Filmmaker Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Is a French author and filmmaker. He spent his childhood in Toulon[citation needed]. His family, su

Is a French author and filmmaker. He spent his childhood in Toulon[citation needed]. His family, suspected of collaboration, preferred to leave this city after the war[citation needed].His cinema takes as a starting point the French cinema of the 1930s, with an experimental and autobiographical tone[citation needed]. His best-known films are arguably Rosa la rose and Encore[1]. His films are notably low-budget[1].

Film director, screenwriter, and film producer who has made movies in both the Netherlands and the U

Film director, screenwriter, and film producer who has made movies in both the Netherlands and the United States

Is a Brazilian film director.When studying architecture at the University of São Paulo, Morelli bec

Is a Brazilian film director.When studying architecture at the University of São Paulo, Morelli became involved in experimental film making. In the 90' with Fernando Meirelles and Andrea Barata Ribeiro, he became an advertisement film director with the O2 Filmes, the biggest Brazilian advertisement firm, which has also produced City of God, Domésticas (Maids) and Speaker Phone (Viva Voz). [1]

Is a film director. He studied design and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Diseño (High Ins

Is a film director. He studied design and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Diseño (High Institute of Design) ten years ago.He first worked as a designer, but for a very short period of time. He then began to paint, working with the basic plastic arts and incorporating video in his work. Gradually he managed to accompany his paintings with video installations, emphasizing on irony. Fake TV spots, fake narrative films... Then irony got the upper hand. The advertising business was beginning to take off in Cuba and someone from an ad agency approached Giroud about making a film for a Cigar brand. He accepted,

Is a Russian film director, son of Grigori Chukhrai. His most successful film to date was The Thief

Is a Russian film director, son of Grigori Chukhrai. His most successful film to date was The Thief (1997), nominated to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and winning the Nika Award for Best Picture and Best Directing.

Was a Czech screenwriter and film director. Although not as famous as Miloš Forman or Jirí Menzel,

Was a Czech screenwriter and film director. Although not as famous as Miloš Forman or Jirí Menzel, he was an exponent of the Czech New Wave as well. He worked at Prague Barrandov Studios, however after the Prague Spring he was dismissed.

Was a Czech documentary film director.Koutecký was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and graduated fr

Was a Czech documentary film director.Koutecký was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and graduated from FAMU in 1982. He died in an accidental fall from a tall building under construction in Prague while preparing a documentary about the risks taken by people who climb skyscrapers.[1]

S a Russian film director. In 1990 Lungin was awarded the Best Director Prize at Cannes Film Festiva

S a Russian film director. In 1990 Lungin was awarded the Best Director Prize at Cannes Film Festival for the film "Taxi Blues" starring Pyotr Mamonov. That same year he took up residence in France, while making films in and about Russia with French produ

Is a Polish-born, Oxford-based, BAFTA Award-winning filmmaker and academic. He garnered much acclaim

Is a Polish-born, Oxford-based, BAFTA Award-winning filmmaker and academic. He garnered much acclaim for his BAFTA Award-winning Last Resort which he wrote and directed in 2000 and My Summer of Love, loosely based on Helen Cross' novel, which also won a BAFTA and a string of other awards at festivals around the world.In the late 1980s and '90s Pawlikowski was best known for his documentaries, whose unique blend of lyricism and irony won him many fans and awards around the world. Moscow Pietushki was a poetic journey into the world of the Russian cult writer Venedikt Erofeev, for which he won Emmy and RTS Awards and others. The multi-award winning Dostoevsky's Travels was a tragi-comic road movie with a St Petersburg tram driver and the only living descendant of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Is a Danish film director, best known for his humorous music videos and commercials.Since 1996 he ha

Is a Danish film director, best known for his humorous music videos and commercials.Since 1996 he has directed over 400 commercials for international brands such as Kellogg's, Carlsberg, Lego, McDonald's, Bayer and Panasonic, as well as appr. 35 music videos for such bands as The Raveonettes, VETO, Superheroes and Aqua.

Is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almod

Is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almod

Is a Finnish film director. He has directed fifteen films since 1976. He co-directed Flame Top with

Is a Finnish film director. He has directed fifteen films since 1976. He co-directed Flame Top with Pirjo Honkasalo and the film was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Is an American director, producer, and screenwriter.

Is an American director, producer, and screenwriter.

