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3 Minute Wonder

3 Minute Wonder is a short Channel 4 television slot that broadcasts first time directors' three-minute TV programmes in the middle of the channel's weekday primetime schedule.

Balam Pardesia

Balam Pardesia is Bhojpuri film released in 1979 directed by Nazir HussainThe actors were Rakesh pandey and Padama khanna.

Lisa Scafuro

Lisa Scafuro (born Lisa Ann Scafuro); is an American director and producer of documentary films, as well as a published writer.


A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story

A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story is a 1994 biographical television film directed by Larry Peerce.

After Office Hours

After Office Hours is a 1935 film starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett and directed by Robert Z. Leonard.

Aleksandrs Leimanis

Aleksandrs Leimanis (17 October 1913 in the village Gabrilovo, Smolensk Governorate — 17 June 1990 in Riga) was a Latvian film director.

Alpha Bravo Charlie

Alpha Bravo Charlie (Urdu script: الفا براوو چارلی) is an action and thriller drama series, produced by ISPR and directed by acclaimed Pakistani drama and film director Shoaib Mansoor.

Amir Bar-Lev

Amir Bar-Lev (born in 1972) is an American film director, producer and writer from Berkeley, California.

Appooppan

Appooppan (also known as Charitram Aavarthikkunnilla before release) is a 1976 Malayalam-language Indian feature film directed by P. Bhaskaran, starring Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair, Jayabharathi and Sumithra.

Arrive Alive

Arrive Alive is the title of an unfinished comedy film starring Willem Dafoe and Joan Cusack, directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik and produced by Art Linson.

Brian J. Terwilliger

Brian J. Terwilliger is a motion picture producer/director who is most noted for the 2005 high-definition documentary, One Six Right, which has received acclaim and press for pioneering independent film distribution and high-definition filmmaking.

Charley Rogers

Charley Rogers (15 January 1887 – 20 December 1956) was an English film actor, director and screenwriter, best known for his association with Laurel and Hardy.

Christine Jeffs

Christine Jeffs (born 1963) is a New Zealand-born film director known for directing the British motion picture Sylvia, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig, and the American independent film Sunshine Cleaning (2009), with Amy Adams and Emily Blunt.

Cleo Baldon

Baldon is married to novelist, screenwriter and film director Ib Melchior, with whom she co-authored of the non-fiction books, Reflections on the Pool: California Designs for Swimming and Steps & Stairways.

Enzo Barboni

Enzo Barboni (July 10, 1922 – March 23, 2002), sometimes credited by his pseudonym E.B. Clucher, was an Italian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter, best known for his slapstick comedies starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer.

Eva Ras

She performed in theatres throughout the former Yugoslavia and Serbia, on television in series written by Siniša Pavić and Dragoslav Lazić, and in films directed by Dušan Makavejev, Aleksandar Petrović, Živko Nikolić, Emir Kusturica, and Ferenc Kardos among others.

Fares Fares

He is the brother of director Josef Fares, and has several times played major parts in his films, including Jalla! Jalla! (2000) and Kopps (2003) and son of father Jan Fares, also an actor.

Final Blackout

In 1989, Young Guns film director Christopher Cain optioned the rights to Final Blackout and developed a script for a possible film-version of the book.

Frank Spotnitz

After The X-Files ended its run in 2002, Spotnitz served as executive producer alongside director Michael Mann of the critically acclaimed CBS crime drama Robbery Homicide Division.

Gertrude Bambrick

Her first marriage to early film director Marshall Neilan ended in divorce and resulted in one child, Marshall Neilan Jr, who later became a successful film editor.

Grigori Kromanov

Grigori Kromanov (8 March 1926 in Tallinn – 18 July 1984 in Lahe, Lääne-Virumaa) was an Estonian theatre and film director.

Harry S. Robins

Robins co-wrote the film Kamillions with director Mike B. Anderson, in addition to playing Nathan, the Wingate family patriarch and benevolent mad scientist.

Ice La Fox

In 2012, Ice appeared in another multi-AVN award-nominated crossover adult movie, called Rack City: The XXX Movie, which was produced, co-directed by and co-starred (in a non-sex role) with rapper Tyga and based on a twice turned platinum song by the rapper.

Jen Miller

Reverend Jen Miller (also known as Saint Reverend Jen and Reverend Jen — born Jennifer Miller on July 24, 1972 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American performer, underground movie star, writer, painter, director, preacher, and poet from Manhattan, New York City.

