised in Rome and Los Angeles. Son of Dado Ruspoli and Debra Berger. B.A. in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. Founder of The Los Angeles Filmmakers' Cooperative (LAFCO). ...

Short: Stone Fridge, Short: Burning Man 2008

52. Andrew Niccol

Writer | GATTACA

New Zealand-born screenwriter-director Andrew Niccol began his career in London, successfully directing TV commercials before moving to Los Angeles in order to make films "longer than 60 seconds." He interested high-powered producer Scott Rudin in his The Truman Show (1998) script, but Rudin was not...

Lord of War

53. Alix Lambert

Director | The Mark of Cain

Alix Lambert's feature length documentary The Mark of Cain was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, received an honorable mention from the French Association of Journalism, and aired on Nightline. She went on to produce additional segments of Nightline as well as 7 segments for the PBS series...

Short: Shearwater: You As You Were. Bayou Blue. Short: Crime: Joe Loyola: The Beirut Bandit

54. John Akomfrah

Director | The Nine Muses

Ghana born John Akomfrah is known for his experimental documentaries and video installations on the subjects of race, migration, and slavery in the encounters between European colonisers and African subjects.In the 1980s working in London, he helped found the Black Audio Film Collective and later ...

The Nine Muses

55. David McMahon

Producer | Skanks

David McMahon is known for Skanks (2014), Bayou Blue (2011) and Skanks in a One Horse Town Live! (2014).

Bayou Blue

56. William Vega

Director | La sirga

William Vega is known for The Towrope (2012), Sal (2018) and Epifanía (2016).

Short: Simiente. Feature: The Towrope || La Sirga

57. Olivier Assayas

Writer | Personal Shopper

Olivier Assayas is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is best know for his films Demonlover (2002), Something in the Air (2012), Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) and Personal Shopper (2016).

Assayas is the son of French director/screenwriter Raymond Assayas, alias Jacques Rémy.

His ...

Something in the Air

58. Seung-jun Yi

Director | Bujaeui gieok

Seung-jun Yi is known for Bujaeui gieok (2018), Planet of Snail (2011) and Geurimjakkot (2019).

Planet of Snail

59. Pepita Ferrari

Director | The Unsexing of Emma Edmonds

Pepita Ferrari was a director and writer, known for The Unsexing of Emma Edmonds (2004), Canticum Canticorum (2006) and The Petticoat Expeditions (1997). She died on December 30, 2018 in Lac Brome, Québec, Canada.

Capturing Reality & Short: Source

60. Jasmila Zbanic

Writer | Quo vadis, Aida?

Jasmila Zbanic was born on December 19, 1974 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. She is a writer and director, known for Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020), Grbavica (2006) and Na putu (2010). She is married to Damir Ibrahimovic. They have one child.

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams

61. Casey Donahue

Director | Disconnected

Casey Donahue is known for Disconnected (2015), Our RoboCop Remake (2014) and Then the Letting Go (2017).

Short: A Short Story About Hands

62. Julie Aguttes

Director | Trois soeurs

Julie Aguttes is known for Trois soeurs (2014), Un long cri mêlé à celui du vent (2010) and Disengagement (2007).

Short: A Long Cry Along with the Wind's

63. Caroline Strubbe

Director | Lost Persons Area

Caroline Strubbe is known for Lost Persons Area (2009), I'm the Same, I'm an Other (2013) and Une mouche dans la salade (1988).

Lost Persons Area

64. Khavn

Director | Mondomanila: Kung paano ko inayos ang buhok ko matapos ang mahaba-haba ring paglalakbay

Khavn was born on December 23, 1973 in the Philippines. He is a director and writer, known for Mondomanila, or: How I Fixed My Hair After a Rather Long Journey (2012), Balangiga: Howling Wilderness (2017) and EDSA XXX: Nothing Ever Changes in the Ever-Changing Republic of Ek-Ek-Ek (2014).

Short: Can and Slipper

65. Scott Willis

Producer | The Woodmans

Scott Willis is known for The Woodmans (2010), Independent Lens (1999) and Nova (1974).

The Woodmans

66. Bruce Beresford

Director | Driving Miss Daisy

Bruce Beresford was born in Australia and graduated from Sydney University in 1962. He served as Film Officer for the British Film Institute Production Board from 1966-1971 and as a Film Advisor to the Arts Council of Great Britain. Beresford has also directed several operas including Girl Of The ...

Mao's Last Dancer. The Contract.

67. Tereza Reichová

Director | Manuál na výrobu teroristy

Tereza Reichová is known for Manual on How to Create a Terrorist (2010), Circle: Portrait of a Demonstration (2009) and Epidemie svobody (2017).

Short: Experiences for Sale // ZÁŽITKY NA PRODEJ

68. Vincent Ward

Director | The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

Vincent Ward has produced, executive produced and/or written and directed feature films including What Dreams May Come (Which won an Oscar and was nominated for 2 Academy Awards), The River Queen (Won best film in Shanghai) and The Last Samurai (4 Academy Award nominations and winner of Best ...