Is a Danish film director, generally credited simply as Per Fly. He is currently married to Danish a

Is a Danish film director, generally credited simply as Per Fly. He is currently married to Danish actress Charlotte Fich. They have the children Anton and Aksel together.Plejdrup graduated from The National Film School of Denmark in 1993. His feature film debut was in 2000 with the movie Bænken (The Bench), which told the story of Kaj, a man whose life paths has led him into deep alcoholism. This film started the Denmark-trilogy, which portrayed situations and characters from the lower, upper and middle class of Denmark, in that order.

Is a Danish film director and the older sister of actor Stine Fischer Christensen. She started out i

Is a Danish film director and the older sister of actor Stine Fischer Christensen. She started out in the movie business when she was 20 years old as an assistant to Tómas Gislason. During that time, Gislason was closely connected to Lars von Trier, and she got to listen to Gislason and von Trier's discussions about movies. In 1993, she went to The European Film College where she met and collaborated with Nanna Arnfred.[1] In 1999,

Is a Danish film director.She graduated from the National Danish Film School in 1997. She is the dir

Is a Danish film director.She graduated from the National Danish Film School in 1997. She is the director of various documentary films for the screen and for television including Min morfar forfra, Repeating Grandpa (selected for Input 2002 at Rotterdam), and The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun, winner of the Joris Ivens competition at IDFA 2006.

Was most famous for being the director of the first Jamaican feature film, The Harder They Come (197

Was most famous for being the director of the first Jamaican feature film, The Harder They Come (1972), starring Jimmy Cliff.Henzell, whose ancestors included Huguenot glassblowers and an old English family who had made their fortune growing sugar on Anti

Was a Finnish film director and producer, comedian, humorist, TV personality and practitioner of gag

Was a Finnish film director and producer, comedian, humorist, TV personality and practitioner of gags.During his career he directed, wrote, produced or acted in about 50 movies and participated in numerous TV productions, including the comedy Spede Show and the game-show Speden Spelit. Spede Pasanen named Bob Hope as one his biggest comedy influences. Much of his more commercial work was in collaboration with Vesa-Matti Loiri (whose most popular character created by Pasanen was called Uuno Turhapuro; first in TV sketches and then in a long-lasting series of motion pictures) and Simo Salminen. Pasanen's films and TV shows, often made fast and inexpensively in a conveyor-belt mode, usually didn't gain much recognition from the critics but were extremely popular among Finnish audiences from the 1960s onwards.

Is a Finnish film director and screenwriter.Making film since 1992 he has written and directed films

Is a Finnish film director and screenwriter.Making film since 1992 he has written and directed films such as Helmiä ja sikoja in 2003 working with actors such as Mikko Leppilampi and Laura Birn.

Is a Dutch cameraman, film producer and director. He studied at the Film academy in Amsterdam and wo

Is a Dutch cameraman, film producer and director. He studied at the Film academy in Amsterdam and worked as a director of photography on many films and documentaries. De Kock made his directorial debut with the film The Hands of Che Guevara, a documentary about the severed hands of the Latin American guerrilla fighter Ernesto Che Guevara that were put in a jar of formaldehyde and disappeared from public view. The film was a success at many international film festivals.

Is a Dutch filmmaker.[1] Several of his films have heavily utilized found footage.

Is a Dutch filmmaker.[1] Several of his films have heavily utilized found footage.

Was a Danish photographer and film director known as the first film pioneer in Denmark when he began

Was a Danish photographer and film director known as the first film pioneer in Denmark when he began making documentary movies in 1897.He apprenticed in photography in Hillerød in 1893 with the photographer Carl Rathsack. He also studied with the camera builder Jens Poul Andersen. In 1893, Elfelt opened his own atelier in Copenhagen with his two brothers as his assistants.

Is a Danish film director.Peter Flinth was born on 7 November 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was ad

Is a Danish film director.Peter Flinth was born on 7 November 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was admitted to the National Film School of Denmark and in the same time wprked as an assistant director on a number of Danish feature films, including most notably Academy Award-nominated Dance of the Polar Bears and Ole Bornedal's Nightwatch,

Is an English film director born in WalesPeter Greenaway was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales,

Is an English film director born in WalesPeter Greenaway was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, and grew up in Essex, England, where he attend the prestigious Forest School in North-East London. His family left South Wales when he was three years old (they had moved there to begin with to avoid The Blitz).

Is a French film director and scriptwriter. He was born in Budapest, Hungary. He left the country at

Is a French film director and scriptwriter. He was born in Budapest, Hungary. He left the country at the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He is the father of film director Mathieu Kassovitz. He directed the film Jakob the Liar, starring Robin Williams in 1999.