Salomé Jashi (Tbilisi, 1981) is a documentary filmmaker and producer from Georgia. She has been attracted to filming micro environments from the very beginning of her career. Her visual approach is minimalist, poetical, sensitive and rough.

Salomé Jashi's Taming the Garden (2021) premiered at ...

François Ozon was born in Paris in 1967. After directing numerous successful short films in the '80s and '90s, he segued to feature films.

A prolific director, he has kept the pace of directing a film a year for over two decades. Best known for SWIMMING POOL starring Ludivine Sagnier and the cri...

“The most inventive and influential British art-filmmaker of his generation!” —The Washington Post

Derek Jarman (1942-1994) was one of Britain’s most visionary and extraordinary film artists. Often in collaboration with actress and muse Tilda Swinton (2007 Oscar Winner for Michael Clayton), Jarm...

Before becoming a filmmaker, Francois Reichenbach (1921 – 1993) was an accomplished songwriter who composed songs for performers such as Edith Piaf. Encouraged by his cousin, the producer Pierre Braunberger, he turned to directing, becoming a prolific documentary filmmaker and leader of the ciném...

Alice Arnold is a documentary media maker and educator. She creates, edits, designs, writes and photographs projects that explore the urban environment and visual culture — from street art to consumerism and sustainability, from faces to sidewalks and lighting fixtures. Her films are in the colle...

"Rouch has remained a cinephile secret for decades... Much of his work has been unavailable in the U.S. — until now." —IndieWire

Jean Rouch's (1917–2004) breakthrough work in cinéma vérité in the 1960's helped inspire the direct cinema movement in the U.S. and the New Wave in France where he was...

Denis Côté (born November 16, 1973) is an independent filmmaker and producer living in Quebec, Canada. He studied film at Collège Ahuntsic in Montreal and founded nihilproductions around 1994. In 2005, his first feature film, Les états nordiques (Drifting States), won the Golden Leopard – Video a...

Brad is an award-winning filmmaker who has been making documentaries since 1998 and founded 371 Productions in 2003. His recent film, When Claude Got Shot (produced with Stick Figure) premiered at the 2021 SXSW film festival and won the 2022 Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. H...

A preeminent filmmaker of the American left, Robert Kramer was a significant presence in the independent film movement of the 1960's. Born in 1939, he grew up in New York City and went on to study philosophy and western European history at Swarthmore College and Stanford University. By the time h...

Mike Ott studied under Thom Andersen at Cal Arts where he received his MFA degree in Film/Video and started out directing music videos for such bands as Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Blood Brothers and The Cave Singers. Mike’s second feature, LITTLEROCK, won numerous awards, including the Audien...

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Born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve on July 29, 1921 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, Chris Marker was a cinematic essayist and audio-visual poet.

After the Second World War, Marker began as a writer, publishing his first book in 1949. In the 1950s he turned to document...

OVID is proud to present two films by Paul Negoescu, a Romanian director, screenwriter and producer. In a review of TWO LOTTERY TICKETS, the New York Times wrote, "He gives the film fresh zest with droll observations and pitifully endearing characters — all while poking meta fun at the austere Ro...

Alexandre Rockwell began his ascent to cult-stardom when his 1992 film In The Soup took home the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, beating out, among others, Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs. Since then he’s grown his following with a series of critically-acclaimed films, including Four ...

Born in 1953, Moretti as an actor, director, producer, distributor and exhibitor has been a leading figure in the Italian independent film scene since the 1970s. His breakthrough international success was Caro Diary (My Diary) which won the Best Director prize at Cannes in 1994, and his stature a...

In 2012, Mingming directed, shot, and starred in her short debut film, Female Directors. Blurring boundaries, it showcased her ability to combine a quasi documentary film with a fictional plot. Female Directors screened widely at film festivals and the Vancouver International Film Festival called...

A chance meeting in Havana with legendary Cuban film propagandist Santiago Alvarez changed the course of Travis Wilkerson’s life. Over the last 20 years, he has made over 15 films, writing, shooting, editing, acting, and performing the voice-over. He makes films about history, politics, and (most...

Marcel Ophuls was born on November 1, 1927 in Frankfurt, Germany. Having become a French citizen in 1938, his father, filmmaker Max Ophuls, left France with his family during the Occupation to escape Nazi persecution.

That is why Marcel Ophuls spent a portion of his formative years in the United...

Born in 1955 in Kobe, Kiyoshi Kurosawa made his feature film directorial debut in 1983 with Kandagawa Wars. He attracted global attention with Cure (1997), following it with notable works License to Live (1998), Barren Illusion (1999), and Charisma (1999). Pulse was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize at ...

In the late '90s, Xiaogang Feng emerged as one of Asia’s most successful commercial directors for his black comedies about the lives of common people in a rapidly changing China. In the past 15 years, his films have become more ambitious and have pushed the boundaries of Chinese cinema. He is oft...

Marc Allégret was a French director and photographer, born on December 23, 1900 in Basel and died on November 3, 1973 in Paris.

In addition to film directing, he had a passion for discovering new talent. With an expert eye, he helped start the careers of future stars including Brigitte Bardot, S...

Born October 2, 1919 in New York, Shirley Brimberg Clarke studied dance as a teenager. After marrying and having a daughter, Clarke turned her talents to cinema, becoming an esteemed filmmaker at a time when few women worked in the field. For her first feature, Clarke took on an acclaimed and con...

Charles Burnett is a writer-director whose work has received extensive honors. Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, his family soon moved to the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. Burnett studied creative writing at UCLA before entering the University’s graduate film program. His thesis project, Kille...

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze was a French actor, critic, screenwriter, and director. In 1951, Doniol-Valcroze was a co-founder of the renowned film magazine Cahiers du cinéma, along with André Bazin and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca. The magazine was initially edited by Doniol-Valcroze between 1951-1957. As cr...

Born in New York, 1924, Rogosin was influenced early by the film, All Quiet on the Western Front, and a few years later by the films of Flaherty and De Sica. Graduating from Yale, with a degree in chemical engineering, he volunteered to serve in the Navy during World War II. In 1954 he resigned f...