Jessica Gorter has been working as an independent filmmaker focusing on post-Soviet Russia since graduating from the Dutch Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam.

She directs documentaries for Dutch television and works as an editor, script writer and coach. Her films are shown at film festiva...

Honored by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture as the first black women to direct a documentary film, Madeline Anderson’s landmark films ‘Integration Report 1’ (1960) and ‘I Am Somebody’ (1970), both newly scanned and digitized by the museum, bring viewers to t...

Born in 1968, Julie Bertuccelli studied philosophy and then worked for around ten years as a director’s assistant on numerous feature films, TV films and shorts, with Otar Iosseliani, Rithy Panh, Krysztof Kieslowski, Emmanuel Finkiel, Bertrand Tavernier, Jean-Louis Bertuccelli, Christian de Chalo...

Lynne Sachs makes films, installations, performances and web projects that explore the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences by weaving together poetry, collage, painting, politics and layered sound design. Strongly committed to a dialogue between...

Rehad Desai is a former political exile from South Africa, who returned to his home country in 1990. He runs his own film and television company, Uhuru Productions, which produces documentary and dramatic works.

Desai is known for his uncompromising approach both to TV and cinema, and is one of ...

Born in Kisangani, the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1984, he studied medicine and then attended several documentary workshops. In 2013, he made his feature-length debut with Atalaku. The film Congo in Four Acts, to which he contributed, as well as his films Mama Colonel and Kinshasa Makamb...

Tatiana Huezo Sánchez was born January 9, 1972 in San Salvador. She grew up in Mexico City and graduated from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC), before earning her Master’s degree in Documentary Filmmaking at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She directed several acclaim...

lIan Ziv was born in Israel in 1950 and came to the United States after fighting in the Yom Kippur (October) War in 1973. Ziv is a graduate of New York University film school and in 1978 he co-produced New York's first Middle East Film Festival. That same year he co-founded Icarus Films, a docume...

Radu Jude (Romania, 1977) graduated from the filmmaking department of Media University in 2003. He directed a series of short films, including The Tube with a Hat (2006) (winner of more than 50 international prizes at Sundance, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Uppsala etc.) and Alexandra (2007).

His ...

Born in Malaysia in 1957, Tsai Ming-liang is one of the most prominent film directors of the new cinema movement in Taiwan. OVID is proud to present two of his films, Rebels of the Neon God and The Hole.

Jacquot began his career as an assistant director in films by Marguerite Duras, including Nathalie Granger (1972) and India Song (1975). He began his writing and directing career with The Musician Killer (1976) and has since gone on to direct more than forty films, including Farewell, My Queen an...

MARK KITCHELL is a veteran documentary filmmaker, known for social histories of social change movements:

· Berkeley in the Sixties, Academy Award nominee and winner of top honors, has become a well-loved classic, one of the defining films about the protest movements that shook America during ...

Claude Chabrol was born on June 24, 1930 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, and worked as a film critic for Cahiers du cinéma before becoming a filmmaker. He was known as France's equivalent to Alfred Hitchcock and was considered the most accessible of the New Wave directors. He died...

Claire Denis is a French director and screenwriter, renowned for films including Chocolat, Beau Travail, Trouble Every Day, 35 Shots of Rum, and Bastards. Born in Paris, Claire Denis lived in a number of African countries until the age of 12. She began her professional life in the cinema as assis...

Celebrated photographer, photojournalist, and documentary filmmaker, Raymond Depardon was born in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France on July 6, 1942. His interest in photography began when he started taking pictures of his family’s farm at the age of 12. A prolific artist, Raymond Depardon has so far...

The Swiss artists Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012), hailed by The New York Times as "the merry pranksters of contemporary art" and by ARTNews as "the best thing in Swiss art since Alberto Giacometti," worked as a creative duo starting in 1979. Their collaboration included scu...

Debra Granik is the Academy Award nominated Director and co-writer of Winter’s Bone, which was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture, and won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Granik and co-writer Anne Rosellini were Oscar-nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay. ...

Werner Herzog was born in Munich on September 5, 1942. He grew up in a remote mountain village in Bavaria and studied History and German Literature in Munich and Pittsburgh. He made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature-...

Born in 1988 in China, Hu Bo graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 2014 with a B.F.A. degree in directing. His short film Distant Father (2014) won Best Director at Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival, and Night Runner (2014) was selected by Taipei Golden Horse Film Academy. His debut feature An ...

The only Japanese director to twice win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Shohei Imamura has been described by The New York Times as "one of the most significant Japanese filmmakers of the postwar generation." Imamura began his career as an assistant to legendary director Yasujiro Ozu, ...

Hu Jie is an independent historian, artist, and filmmaker. Born in Jinan, Shandong in 1958, he graduated from the Art College of the People’s Liberation Army. He works in oils and woodcuts from his lakeside studio in Nanjing. His films are among the most important documents of China’s unacknowled...

Aaron Katz was born in rainy Portland, OR. In high school he became interested in film and acting. When he realized that he wasn’t a very good actor, he decided to go to film school at North Carolina School of the Arts. Immediately after graduation he and two of his college roommates drove a 1963...

Anne Makepeace has been a writer, producer, and director of award-winning independent films for more three decades. Her new film, Tribal Justice, premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in February 2017 and screened at many festivals across the country, winning Best Documentary...

Moffatt is an Australian photographer and filmmaker. After graduating from Queensland College of Art, Brisbane (1982), she moved to Sydney, later dividing her time between Sydney and New York. Moffatt began her career as an experimental filmmaker and as a producer of music videos, and she continu...