Justin Reardon

Justin Reardon is a film writer, director, producer and editor.

Kamillions

Kamillions is a 1989 film directed by Mikel B. Anderson from a story by Robert Hsi and a screenplay Anderson wrote in collaboration with Harry S. Robins.

L'ispettore Coliandro

L'ispettore Coliandro is a series of Italian tongue-in-cheek television movies directed by Marco Manetti and Antonio Manetti (collectively Manetti Bros.), and written by the crime writer Carlo Lucarelli and starring Giampaolo Morelli in the title role of the Inspector Coliandro.

Michael M. Robin

Michael M. Robin is an American television producer and director, most notable for his work as an executive producer on the FX series Nip/Tuck, where he is also a frequent director.

My Wedding and Other Secrets

But life seems to have other ideas for Emily, who dreams of becoming a world-famous director and falls in love with a white boy from university, James Harrison (Matt Whelan).

Nancy Drew... Reporter

Reporter is a 1939 American film directed by William Clemens and starring Bonita Granville as Nancy Drew.

Raasaleela

Raasaleela is a 1975 Malayalam-language Indian feature film directed by N. Sankaran Nair and produced by Carmel Johny for RJD Films, starring Kamal Hassan and Jayasudha.

Sanyasi Mera Naam

Sanyasi Mera Naam is a 1999 Hindi-language Indian feature film directed by Imran Khalid, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Siddharth Dhawan, Shalini Kapoor, Raushni Jaffrey, Kader Khan, Milind Gunaji and Dhananjay Singh.

Scott Dacko

Scott Dacko is the screenwriter and director of The Insurgents, starring Mary Stuart Masterson, John Shea, Henry Simmons, Juliette Marquis and Michael Mosley.

Sengathu Bhoomiyilae

Sengathu Bhoomiyilae is a 2012 Tamil-language Indian feature film directed by M. Rathnakumar for producer Revathi Duraimurugan.

Serge Bourguignon

Serge Bourguignon (born 3 September 1928) is a French film director and screenwriter.

Stere Gulea

Stere Gulea (born 2 August 1943 in Mihail Kogalniceanu village, Constanţa County) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter.

Sukhamo Devi

Sukhamo Devi is a 1986 Malayalam-language Indian feature film directed by Venu Nagavally who described the film as his own tragical love story.

Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2

Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (also known as Baby Geniuses 2: Superbabies) is a 2004 comedy film and the last to be directed by Bob Clark before his death.

Tahader Katha

Tahader Katha is a 1992 award winning Bengali-language Indian feature film directed by Budhhadeb Dasgupta, starring Mithun Chakraborty, who won the 1993 National Film Awards for Best Actor for the film, while the film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali.

The Secret Magdalene

Writer and film director Nancy Savoca, and her husband, film producer Rich Guay, bought the film rights of the Eio edition.

The Total Picture Seminar

The Total Picture Seminar, a California LLC, was formed by Actor Martin Landau, Director Mark Rydell, and Screenwriter/Playwright Lyle Kessler.

The Willowz

The band collaborated with director Michel Gondry on their music video "I Wonder" and in turn produced two songs on the movie soundtrack for Gondry's film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Tom Gilroy

He has written, directed and produced two award winning films—the short Touch Base (IFC/BRAVO) and the critically acclaimed feature Spring Forward (IFC/MGM) starring Liev Schreiber, Ned Beatty, and Campbell Scott, which won a Toronto International Film Festival Discovery Award.

Tristán Ulloa

He has appeared in numerous films, notably Lucía y el sexo (Sex and Lucía), a 2001 Spanish drama film, written and directed by Julio Médem, with Paz Vega.

Under a Cloud

Under a Cloud is a 1937 British drama film directed by George King and starring Betty Ann Davies, Edward Rigby, Bernard Clifton, Brian Buchel and Peter Gawthorne.

Une sale histoire

Une Sale Histoire (also known as A Dirty Story) is an unusual short 1977 French film of two halves, or two related short films tagged on to each other, by French director Jean Eustache.

Ved Rahi

Ved Rahi (born 1933) is an Indian film director who made the film Veer Savarkar (2001), a bio-epic on the life of Indian revolutionary Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.

Vikram Prabhu

Subsequently, he signed on to appear in M. Saravanan's action thriller film Ivan Veramathiri and portrayed the role of a student amongst an ensemble cast also featuring Vamsi Krishna and Ganesh Venkatraman.

