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Alfonso Arau has had a long and fruitful career both in front of and behind the camera and is one of the most prominent Latino film-makers in Hollywood. He was a drama disciple of Seki Sano--a Japanese teacher, classmate of Lee Strasberg with Konstantin Stanislavski in Russia--and traveled the world from 1964 to 1968 with his one-man show, "Pantomime Happy Madness", after studying with Etienne Decroux and Jacques Lecoq in Paris.
A renowned writer-producer-director-actor in theater and film for more than twenty years, in 1969 he directed his first feature film, El águila descalza (1971), in which he also starred. He has directed many films in Mexico, among them Inspector Calzonzin (1974) and Mojado Power (1981). He has received six Arieles--the Mexican equivalent of the Oscar--and numerous international film awards.
Arau has acted in a number of Mexican and Hollywood films, including The Wild Bunch (1969), El Topo (1970), Mojado Power (1981), Used Cars (1980), Romancing the Stone (1984), Three Amigos! (1986) and Committed (2000). In addition to Like Water for Chocolate (1992), his directing credits include A Walk in the Clouds (1995) with Keanu Reeves and Picking Up the Pieces (2000) with Woody Allen. For television he has done The Magnificent Ambersons (2002), based on the script of Orson Welles' film version (The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)) and the novel by Booth Tarkington.- Director
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Gariné Torossian is known for Babies on the Sun (2002), Stone Time Touch (2007) and Sparklehorse (2000).- Director
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Azian Nurudin is known for Malaysian Series 1-6 (1987), Nancy's Nightmare (1988) and Wicked Radiance (1992).- Director
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Mona Hatoum was born in 1952 in Beirut, Lebanon. She is a director, known for Measures of Distance (1988), Bodysong (2003) and Roadworks (1985).- Director
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Trinh T. Minh-ha was born in 1952 in Hanoi, Vietnam. She is a director and writer, known for What About China? (2022), Shoot for the Contents (1991) and Night Passage (2004).- Director
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Edin Velez is known for State of Rest and Motion (2017), A Certain Foolish Consistency (2007) and Keep Your Splendid Silent Sun (2020).- Director
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Ken Feingold is known for Un chien délicieux (1991).- Director
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Philip Hoffman was born in 1955 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. He is a director and cinematographer, known for All Fall Down (2009), Aged (2014) and Technilogic Ordering (1994).- Director
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Born in 1951 on the Hopi reservation of Arizona, Victor Masayevsa Jr.is an award winning native American filmmaker and photographer.He studied at the Horace Mann school in New York City, Princeton University in New Jersey (English) and the University of Arizona in Tucson (graduate work in English and Photography.) Living in the village of Hotevilla, Arizona, he has directed students in the use of Hopi language and culture as well as how to make their videos and in his own art has combined photography with animation and other experimental aspects.- Art Department
Philip Mallory Jones is known for Waiting to Exhale (1995).