Filmmaker Famous Names Starting with Letter C

Was a French director and actor.

Was a French director and actor.

Is a Chinese film director.Chen joined the Red Guards. As a teenage member of the Red Guards, Chen,

Is a Chinese film director.Chen joined the Red Guards. As a teenage member of the Red Guards, Chen, like many other youths, denounced his own father, a fateful decision he eventually learned to regret. Indeed, this period of his life continues to influence much of his work today, notably in the unblinking depictions of the Cultural Revolution in Farewell My Concubine, and in the father-son relationship in Together.[1] With the end of the Cultural Revolution, Chen, in 1978 joined the Beijing Film Academy, where he graduated from in 1982 as part of the so-called Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers.

Is a New York-based theater director.Having earned a BA from the Hunan Art School in Traditional Ope

Is a New York-based theater director.Having earned a BA from the Hunan Art School in Traditional Opera, he received his MA from the Tisch School of Art at New York University. In 2000, Chen was awarded the title Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.Chen's directorial debut film, Dark Matter, was released in 2007, starring Liu Ye and Meryl Streep. This film won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. He also directed Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's operatic stage adaptation of Monkey: Journey to the West at the Manchester International Festival in June–July 2007. In 2008 he directed the premiere production of Stewart Wallace's opera The Bonesetter's Daughter at the San Francisco Opera

Was a prominent Chinese film director during the 1930s. Employed by the Mingxing Film Company, Cheng

Was a prominent Chinese film director during the 1930s. Employed by the Mingxing Film Company, Cheng was responsible for several important "leftist" films in the period, including the Wild Torrents (1933) and Spring Silkworms (1933). Both films were based on screenplays by Xia Yan.[1]

Was a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A maker of period films that sought to int

Was a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A maker of period films that sought to introduce international audiences to his vision of Thai culture, his best-known work is the 1977 romance film Plae Kao (The Scar), which earned more box-office receipts than any Thai film before it. It won a prize at the 1981 Three Continents Festival in Nantes, France.Cherd was born in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province. He was trained as a maker of nang talung shadow puppets, which were fashioned out of animal skins. He was also a school teacher in Uttaradit Province and then became an editor of publications for the Express Transportation Organization of Thailand. From there, he became an editor of the Movie and TV Weekly magazine of Lak Muang Daily newspaper. He wrote articles and short stories, as well as scripts for radio and television programs.

Was an acclaimed Hindi film producer, screenwriter and director from India, whose debut film, Neecha

Was an acclaimed Hindi film producer, screenwriter and director from India, whose debut film, Neecha Nagar, bagged the Palme d'Or (Best Film) award, at the Cannes Film Festival in 1946.In the early 1940s, while he was teaching History, he wrote a film script on king Ashoka, which he went on to show to director, Phani Majumdar in Bombay, but not before his failed attempt to qualify, the Indian Civil Service (ICS) exams, in London. As luck would have it, Phani Majumdar, instead cast him, as a lead in his Hindi film, Rajkumar, released in 1944. He also became associated with Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) in Bombay.

A Thai film director and screenwriter. He is also credited as Ma-Deaw Chukiatsakwirakul or Matthew C

A Thai film director and screenwriter. He is also credited as Ma-Deaw Chukiatsakwirakul or Matthew Chukiat Sakwirakul.He graduated from Montfort College Chiangmai.Chookiat's first feature-length film was an ensemble drama, The Passenger of Li, which was an independent production. His next film was Pisaj, a 2004 horror film produced by Sahamongkol Film International. Chookiat garnered critical acclaim for this next film, 13 Beloved, a gritty drama about a deadly underground reality television game, which won several awards in Thailand and from film festivals.[1]

Is an English radio/television presenter and producer.[1]

Is an English radio/television presenter and producer.[1]

Is a French writer, photographer, film director, multimedia artist and documentary maker. His best k

Is a French writer, photographer, film director, multimedia artist and documentary maker. His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977), Sans Soleil (1983) and AK (1985), a documentary on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

Is a French film director best known for directing the films Kiss of the Dragon, Empire of the Wolve

Is a French film director best known for directing the films Kiss of the Dragon, Empire of the Wolves, and Blood: The Last Vampire.

Is a French film director, dialogue writer and screenwriter.

Is a French film director, dialogue writer and screenwriter.

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the 1971 film The Wedding Ring, which starre

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the 1971 film The Wedding Ring, which starred Anna Karina.[1]

Is a Danish filmmaker.A graduate of the National Film School of Denmark, he worked in lower position

Is a Danish filmmaker.A graduate of the National Film School of Denmark, he worked in lower positions on a number of Danish films before producing his first hit movie, Nynne (2005), a comedy directed by Jonas Elmer.He then produced and directed the social realist drama Råzone (2006), also known as Life Hits, which was nominated for a Bodil Award as Best Film, and nominated for two Robert Awards as Best Children/Family Film, as well as for Best Director.

