Filmmaker Famous Names Starting with Letter F

Is a French aquatic filmmaker and oceanographic explorer. He is son of Jean-Michel Cousteau and gran

Is a French aquatic filmmaker and oceanographic explorer. He is son of Jean-Michel Cousteau and grandson of the noted oceanographic explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Born in Paris, he grew up in both France and the United States, and frequently accompanied

Is a French film director and scriptwriter.

Is a French film director and scriptwriter.

A film director from India.Faisal Saif started his career as an Independent Music Video Director. He

A film director from India.Faisal Saif started his career as an Independent Music Video Director. He directed videos for Catrack Music and Vital Records. He then made a Docu-Feature on Homosexuality titled A Love Without Name for TV.Faisal Saif later made his first Feature Film Come December in 2003 which till date never got released due to the Producer Aushim Khetarpal. The film Come December got Faisal Saif an International Award for Best Story in 2006. He then made Jigyaasa in 2005 which was very high publicised film of the year 2006.

A Kurdish Iranian film director and producer.Kamkari was born in 1981 in Rome, Italy, and studied ci

A Kurdish Iranian film director and producer.Kamkari was born in 1981 in Rome, Italy, and studied cinema and theater in Tehran, Iran. He has written several scripts for other Iranian directors, and has produced and directed some short films. In 2002, he wrote and directed his first feature film, Black Tape. The film won the top jury prize at Cinequest Film Festival, and was in competition at several other festivals, including the Venice Film Festival.

Is a former Chechen boarding school director and teacher who pioneered efforts for female education

Is a former Chechen boarding school director and teacher who pioneered efforts for female education in the North Caucasus. Fariza has been awarded the Order of Lenin for her efforts in spreading secondary education, particularly for young women, in the Chechen-Ingush ASSR.

An internationally-acclaimed Persian animation director.She studied psychology at the Alzahra Univer

An internationally-acclaimed Persian animation director.She studied psychology at the Alzahra University in Tehran in the mid-1980s]. In 1988, she joined IIDCYA (Kanoon) and learned theory and practice of animation under the supervision of Vajihollah Fard-Moghaddam. Torabi was the assistant director of Vajihollah Fard-Moghaddam's film Lili Hosak. which won several international awards.

Was an Italian film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he

Was an Italian film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered film-makers of the 20th century.

Was a major Chinese film director from the pre-Communist era.Fei's legacy as one of China's greatest

Was a major Chinese film director from the pre-Communist era.Fei's legacy as one of China's greatest directors was sealed with his 1948 influential masterpiece Spring in a Small Town about a love triangle in post-war China (it was later remade by Tian Zhuangzhuang in 2002 as Springtime in a Small Town). In 2005, Spring in a Small Town was declared the greatest Chinese films ever made by the Hong Kong Film Critics Association.[3] Fei remained active in this so-called "Second Golden Age" and also directed China's first color film Remorse at Death (1948), which incorporated Beijing Opera and starred Mei Lanfang.[4]. Following the Communist revolution in 1949, Fei Mu, along with many other artists and intellectuals fled to Hong Kong. There he founded Longma Film Company ("Dragon-Horse Films") with Zhu Shilin and Fei Luyi and produced (under the Longma name) Zhu Shilin's The Flower Girl (1951).

Is a Polish movie and theater director as well as writer of film scripts, stage plays, television pl

Is a Polish movie and theater director as well as writer of film scripts, stage plays, television plays, and radio shows. A 1966 graduate of Warsaw's Academy of Fine Arts, he also is a painter and graphic artist. Falk is one of creators of the 1970s wave of Polish cinematography, called Cinema of moral anxiety. Among his most famous movies there are Wodzirej (Top Dog) (1977) and Samowolka (AWOL) (1993). Falk has won a number of major filmmaking awards.

Is a Filipina director. She was the first woman to win the FAMAS Award for Best Director in 1967.

Is a Filipina director. She was the first woman to win the FAMAS Award for Best Director in 1967.

Is an actor, xiangsheng performer, film director, and screenwriter from Tianjin, China. He is the gr

Is an actor, xiangsheng performer, film director, and screenwriter from Tianjin, China. He is the great grandson of Feng Guozhang, a statesman and warlord of China during the early 20th century.

Was an early French film director. Zecca was a cafe entertainer, playing the cornet, before switchin

Was an early French film director. Zecca was a cafe entertainer, playing the cornet, before switching to film in his mid-30s. His first film credit, Le Muet mélomane (1899), was the film version of a musical fantasy which he and a colleague named Charlus performed in Parisian cafés at the time.

