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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Kevin Rafferty (1947-2020) studied architecture at Harvard University and film at the California Institute of the Arts. A cinematographer, director and producer, he directed only six films, but influenced a generation of filmmakers, including Michael Moore.

OVID is proud to present two of his fi...

Alain Resnais (1922-2014) has been recognized as one of the leading post-World War II artists of French cinema. He rose to prominence in the mid-1950s with the release of his powerful documentary, NIGHT AND FOG (1955), which provided an unprecedented look at the Nazi concentration camps and drew ...