Viviré otra vez

Viviré otra vez ("I Will Live Again") is a 1940 Mexican comedy film, directed by Roberto Rodríguez and starring Adriana Lamar, Alicia de Phillips and David Silva.

Yvonne Lombard

Perhaps she is best known for her collaboration with director Ingmar Bergman in A Lesson in Love.

Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez

She has appeared in two films by director Alex Cox, El Patrullero in 1991 and Death and the Compass in 1996.


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Aguiluz

Tikoy Aguiluz, Filipino film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer

Aleksei German

Aleksei Yuryevich German (born 1938–2013), Russian film director and screenwriter

Always Kabhi Kabhi

The music is composed by Pritam Chakraborty, Aashish Rego and Shree D. Lyrics are penned by the film director Roshan Abbas, Amitabh Bhattacharya, Irfan Siddique and Prashant Pandey.

Antony Crockett

He is the son of John Crockett, (John Angus Basil) the artist, playwright and television and film director, grandson of Colonel Basil Crockett (Basil Edwin) DSO and William Joseph Stern OBE (civ.), nephew of Colonel Anthony John Stewart Crockett RM, OBE (Mil.), ADC, and descendant of the Blessed Ralph Crockett, English Martyr.

Bertoglio

Edo Bertoglio (born 1951), Swiss photographer and film director

Brunello Rondi

Brunello Rondi, (Tirano, 26 November 1924 – Rome, 7 November 1989) was a prolific Italian screen writer and film director best known for his frequent script collaborations with Federico Fellini.

Charles R. Pellegrino

One of his recent books (co-authored with Simcha Jacobovici) is The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence That Could Change History (2007), a companion book to the Discovery Channel documentary on the same subject created in part by film director James Cameron.

Derby della Mole

Turinese novelist and film director Mario Soldati once commented that Juventus were "the team of gentlemen, industrial pioneers, Jesuits, conservatives and the wealthy bourgeois" while Torino were "the team of the working class, migrant workers from the provinces or neighbouring countries, the lower middle-class and the poor".

Disability in the media

"Little People are Surreal" (examples include the character Tattoo in the television show Fantasy Island; a recurring use of a dwarf as a motif in American film director David Lynch's works, such as Mulholland Drive; and a dwarf actor who appears as a prominent cast extra in the film The Eyes of Laura Mars;

Doug Lefler

Doug Lefler (born California) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer and storyboard artist, best known as director of the Dragonheart fantasy adventure film sequel, Dragonheart: A New Beginning, and recently The Last Legion.

En Manaivi

He sought out Marathi film director Sundar Rao Nadkarni who had recently entered the Tamil film industry with Shantha Sakkubai.

Esmael Barari

Barari's works are influenced by documentary filmmaker Morteza Avini and narrative film director Abbas Kiarostami, Who has a reputation for using child protagonists, for documentary style narrative films, for stories that take place in rural villages, and for conversations that unfold inside cars, using stationary mounted cameras.

Giulio Manfredonia

He is grandson of the famous director Luigi Comencini, after several experiences as assistant director of Antonio Albanese, Luigi Comencini and Cristina Comencini, debut as film director in 2001 with the comedy Se fossi in te.

Heisenberg

Benjamin Heisenberg (born 1974), German film director and screenwriter

Helmut Käutner

Helmut Käutner (25 March 1908, Düsseldorf – 20 April 1980, Castellina in Chianti) was a German film director active mainly in the 1940s and 1950s.

In the Affirmative

Though Lelouch had experienced failure with his debut feature Le Propre de l'homme, he managed to gain favourable exposure when the film was sent to be exhibited in Sweden and earned compliments from Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman.

Ji-tae

Yoo Ji-tae (born 1976), South Korean actor and film director

John Beck

John Beck Hofmann aka John Beck (born 1969), film director and screenwriter

John C. Hodges Library

Its special collections department includes notable collections such as the writings of James Agee and Alex Haley, as well as film director Clarence Brown.

Karim Abdel Aziz

He is the son of director Mohammad Abdul Aziz and nephew of film director Omar Abdel Aziz, while his aunt is the actress Samira Muhsin.

Kensington Renewal Initiative

The Kensington Renewal Initiative (KRI) is a Philadelphia-based advocacy and community development organization founded by film director, Jamie Moffett.