Was an Argentine film producer, film director, screenwriter andfilm producer of the classic era. He

Was an Argentine film producer, film director, screenwriter andfilm producer of the classic era. He is widely considered one of the most important Argentine film directors and producers in the history of the Cinema of Argentina.Demicheli initially began as a trainee assistant director in 1942 in El Viaje and within two years he had become an assistant director. By 1949 he had developed into a main film director beginning his role as a film producer in the films he directed and some others in 1958. Between 1950 and 1987 he was involved in the direcotrship and production of well over 40 films, directing and producing films such as Ayer fue primavera (1955) and Argentinísima and Argentinísima II in 1972 and 1973 respectively.

an Argentinian film maker and theorist. He is considered by many to be the father of the newLatin A

an Argentinian film maker and theorist. He is considered by many to be the father of the newLatin American cinema.Birri was born in Santa Fe, Argentina. After being involved in theater and poetry, he went to Rome to study film-making at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, from 1950 to 1953, and appeared in the 1955 Italian film Gli Sbandati. In 1956 he returned to Santa Fe, to form the Film Institute at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral university. A year later he started filming scenes of poverty and human misery in lower-class Santa Fe. The project, billed as a "survey film", spanned three years, and filming wrapped up in 1958. Before screening the resulting 33-minute documentary, Tire dié, Birri first debuted with a short film in 1959, called La primera fundación de Buenos Aires. The documentary itself premiered in 1960, earning Birri critical acclaim and paving his way for further projects of similar nature, like Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (1960) and more famously Los inundados (1961), which won the Venice Film Festival award for Best First Film.

Is a Brazilian film director.He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director in 2004 for his

Is a Brazilian film director.He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director in 2004 for his work in the Brazilian film City of God, released in 2002 in Brazil and in 2003 in the U.S. by Miramax Films. He was also nominated for the Golden Globe Best Director award in 2005 for The Constant Gardener.He studied at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of São Paulo during the 1980s. His graduation work was done in the form of a film, instead of the traditional designs of the other students: he went to Japan and bought professional video equipment to do the job. He presented it and graduated with the minimum acceptable grade.

Is a pioneer and producer of trance, in addition to being a world-renowned DJ and remixer

Is a pioneer and producer of trance, in addition to being a world-renowned DJ and remixer

An Iranian film director.She graduated from the IRIB Faculty and also studied film production in Bos

An Iranian film director.She graduated from the IRIB Faculty and also studied film production in Boston University.

Is a Polish-born filmmaker and short story writer.

Is a Polish-born filmmaker and short story writer.

Is a Czech film director, cinematographer and producer.Filip Remunda graduated at FAMU–documentary

Is a Czech film director, cinematographer and producer.Filip Remunda graduated at FAMU–documentary directing department in the masterclass of Karel Vachek.[1] His film, Village B., was named best documentary film at the 2002 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and at the 2003 FAMU Festival, and it received the Don Quixote Award at the 2003 Art Film Trencianské Teplice festival, as well as several other prizes at festivals in Europe and the United States. During his studies, Filip Remunda also attended the workshop at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem. Filip Remunda, is co-founder of the Institute of Documentary Film (IDF) which supports the promotion of Eastern European Films and is actively involved in lecturing at the Ex Oriente Film

Is a Danish film producer.

Is a Danish film producer.

Was a Danish film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films and wrote for 19 between 1960 and

Was a Danish film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films and wrote for 19 between 1960 and 1989.

Is a French film director born in Lorraine. He began his feature film career with the 1998 social fi

Is a French film director born in Lorraine. He began his feature film career with the 1998 social film Une minute de silence (One minute of silence), and continued in 2002 with the action film Nid de guêpes (The Nest), and then went on to serve as director of two critically-acclaimed and highly successful Splinter Cell games at French-based video game developer Ubisoft, titled Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.

Was a Dutch filmmaker and actor.During a career spanning several decades he directed 11 films, inclu

Was a Dutch filmmaker and actor.During a career spanning several decades he directed 11 films, including The Assault, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986, and The Village on the River, nominated for the same award in 1959. Making him both the first Dutch director to be nominated and win this award.

Was an Iranian poetess and film director. Forugh Farrokhzad is arguably Iran's most significant fema

Was an Iranian poetess and film director. Forugh Farrokhzad is arguably Iran's most significant female poet of the twentieth century. She was a brilliant modernist poet and an iconoclast.Forugh (also spelled as Forough) was born in Tehran to career military officer Colonel Mohammad Bagher Farrokhzad and his wife Touran Vaziri-Tabar in 1935. She was the third of seven children (Amir, Massoud, Mehrdad, Fereydon, Pouran, Gloria) and attended school until the ninth grade, then learning painting and sewing at a girl's school for the manual arts. At age sixteen or seventeen she was married to Parviz Shapour, an acclaimed satirist. Forugh continued her education with classes in painting and sewing and moved with her husband to Ahvaz. A year later, she had her only child, a son named Kamyar (subject of A Poem for You).

Is a five-time Academy Award-winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Coppola is

Is a five-time Academy Award-winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Coppola is also a vintner, magazine publisher, and hotelier. He is a graduate of Hofstra University where he studied theatre. He earned an M.F.A. in film directing from the UCLA Film School. He is most renowned for directing the highly regarded Godfather trilogy, The Conversation, and the Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now.