Rain of the Children

69. Vanessa Gould

Camera_department | Between the Folds

Vanessa Gould was born on January 30, 1974 in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA. She is a director and producer, known for Between the Folds (2008), Obit. (2016) and Independent Lens (1999).

Between the Folds

70. Shane Carruth

Composer | Upstream Color

Writer-director Shane Carruth, a former software engineer, burst onto the independent movie scene with his extremely low-budget science-fiction film Primer (2004) in 2004. Carruth also played one of the two leads in the film and composed its music. "Primer" won the Grand Jury Prize and the Alfred P...

Upstream Color

71. Aurélie Bonamy

Director | Logoden

Aurélie Bonamy is known for Logoden (2012) and La Séquence du Filmeur (2018).

Short: Logoden

72. Jean Fraysse

Director | Logoden

Jean Fraysse is known for Logoden (2012).

Short: Logoden

73. Alice Winocour

Writer | Mustang

Alice Winocour was born on January 13, 1976 in Paris, France. She is a writer and director, known for Mustang (2015), Proxima (2019) and Maryland (2015).

Augustine

74. Joanna Priestley

Animation_department | North of Blue

Joanna Priestley has directed, animated and produced 32 films, including the abstract animated feature, North of Blue, and Clam Bake, an iOS app. She has been called "The queen of independent animation!" by Justin Johnson, British Film Institute. Her work maintains a high level of porosity between ...

Short: Kali Yuga

75. Lone Scherfig

Director | An Education

Writer/director Lone Scherfig graduated from The National Film School of Denmark in 1984. Her first feature film, THE BIRTHDAY TRIP (1990), was selected for Panorama in Berlin, the New Directors section at MOMA in New York and won the Grand Jury Prix in Rouen. Her next film, ON OUR OWN (1998), ...

One Day

76. Dori Berinstein

Producer | Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love

Dori is a five-time Tony-winning Broadway producer, Olivier winner and an Emmy-award-winning director, producer and writer of film and television. Dori is a Producer on Ryan Murphy's Netflix adaptation of Dori's Broadway Musical "The Prom". Dori's recent work as a documentary filmmaker include "The...

Carol Channing Larger Than Life. Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love.

77. Jennifer Siebel Newsom

Producer | Fair Play

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the First Partner of California, is a filmmaker, advocate, and thought leader. After graduating with honors from Stanford University and Stanford's Graduate School of Business, she wrote, directed, and produced the 2011 award-winning documentary Miss Representation (2011). ...

Miss Representation

78. András Szirtes

Director | Lenz

András Szirtes was born on July 6, 1951 in Budapest, Hungary. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Lenz (1987), Forradalom után (1990) and Napló No. 1-8 (1984). He died on September 28, 2023 in Hungary.

Short: Birds || Madarak

79. Alexandra Gojdicová

Script_department | Stiff

Alexandra Gojdicová is known for Stiff (2008), Alda (2010) and Race to the Bottom (2011).

7 Wonders of Bratislava

80. Gyula Nemes

Director | Zero

Gyula Nemes was born in 1974 in Vác, Hungary. He is a director and writer, known for Zero (2015), Letünt világ (2008) and Negatív magyar filmtörténet (2010).

Short: Fugue

81. Kore-eda Hirokazu

Director | Manbiki kazoku

Born in Tokyo in 1962. Originally intended to be a novelist, but after graduating from Waseda University in 1987 went on to become an assistant director at T.V. Man Union. Snuck off set to film Mou hitotsu no kyouiku - Ina shogakkou haru gumi no kiroku (1991). His first feature, Maborosi (1995), ...

Nobody Knows. Still Walking.

82. Agnès Varda

Director | Cléo de 5 à 7

Agnès Varda was born on May 30, 1928 in Ixelles, Belgium. She was a director and writer, known for Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), Vagabond (1985) and Faces Places (2017). She was married to Jacques Demy. She died on March 29, 2019 in Paris, France.

The Beaches of Agnes. Short: Le Lion Volatil.

83. Kirby Dick

Director | On the Record

Kirby Dick is a two time Emmy-award winning and two-time Academy award-nominated documentary film director. His most recent film, The Hunting Ground (2015), a monumental exposé about sexual assault on college campuses, premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, was released by Radius/The ...

Outrage

84. Steven Briand

Director | Shunpo

Steven Briand is known for Shunpo (2012), Chimera (2016) and Supa Supa (2016).

Short: Shunpo. Short: Frictions.

85. Katie Dellamaggiore

Producer | Brooklyn Castle

Katie Dellamaggiore is known for Brooklyn Castle (2012), P.O.V. (1988) and The Zoo (2017).

