DEBUTS 2005
by juansinmiedopozu | created - 15 Jul 2021 | updated - 15 Jul 2021 | Public
1. Judd Apatow
Producer | Girls
Judd Apatow is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and comedian. He directed The 40-Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, This is 40, Funny People, Trainwreck and The King of Staten Island. He also developed the television shows Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Girls, Love and Crashing. He is ...
2. Kyu-dong Min
Director | Nae anaeui modeun geot
Kyu-dong Min was born on September 12, 1970 in Seoul, Korea. He is a director and writer, known for All About My Wife (2012), Memento Mori (1999) and Horror Stories 2 (2013). He has been married to Ji-Yeong Hong since 2000. They have two children.
3. Michael Showalter
Writer | Wet Hot American Summer
Michael Showalter is a director, writer, and producer who most recently directed the 2017 hit The Big Sick. Previously he directed and co-wrote the 2016 film Hello, My Name Is Doris starring Sally Field. Michael's first film was the The Baxter (2005) starring Michelle Williams and Justin Theroux. ...
4. Rian Johnson
Producer | Knives Out
Rian Johnson was born in Maryland and at a young age his family moved to San Clemente, California, where he was raised. After graduating from high school, he went on to attend the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. His first feature film, Brick (2005), was released in 2005 ...
5. Arie Posin
Director | Over My Dead Body
Arie Posin is known for Over My Dead Body (2002), The Chumscrubber (2005) and The Face of Love (2013).
6. Francis Lawrence
Director | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Francis Lawrence is an American filmmaker. He started directing over sixty music videos before he directed the cult classic Keanu Reeves film Constantine, I Am Legend and Water for Elephants. He also directed The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2, and Red ...
7. Hans Canosa
Producer | The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Hans Canosa is known for The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2022), Conversations with Other Women (2005) and Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (2010).
8. John Gatins
Writer | Flight
John Gatins was born on April 16, 1968 in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Flight (2012), Real Steel (2011) and Norbit (2007).
9. Liev Schreiber
Actor | Spotlight
Liev (pronounced Lee-ev) Schreiber was born in San Francisco. His mother, Heather (Milgram), is a painter, and his father, Tell Schreiber (Tell Carroll Schreiber III), is a theatrical actor who had a small role in The Keeper (1976). His mother is from a working-class Jewish family from Poland and ...
10. David Slade
Director | Hard Candy
David Slade was born on September 26, 1969 in the UK. He is a director and producer, known for Hard Candy (2005), The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) and 30 Days of Night (2007).
11. David Ayer
Producer | End of Watch
David Ayer is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. David Ayer was born in Champaign, Illinois and grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota, and Bethesda, Maryland, where he was kicked out of his house by his parents as a teenager. Ayer then lived with his cousin in Los Angeles, ...
12. Chris Terrio
Writer | Argo
Chris Terrio is an American filmmaker and screenwriter who had written the Ben Affleck film Argo and the Zack Snyder DC Extended Universe films Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League before Joss Whedon rewrote the script during re-shoots when Snyder stepped down as director. ...
13. Shane Black
Actor | Predator
Considered one of the pioneer screenwriters of the action genre, Black made his mark with his Lethal Weapon (1987) screenplay. He also collaborated on the story of the sequel, Lethal Weapon 2 (1989). Each successive script he turned in had a higher price attached it, from The Last Boy Scout (1991) ...
14. Mark Levin
Writer | The Adam Project
Mark Levin is known for The Adam Project (2022), Big Mouth (2017) and Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008). He is married to Jennifer Flackett. They have two children.
15. Hunter Richards
Writer | London
Hunter Richards sold his first original screenplay "Jack and Jill" (not the Sandler film) to Paramount Studios in a seven-figure deal. He worked as a "script doctor" for years before writing and directing his own material.
Hunter wrote and directed his first feature film "London" for Sony Studios, ...
16. Yoon-Chul Jung
Director | Maraton
Yoon-Chul Jung is known for Marathon (2005), A Man Who Was Superman (2008) and Warriors of the Dawn (2017).
17. Miranda July
Writer | Me and You and Everyone We Know
Filmmaker Magazine rated her #1 in their "25 New Faces of Indie Film" in 2004!
She is a performance artist and published short story writer. Since becoming a filmmaker, her debut feature, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) has won several film awards.
