Directors to study
by akishaha | created - 02 Dec 2011 | updated - 12 Feb 2016 | Public
1. Arun Khopkar
Director | Haathi Ka Anda
Arun Khopkar was born on November 5, 1945 in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India. He is a director and actor, known for Haathi Ka Anda (2002), Shaque (1976) and Computer-aided Design (1976).
2. Shaji N. Karun
Director | Piravi
Shaji Neelakantan Karun was born on new years day 1950 as the eldest son of Mr. N. Karunakaran and Mrs. Chandramati in Kollam district of the state of Kerala, India. The family moved to Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of the state in 1963. He did his schooling in Palkkulangara H.S., and took a ...
3. Sohrab Shahid Saless
Director | Tabiate bijan
Sohrab Shaheed Salles was born in Tehran in 1944 to a middle-class family and lived in Tehran. Shahid Saless was a storyteller as a child, with a passion for visualizing his narrations. During his teenage years, he showed an imaginative talent, writing and acting in plays with friends. In 1963, ...
Great Iranian Director......
4. Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Producer | Cike Nie Yin Niang
Of the ten films that Hsiao-Hsien Hou directed between 1980 and 1989, seven received best film or best director awards from prestigious international films festivals in Venice, Berlin, Hawaii, and the Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes. In a 1988 worldwide critics' poll, Hou was championed ...
5. Bertrand Tavernier
Director | Un dimanche à la campagne
Bertrand Tavernier was the son of Geneviève (Dumond) and René Tavernier, who was a publicist, writer, and president of the French PEN club. He was a law student that preferred write film criticisms. He also wrote a few books about American movies. Then his first film won a few awards in France and ...
6. Raúl Ruiz
Director | La Telenovela Errante
Chilean director Raúl, or Raoul, Ruiz (1941-2011) was one of the most exciting and innovative filmmakers to emerge from 1960s World Cinema, providing more intellectual fun and artistic experimentation, shot for shot, than any filmmaker since Jean-Luc Godard. A guerrilla who uncompromisingly ...
7. Claude Chabrol
Director | Le beau Serge
Claude Chabrol was born on June 24, 1930 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Le Beau Serge (1958), La Cérémonie (1995) and Story of Women (1988). He was married to Aurore Chabrol, Stéphane Audran and Agnès Goute. He died on September 12, 2010 in Paris, France.
8. Richard Leacock
Cinematographer | Omnibus
Richard Leacock was born on July 18, 1921 in London, England, UK. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Omnibus (1952), Canary Island Bananas (1935) and 1 P.M. (1971). He was married to Eleanor Burke and Valérie Lalonde. He died on March 23, 2011 in Paris, France.
9. Tareque Masud
Writer | Matir Moina
Tareque Masud was born in Nurpur Village of Faridpur District in Bangladesh. At an early age he was sent off to madrassa (Islamic school) by his deeply religious father. He studied in the madrassa system until 1971, when the upheaval brought about by the 9-month Liberation War interrupted his ...
10. Chantal Akerman
Director | Les rendez-vous d'Anna
Chantal Akerman was born on June 6, 1950 in Brussels, Belgium. She was a director and writer, known for The Meetings of Anna (1978), I, You, He, She (1974) and A Couch in New York (1996). She was married to Sonia Wieder-Atherton. She died on October 5, 2015 in Paris, France.
11. Xiaoshuai Wang
Director | Rizhao Chongqing
Wang Xiaoshuai (Director, Writer, Producer)
Wang Xiaoshuai is one of very few masters who remains true to his art in spite of rampant commercialism in the Chinese film market. Evoking the trauma of ordinary Chinese people caught in extraordinary times, his works span different eras, yet consistently...
12. Masahiro Kobayashi
Writer | Haru tono tabi
Masahiro Kobayashi was born on January 6, 1954 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for Haru tono tabi (2010), Japan's Tragedy (2012) and Bashing (2005). He was married to Naoko Kobayashi. He died on August 20, 2022 in Tokyo.
13. Dariush Mehrjui
Director | Gaav
Dariush Mehrjui was born to a middle-class family in Tehran. He showed interest in painting miniatures, music, and playing santoor and piano. He spent a lot of time going to the movies, particularly American films which were un-dubbed and inter-spliced with explanatory title cards that explained ...
14. Youssef Chahine
Director | Iskanderija... lih?
Youssef Chahine (born in Alexandria, Egypt, 1926) started studying in a friars' school, and then turned to Victoria College until the High School Certificate. After one year in the University of Alexandria, he moved to the U.S. and spent two years at the Pasadena Play House, taking courses on film ...
15. Atef El-Tayeb
Director | Leila Sakhina
Atef El-Tayeb was born on December 26, 1947. He was a director and assistant director, known for Leila Sakhina (1995), Gallipoli (1981) and El-Zammar (1985). He died on June 23, 1995.
16. Anand Patwardhan
Director | Pitra, Putra Aur Dharamyuddha
Anand Patwardhan was born on February 18, 1950 in Bombay, State of Bombay, India. He is a director and editor, known for Pitra, Putra Aur Dharamyuddha (1994), Ram Ke Naam (1992) and Jai Bhim Comrade (2011).