Lelia Doolan

She taught at the College of Commerce, Rathmines (now part of the DIT) between 1979 and 1988, where she established and was head of the first Irish course in Media Communications, teaching Bryan Dobson (news anchor), Fergus Tighe (film director), Anne Cassin (newsreader), and Ned O'Hanlon (U2 and Rolling Stones video director) amongst others.

Lindzay Chan

As a long working partner of Hong Kong film director Evans Chan, she was named Best Actress at the Golden Horse Film Festival for her performance in To Liv(e) (1992) for the role of Rubie, who writes a letter to Swedish actress Liv Ullmann against her criticism of Hong Kong's policy in expelling Vietnamese boat people.

Løve

Mia Hansen-Løve (born 1981), French film director and screenwriter

Madison Young

MSNBC journalist Brian Alexander devoted a chapter of his 2008 book America Unzipped to her work and art, and French film director Virginie Despentes features Young in her forthcoming documentary, Mutantes.

Max Miller

Max B. Miller (1937–2011), American film director and photographer

Melvin Smith

Mel Smith (1952-2013), English comedian, actor, film director, writer, and producer

Morikawa

Yōichirō Morikawa (born 1979), film director, screenwriter and actor

Narayana Rao

Dasari Narayana Rao (born 1947), Telugu film director and Parliamentarian

Pearry Teo

Pearry Reginald Teo Zhang Pingli (born 23 July 1978), film director/producer, is the first Singaporean movie director to make a Hollywood film.

Pjer Žalica

Pjer Žalica (born 7 May 1964 in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian film director and a professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo.

Reggie Rock Bythewood

Reggie Rock Bythewood (born July 7, 1965) in The Bronx, New York City, New York, is a film director, writer, actor and producer.

Roy Smith

Roy Allen Smith (born 1954), American animator, film director and producer

Sabyasachi Mishra

After gaining a well-established star status in albums, Film Director Hara Patnaik spotted him performing in a stage show and offered him the movie Pagala Premi.

Schottenkirche, Vienna

Noted film director Fritz Lang was born in the parish and baptized in the Schottenkirche.

Sid Rainey

Rainey formed a television production company with award-winning film director, John Deery, called Joella Productions (after Deery's son, Joe, and Rainey's daughter, Ella).

Simon Staho

Danish film director Simon Staho (born 1972) has worked with a number of renowned Swedish actors, including Mikael Persbrandt, Noomi Rapace, Pernilla August, Erland Josephson, Lena Olin and Michael Nyqvist.

Slim Keith

In 1938 she met Howard Hawks, the noted film director, who was immediately smitten with her, and did everything he could to persuade her to marry him, despite his long-standing marriage.

Sooni Taraporevala

The book received glowing advance praise from film director Mira Nair, Harvard literature professor and noted post-colonial theorist Homi K. Bhabha, acclaimed writers Rohinton Mistry and Bapsi Sidhwa and conductor Zubin Mehta.

Tay Ping Hui

Being the all rounded artiste, Tay also later performed in the stage play Butterflies are Free, handpicked by Hong Kong film director Clifton Ko.

The Fallbrook Story

At the time film director Frank Capra served on the Board of the local water agency, the Fallbrook Public Utilities District ("FPUD").

The Newspaper

Film director Atom Egoyan, novelists Rohinton Mistry and Ray Robertson, and television public affairs host Steve Paikin all worked for The Newspaper as students while attending the University of Toronto.

The Phantom Carriage

The film was a powerful influence on the later Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman who also utilised the figure of Death in The Seventh Seal, where the referring to him as a "strict master" is a reference to The Phantom Carriage.

Tourneur

Maurice Tourneur (1873-1961), French film director and screenwriter

Towanda, Pennsylvania

Gregory La Cava - film director, perhaps best known for directing My Man Godfrey.

Tsintsadze

Dito Tsintsadze (born 1957), Georgian film director and screenwriter

Vara: A Blessing

This is first English language feature film by Bhutanese film director, after The Cup (1999) and Travellers and Magicians (2003).

Vienna, Georgia

It is the birthplace of the late Georgia governor George Busbee and the late Hollywood film director Vincent Sherman.

Yu Feihong

Faye Yu Feihong (俞飞鸿) (born 1971 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang) is a Chinese actress, film director and producer, best known in the west for appearing in Wayne Wang's award-winning American films A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007) and The Joy Luck Club (1992).