Filmmaker Famous Names Starting with Letter C

An independent music video and film director known for his dark and surreal style.Ciro Ayala was bor

An independent music video and film director known for his dark and surreal style.Ciro Ayala was born on May 10, 1981 in Chaco Province,Argentina, the son of Miguel Angel Ayala, a police chief, and his wife Maria Ines Rojas, a professional nurse. Ciro was raised in Buenos Aires. Inspired by the films of Steven Spielberg, Ciro began making movies at age ten with a Panasonic video camera, a gift from his parents. His first "home made" movie was about a dinosaur brought to earth by an asteroid.At age 15, Ciro edited videos for Interpol, Sport Championships and Identity Films, with his own Video Editing platform, installed at his bedroom. In 2000, at age 19, with the help of producer Facundo Marcías, Ciro wrote and directed his first independent movie, a 30 minute suspense short called Disfraz. The movie was later shown in the Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre International Film Festival for 3 consecutive years, as well as in Madrid and Paris.

Is a French film director. Denis initially studied economics, but, she has said, "It was completely

Is a French film director. Denis initially studied economics, but, she has said, "It was completely suicidal. Everything pissed me off."[1] She then went to the IDHEC, the French film school, at the encouragement of her husband. He told her she needed to figure out what she wanted to do.[1] She graduated from the IDHEC, and served as assistant to Jacques Rivette, Costa-Gavras, Jim Jarmusch, and Wim Wenders.

Is a French director and writer. She was nominated for the 1987 César Award for Best Debut for dire

Is a French director and writer. She was nominated for the 1987 César Award for Best Debut for directing Noir et Blanc (1986).

Was a French film director and later Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Autant-Lara was educat

Was a French film director and later Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Autant-Lara was educated in France and at London's Mill Hill School during his mother's exile as a pacifist. Early in his career, he worked as an art director and costume designer, his best known work in this vein was possibly for Nana (1926), a silent film directed by Jean Renoir. Autant-Lara also acted in the film.

Is a French master at arms in classical fencing who became a period and fencing advisor to French fi

Is a French master at arms in classical fencing who became a period and fencing advisor to French films. He graduated to a stunt performer, stunt coordinator, special effects person and film director. He worked with such legends of the French cinema as Jean Marais, Louis de Funes, Gérard Oury and Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was a President of the Academie d'Armes de France and the first President of the French Stuntman's Union[1].

Is a French film director, a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who

Is a French film director, a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma before beginning his career as a film maker.

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed 16 films since 1970. His film Salome was

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed 16 films since 1970. His film Salome was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.[1] A year later his film Macbeth would be screened out of competition at the 1987 Festival.[2]

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the 1965 film Un mari à un prix fixe, which

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the 1965 film Un mari à un prix fixe, which starred Anna Karina.[1]

Is a French filmmaker and professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.[1] Lanzman

Is a French filmmaker and professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.[1] Lanzmann attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in Auvergne.[2] Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed the 1960 antiwar petition Manifesto of the 121.[3]

Is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, The 1981 musical epic Les Uns et les Autres is

Is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, The 1981 musical epic Les Uns et les Autres is widely considered as his masterpiece, and his credits now add up to 50 or so films.

Is a French film director, producer and screenwriter. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 196

Is a French film director, producer and screenwriter. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with Le Service Cinema de L'Armee. From 1965 until 1974, Miller worked in assistant and supervisory capacities for many of France's major New Wave directors, including Robert Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard.

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed nine films since 1989. His film Dis-moi

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed nine films since 1989. His film Dis-moi que je rêve was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Is a French film director and scriptwriter. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts de Seine, Île-de-Fr

Is a French film director and scriptwriter. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts de Seine, Île-de-France, France.[1]

Was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1968 and 1996.

Was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1968 and 1996.

Was a French author and film director.He earned international attention with Les Choses de la Vie (1

Was a French author and film director.He earned international attention with Les Choses de la Vie (1969), which he wrote and directed, like the rest of his later films. It was shown in competition at the 1970 Cannes Festival, where it received enthusiasti

Is a French film director and screenwriter who is noted for his mainstream burlesque comedies. Born

Is a French film director and screenwriter who is noted for his mainstream burlesque comedies. Born in Paris, he started as a cameraman and then cinematographer, and made his directorial and screenwriting debut in 1971. He won the César Award for Best Director for My New Partner, for which he was also nominated for Best Writing.

Was a Jamaican record producer who was influential in the development of ska and reggae in the 1950s

Was a Jamaican record producer who was influential in the development of ska and reggae in the 1950s, '60s and beyond. He received his nickname "Coxsone" at school; because of his teenage talent as a cricketer, his friends compared him to Alec Coxon, a member of the famous 1940s Yorkshire County Cricket Club team.

Is an American film director, film actor, producer, and composer. He has won the Academy Award five

Is an American film director, film actor, producer, and composer. He has won the Academy Award five times - twice each as Best Director and as producer of the Best Picture and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1995.

Is a French film director and writer. In Paris Serreau studied literature, music and theatre as well

Is a French film director and writer. In Paris Serreau studied literature, music and theatre as well as circus. In 1970 she made her debut as an actress at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier, in 1973 she wrote her first screenplay.Her first film , the documentary film Mais qu'est ce qu'elles veulent? (1978), literally: But what do they want, after all?, was a compilation of interviews with women from various backgrounds. The frankness of the statements shocked parts of the public.

Is an Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter. His films are noted for their d

Is an Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter. His films are noted for their dark sense of humor and satirical depictions of contemporary American society. His films also revolve around adultery in marriage and relationships. He also tends to set his films in Omaha.

Better known as (Constantin) Costa-Gavras (??sta? Gaß???), is a Greek-French filmmaker best known f

Better known as (Constantin) Costa-Gavras (??sta? Gaß???), is a Greek-French filmmaker best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the dark, fast-paced thriller, Z (1969). Most of his movies were made in French; starting with Missing (1982), several were made in English.

Is a Greek film director and actor. At the age of 15 he displayed his acting skills by starring in V

Is a Greek film director and actor. At the age of 15 he displayed his acting skills by starring in Vassilis Yatsis' short film "The Final Night" in 2006, which was awarded at the 29th International Short Film Festival in Drama, Greece. Constantinos Hilas has written and directed two short films of his own, the first of which being a 3 minutes' creation titled "The Lamp"

Is a Romanian film director and screenwriter

Is a Romanian film director and screenwriter

Is a Greek-born French filmmaker, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously th

Is a Greek-born French filmmaker, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller, Z (1969). Most of his movies were made in French; starting with Missing (1982), several were made in English.[1]

Is a Greek movie director, writer, actor, and producer. He wrote the lyrics of Aphrodite's Child's a

Is a Greek movie director, writer, actor, and producer. He wrote the lyrics of Aphrodite's Child's album 666.