Daughter of Lindy Hough and Richard ...
18. Michael Kang
Director | The Motel
Michael Kang is a Korean American filmmaker based in New York. He was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island but has been in New York since attending New York University Tisch School of the Arts' Dramatic Writing Program where he was a Founder's Day Honors Scholar. His feature film directorial...
19. Marcos Siega
Producer | Dexter: New Blood
Marcos Siega was born on June 8, 1969 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Dexter: New Blood (2021), You (2018) and The Flight Attendant (2020).
20. Joe Wright
Director | Pride & Prejudice
Joe Wright is an English film director. He is best known for Pride & Prejudice (2005), Atonement (2007), Anna Karenina (2012), and Darkest Hour (2017).
Wright always had an interest in the arts, especially painting. He would also make films on his Super 8 camera as well as spend time in the evenings...
21. Pang Eun-jin
Director | Orora gongju
Pang Eun-jin was born on August 5, 1965 in Seoul, Korea. She is an actress and director, known for Princess Aurora (2005), 301, 302 (1995) and Address Unknown (2001).
22. Han Jae-rim
Director | Yeonae-ui mokjeok
Han Jae Rim was born on 14 July 1975, he was graduated from Seoul Institute of the Arts in 1998. He begins his career as an assistant director and script editor. He was the runner-up for Best Screenplay at the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) Screenplay Contest in 2003, he began as a director in 2005 ...
23. Yi-kwan Kang
Director | Beom-joe-so-nyeon
Yi-kwan Kang is known for Juvenile Offender (2012), Sa-kwa (2005) and Let Us Meet Now (2019).
24. Joss Whedon
Producer | Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Joss Whedon is the middle of five brothers - his younger brothers are Jed Whedon and Zack Whedon. Both his father, Tom Whedon and his grandfather, John Whedon were successful television writers. Joss' mother, Lee Stearns, was a history teacher and she also wrote novels as Lee Whedon. Whedon was ...
25. Frank Miller
Writer | Sin City
Frank Miller was born in Olney, Maryland, to a nurse mother and a carpenter and electrician father, and was raised in Montpelier, Vermont. He is of Irish descent. Miller was a big comics writer/artist in the '70s and '80s. He wrote and penciled the Marvel series "Daredevil" for a long time. His ...
26. Ali Selim
Director | Sweet Land
Ali Selim was born in Minneapolis and attended St. Thomas College in St. Paul. After working briefly in feature film production, he won an assignment from his alma mater to direct a recruiting film for which he earned an award at the New York Film Festival. From there, Selim entered the commercial ...
27. Jason Reitman
Producer | Up in the Air
Jason Reitman is a Canadian filmmaker and producer who notably directed Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Juno, Thank You for Smoking, Up in the Air, Young Adult and Tully. He produced Chloe and Jennifer's Body, two films that advanced Amanda Seyfried's career for adult oriented roles. He is the son of Ivan...
28. Tommy Lee Jones
Actor | The Fugitive
Tommy Lee Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Lucille Marie (Scott), a police officer and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, who worked on oil fields. Tommy himself worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. He attended St. Mark's School of Texas, a prestigious prep school ...
29. Mike Mills
Director | Beginners
Mike Mills was born in 1966, Berkeley, California. He graduated from Cooper Union, 1989.
He works as a filmmaker, graphic designer and artist. As a filmmaker, Mike has completed a number of music videos, commercials, short films, documentaries, and the feature film Thumbsucker (2005). Architecture ...
30. Duncan Tucker
Director | Transamerica
Duncan Tucker is known for Transamerica (2005), The Mountain King (2000) and Song by Song (2012).
31. Yoon Jong-bin
Director | Gongjak
Yoon Jong-bin was born on December 20, 1979. He is a director and writer, known for The Spy Gone North (2018), Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (2012) and The Unforgiven (2005).
32. Rob McKittrick
Writer | Waiting...
Rob McKittrick was born in 1973. He is a writer and director, known for Waiting... (2005), Tag (2018) and Jon Davis gets a Sex Robot (2013).
33. Kwang-Hyun Park
Director | Welkkeom tu Dongmakgol
Park, born in 1969, studied visual design at Hongik University before working as a director of TV commercials. Many people remember the tagline "Don't bet your life," in the commercial for a popular fast-food chain. Many also remember an impressive statement made by actor Choi Min-shik in a ...
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