Mila Turajlic is a documentary filmmaker born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Her most recent film, a documentary diptych Scenes from the Labudović Reels: Non-Aligned and Ciné-Guerrillas premiered at the Toronto IFF and IDFA in 2022. Her previous film, The Other Side of Everything premiered at the Toro...

Director, producer, writer and cinematographer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter was born in Vienna, Austria in 1972. Geyrhalter's static-camera, well-paced observational films tackle their subjects head-on, whether it's exploring the terrain in Chernobyl, Ukraine (Pripyat), tracing the route of the Dakar Ral...

OVID is proud to present this retrospective of the films of Eugenio Polgovsky (1977-2017). He studied film directing and cinematography at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico City and his first documentary, Tropic of Cancer, screened during the International Critics’ Week at Cann...

Pirjo Honkasalo was born in Helsinki in 1947. She entered film school at the age of 17 and completed her cinematographic thesis at the age of 21. Her first major directing role, the historical drama film Tulipää (Flame Top), was chosen for the Cannes Official Selection series in 1980. As a docume...

Born in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, to radical political activist parents, John Akomfrah was widely recognized as one of the most influential figures of black British culture in the 1980s. An artist, lecturer, and writer as well as a filmmaker, his twenty-year body of work is among the most distinctiv...

Born in Suffolk on 19 August 1907, Humphrey Jennings is widely considered one of Britain’s greatest documentary filmmakers, directing films which beautifully evoke everyday heroism in times of war and peace. He created WWII propaganda films that were also art, and his best films were done between...

In 1976, after making a six-month trip through North and West Africa, Su Friedrich moved to New York to pursue her work in photography, both as a photojournalist and an art photographer. In 1977, she attended a super 8 filmmaking course taught by David Lee at the Millennium Film Workshop. It only...

A natural extension of his discursive criticism, poetry, and painting, Wayne Koestenbaum's filmic forays are poetic and mesmeric, and sometimes deliriously farcical. His luxuriously lo-fi monologues drip with spontaneous wit and slippery eroticism. His stop-motion animations with improvised piano...

Roberta Cantow is a filmmaker and storyteller. She received a N.Y. area Emmy for her film Clotheslines about the symbolic and artistic role of laundry in women’s lives. Her films and videos have garnered several Best of Category citations in film festivals around the country as well as an Award o...

Terence Davies was an English screenwriter and film director. He was the sole screenwriter of all his films, and his films were often at least partially autobiographical.

After the success of his short- to medium-length film series The Terence Davies Trilogy, Terence wrote and directed his criti...

Wang Bing is a leading light of contemporary international documentary filmmaking. Acclaimed by critics and recognized as one of the most important Chinese artists and filmmakers of his time, his work has garnered awards and international praise at film festivals including the Berlin and Cannes F...

Mark Cousins is a Northern Irish-Scottish filmmaker and writer. At the start of his career he directed TV documentaries on childhood, neo-Nazism and military training. His first book was Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary (“Indispensible” -Times Literary Supplement). His 2004 book T...

Born in 1941, Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz was one of the most innovative and versatile filmmakers in international cinema. The free-spirited Ruiz was unafraid to experiment in a variety of genres, including documentaries; he was also prolific and during his twenty year career has made over 50 fil...

Born in Weehawken, New Jersey in 1948, Arthur MacCaig directed and produced documentary films starting in 1978.

He produced numerous reports for the television service of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, and was the founder of DATHANNA, an independent productio...

Heddy Honigmann (1951-2022), a child of Holocaust survivors, was born in Peru, where she studied biology and literature at the University of Lima. She left in 1973, traveled throughout Mexico, Israel, Spain and France, and later studied film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. S...

“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...

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...

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...