A Very fine Indian Documentary maker.....
17. Reha Erdem
Director | Hayat Var
Born in Istanbul, Reha Erdem began his studies in History at Bogazici University in Istanbul. He graduated from Cinema Department of Paris 8 University. He obtained his M.A. in Plastic Arts at the same university. He shot his first feature-length film Oh Moon in 1989 as a French-Turkish ...
His "My Only Sunshine" is the best example to study how to use specific sound for each character perfectly to represent them individually......
One of the Top 50 movies.........
18. Pouran Derakhshandeh
Director | Hiss Dokhtarha Faryad Nemizanand
Pouran Derakhshandeh was born in 1951 in Iran. She is a director and producer, known for Hush! Girls Don't Scream (2013), Under the Smoky Roof (2017) and Little Bird of Happiness (1988).
Iranian Director
19. Ahmad Abdalla
Director | Microphone
Born in Cairo 19 December 1979, Graduated from the Faculty of Music Education, worked as a film editor from 2003 .living in Cairo - Egypt. Heliopolis was his first long feature film which was considered as one of the beginnings of the Egyptian independent cinema new wave. Still occasionally ...
20. Todd Verow
Director | Little Shots of Happiness
Todd Verow was born on November 11, 1966 in Bangor, Maine, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Little Shots of Happiness (1997), Once and Future Queen (2000) and The Trouble with Perpetual Deja-Vu (1999).
21. Jan Svankmajer
Director | Otesánek
After studying at the Institute of Industrial Arts and the Marionette Faculty of the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in the 1950s, Jan Svankmajer started working as a theatre director, chiefly in association with the Theatre of Masks and the Black Theatre. He first experimented with film-making after ...
Self-labeled "surrealist" known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam
22. Joseph Cedar
Writer | Hearat Shulayim
Joseph Cedar was born on August 31, 1968 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Footnote (2011), Our Boys (2019) and Campfire (2004). He is married to Vered Kelner.
Israili Director
23. 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 ...
Belgian Director - Directed 'The Kid with a Bike', 'Lorna's Silence'
24. 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).
Belgian Director - Directed 'The Kid with a Bike', 'Lorna's Silence'
25. Edward Yang
Writer | Yi yi
Born on November 6, 1947 in Shanghai, China, Edward Yang has become one of the most talented international filmmakers of his generation. Along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming-Liang, Yang ranks among the leading artists of the Taiwanese New Wave, and one of the world's most brilliant auteurs. ...
Taiwanese Director - Directed YiYi, A Brighter Summer Day
26. Atom Egoyan
Director | The Sweet Hereafter
Born in Egypt to Armenian parents, he was raised in Western Canada. Both his parents were painters, and he planned to be a playwright, but after making a short film, he became hooked on telling stories visually. Returned to ethnic "homeland" when he filmed Calendar (1993) in Armenia. Won attention ...
27. Brillante Mendoza
Director | Alpha: The Right to Kill
Brillante Mendoza is a Philippine director and producer. He is the first Filipino to receive the Best Director award at Cannes for his film Kinatay in 2009. He is also the only Filipino to receive France's "Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres" (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) in ...
Filipino Director - Directed Kinatay, The Womb
28. Naomi Kawase
Director | An
Naomi Kawase was born on May 30, 1969 in Nara, Japan. She is a director and writer, known for Sweet Bean (2015), Still the Water (2014) and Suzaku (1997). She was previously married to Takenori Sentô.
Japanese Independent Director whose films are mostly influenced on personal experiences in life.
29. Paul Cox
Director | Innocence
Paul Cox was born on April 16, 1940 in Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands. He was a director and writer, known for Innocence (2000), My First Wife (1984) and Man of Flowers (1983). He was married to Juliet Bacskai. He died on June 18, 2016 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Australian Offbeat Director
30. Shôhei Imamura
Director | Kuroi ame
Shohei Imamura's films dig beneath the surface of Japanese society to reveal a wellspring of sensual, often irrational, energy that lies beneath. Along with his colleagues Nagisa Ôshima and Masahiro Shinoda, Imamura began his serious directorial career as a member of the New Wave movement in Japan....
Great Japanse Director
31. Ulrich Seidl
Producer | Rimini
Ulrich Seidl was born on November 24, 1952 in Vienna, Austria. He is a producer and director, known for Rimini (2022), Paradise: Love (2012) and Goodnight Mommy (2014). He is married to Veronika Franz. They have two children.
Director of Paradise Trilogy whose work is very different in aesthetics and very authentic European...
32. Eric Khoo
Director | Be with Me
Cultural Medallion recipient and award winning film maker Eric Khoo who helms Zhao Wei Films/ Gorylah Pictures has been credited for reviving the Singapore film industry and for putting Singapore onto the International film map in 1995. He was the first Singaporean to have his films invited to ...
A Singaporean art-house filmmaker
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