Brooklyn Castle

86. Sergey Loznitsa

Director | Donbass

Sergei Loznitsa, Ukrainian film maker, was born on September, 5th 1964 in Baranovichi, USSR. He grew up in Kiev, and in 1987 graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic with a degree in Applied Mathematics. In 1987-1991 Sergei worked as a scientist at the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics, specializing in ...

Short: Letter || Pismo

87. John Gianvito

Director | Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind

John Gianvito is known for Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (2007), The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein (2001) and Her Socialist Smile (2020).

Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind

88. Noah Baumbach

Writer | The Squid and the Whale

Born in Brooklyn in 1969 Noah Baumbach is the son of two film critics, Georgia Brown and Jonathan Baumbach (also a writer). His studies at Vassar College were the subject of his first film (made as he was 26 years old), Kicking and Screaming (1995). His second major picture, made ten years later, ...

Frances Ha

89. Richard Linklater

Director | Waking Life

Self-taught writer-director Richard Stuart Linklater was born in Houston, Texas, to Diane Margaret (Krieger), who taught at a university, and Charles W. Linklater III. Richard was among the first and most successful talents to emerge during the American independent film renaissance of the 1990s. ...

Before Midnight

90. Agnès Merlet

Director | Le fils du requin

Agnès Merlet was born on January 4, 1959. She is a director and writer, known for The Son of the Shark (1993), Artemisia (1997) and Poussière d'étoiles (1986).

Dorothy Mills

91. Juan Solanas

Cinematographer | L'homme sans tête

Born in Buenos Aires on November 4th 1966, Juan Diego Solanas is the son of one of Argentina's most important directors, Fernando E. Solanas. In 1977, he followed his father to France when the latter fled his country where dictatorship was rife. There, he studied art history and gave free rein to ...

The Man Without a Head

92. Stanley Kubrick

Director | 2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Sadie Gertrude (Perveler) and Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a physician. His family were Jewish immigrants (from Austria, Romania, and Russia). Stanley was considered intelligent, despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would ...

Spartacus (1960)

93. Angelina Maccarone

Writer | Fremde Haut

Angelina Maccarone was born on August 21, 1965 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is a writer and director, known for Unveiled (2005), Alles wird gut (1998) and Verfolgt (2006).

Vivere. The Look.

94. Mark Cousins

Director | The First Movie

Mark Cousins was born on May 3, 1965 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. He is a director and writer, known for The First Movie (2009), The Eyes of Orson Welles (2018) and What Is This Film Called Love? (2012).

The Story of Film: An Odyssey Episode 11, Episode 12, 13

95. Cathy Lee Crane

Director | The Manhattan Front

Cathy Lee Crane has been making narrative/documentary hybrid films on 16mm since 1994. She received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013 for her lyrical re-combinations of archival and staged material. Her first feature Pasolini's Last Words (2012) was supported through grants from the New York State ...

Short: For You: Experiment Underwater

96. Graham Hawkes

Actor | For Your Eyes Only

Graham Hawkes was born on December 23, 1947. He is an actor, known for For Your Eyes Only (1981), Naked Science (2004) and World's Top 5 (2012).

Short: DeepFlight Submersible - Searching for Whale Song (I think this is the same Graham Hawkes who made this GoPro short... but I'm winging it a bit). Credited with Lee Behel, who does not appear to be listed in IMDb.

97. Sue Brooks

Director | Japanese Story

Sue Brooks was born on May 1, 1953 in Pyramid Hill, Victoria, Australia. She is a director and producer, known for Japanese Story (2003), Looking for Grace (2015) and An Ordinary Woman (1988).

Japanese Story

98. Angelina Jolie

Actress | Maleficent

Angelina Jolie is an Academy Award-winning actress who rose to fame after her role in Girl, Interrupted (1999), playing the title role in the "Lara Croft" blockbuster movies, as well as Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), Salt (2010) and Maleficent (2014). Off-screen, Jolie has become ...

In the Land of Blood and Honey

99. Ava DuVernay

Writer | Queen Sugar

A director, producer, writer, marketer and film distributor, Ava DuVernay made her feature film debut with the documentary This is the Life (2008), a history on hip hop movement that flourished in Los Angeles in the 1990's. This was followed by series of television music documentaries which ...

Short: The Door. PLUS Ava's coming to Indiana University Cinema in September so I'll get to see a lot more of her films with her present to talk with us about them. I'll share more about that exciting event then.

Short: Say Yes

Short: My Mic Sounds Nice: The Truth About Women in Hip Hop

This is the Life

Venus Vs.

Middle of Nowhere

I Will Follow

100. Ann Hui

Director | Nu ren si shi

Born in China in 1947, Ann Hui moved to Hong Kong when she was still in her youth. After graduating in English and Comparative Literature from Hong Kong University, she spent two years at the London Film School. Returning to Hong Kong, she worked as an assistant to director King Hu before joining ...

A Simple Life. Short: My Way (Beautiful 2012).