Was a French film producer, screenwriter and film director. Alongside Alain Poiré and Claude Berri,

Was a French film producer, screenwriter and film director. Alongside Alain Poiré and Claude Berri, he is considered as one of the most prolific producres in the history of french cinema, producing some of the biggest successes in French movies since the 1970s, with mostly comedies.

Was a French director, actor and screenwriter working in French cinema. A native of Marseille, his s

Was a French director, actor and screenwriter working in French cinema. A native of Marseille, his sister was film director Nadine Trintignant, and he can be seen as a heartthrob in French movies of the 1950s. He was first noticed in Christian-Jaque's Lucrèce Borgia (1953) as Lucrezia's lover picked up in Roma streets during Carnival, he is the next day pursued about through a forest like a game at bay by Lucrezia (Martine Carol) and her brother Cesare (Pedro Armendariz). In 1956 he was directed by Roger Vadim in Et Dieu créa la femme (And God Created Woman) opposite Brigitte Bardot. Marquand directed two pictures, the most famous of which was Candy (1968).

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He won the César Award for Best Debut and Best Writing

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He won the César Award for Best Debut and Best Writing for La Discrète.

Was a French filmmaker. He was married to actress Martine Carol from 1954 to 1959. At the 2nd Berlin

Was a French filmmaker. He was married to actress Martine Carol from 1954 to 1959. At the 2nd Berlin International Film Festival his film Fanfan la Tulipe won the Silver Berlin Bear award.[1]

Is a film director, writer, and costume designer. She is best known for her critically acclaimed fil

Is a film director, writer, and costume designer. She is best known for her critically acclaimed film adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel, Little Dorrit (1988), for which she was nominated for an Oscar for best adapted screenplay. It is widely considered to be one of the finest of all Dickens adaptations.[citation needed]

Was a professional puppeteer and spent most of her working life involved to some degree with Gerry A

Was a professional puppeteer and spent most of her working life involved to some degree with Gerry Anderson.She was born with the name Nancy Christine Fletcher in Halifax, West Yorkshire, but moved to London in early childhood. She became involved in the film industry during war service at Elstree Studios and studied art in her free time. After the end of the war she joined a puppet theatre company that her parents were connected with - this set her upon a course she would follow for many years.

Is a French film director and screenwriter.[1]

Is a French film director and screenwriter.[1]

Is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is an established and well-known not only in Denmark,

Is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is an established and well-known not only in Denmark, but all through the world. Among his international awards there are FIPRESCI Director of the Year at San Sebastián International Film Festival and Golden Camera at Cannes Film Festival in 2003. He is also co-founder and director of the film production company AlphaVille Pictures Copenhagen.

Is a French film producer, film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his hugely successfu

Is a French film producer, film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his hugely successful film The Chorus (2004). As the lyricist of the film's song Look To Your Path (Vois Sur Ton Chemin), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film as well as eight César Awards, of which it won two.

Is a French film director, writer, and producer who specializes in horror, fantasy movies and video

Is a French film director, writer, and producer who specializes in horror, fantasy movies and video game adaptations. As a teenager, he spent much time creating kung-fu themed Super 8 movies with his friends. He later went on to attend the French film school Idhec, where he created his first short film Silver Slime. He later spent time as a film critic before co-directing his first film Necronomicon.

Is a French writer and film director born in Carhaix, Finistère in 1970. After moving to Paris in 1

Is a French writer and film director born in Carhaix, Finistère in 1970. After moving to Paris in 1995, he wrote articles in the "Les Cahiers du Cinéma." He started writing soon-after. His 1996 book Tout contre Léo (Close to Leo) talks about HIV and is aimed at young adults; he made it into a movie in 2002. He wrote other books for young adults throughout the late 1990s. His first play, Les Débutantes, was performed at Avignon's Off Festival in 1998.

Was a prolific Filipino film producer, director, writer and cinematographer. He also uses the screen

Was a prolific Filipino film producer, director, writer and cinematographer. He also uses the screen names: Cirio Santiago and Leonard Hermes.In the 1970s, he directed English-language films, some of which portrayed black actors and actresses as action heroes. He is known for the films such as Savage! (film) (1973), T.N.T. Jackson (1975) and Firehawk (1993). In the 1980s, he focused on creating low-budget Vietnam war movies. He had worked with U.S. producer, Roger Corman and U.S. directors namely Jonathan Demme, Joe Dante and Carl Franklin. In 1995, he became the president of the Philippines Film Development Fund, a position appointed to him by the then President Fidel V. Ramos, to improve the quality of Filipino films and also to encourage the production of foreign movies on location in the Philippines. Santiago died September 26, 2008 from lung cancer.