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50 Best Contemporary Filmmakers. by patrickcrawford24 | created - 14 Apr 2015 | updated - 14 Apr 2015 | Public. Criteria: Have directed films in the last ten years. On recent form/potential... Sort by: View: 50 names. 1. David Lynch. Writer | Twin Peaks.
Dec 10, 2021 · 1. Bong Joon-ho. Photograph: Shutterstock. How many filmmakers have their own hive? The South Korean master does: the devotee and ever-swelling, #BongHive.
Jan 17, 2018 · 1. Ana Lily Amirpour. Watching Ana Lily Amirpour’s films, one can’t help but feel in danger. It’s there in the title of her feature debut: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, about a vampire...
Feb 24, 2015 · His most recent film, for example, Blue Jasmine (2013), gave Cate Blanchet an Oscar for best performance in a leading role. The use of subtitles in Annie Hall (1977) and split screen became an instant signature to his directing style.
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Actor-turned-director Greta Gerwig made a name for herself in the film industry by appearing in and writing mumblecore films, meaning low-budget films characterised by naturalistic and improv dialogue. Gerwig’s first directed film was Nights and Weekends, a story about a long-distance relationship. Gerwig’s second directed feature, LadyBird, is one...
This French-American filmmaker began his career in 2009 with his independent musical Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench. After writing two horror thrillers, Chazelle wrote and directed Whiplash, a psychological drama showing music schools’ darker side. Miles Tiller stars as an aspiring student under J.K. Simmons’ challenging mentor. Whiplashhad a med...
Noah Baumbach’s features include The Squid and the Whale, an independent comedy-drama that follows two boys dealing with their parent’s divorce. Baumbach made the film with a £1.5 million budget and a super 16 mm camera he held, having been inspired by French New Wave. This approach resulted in a niche style that portrays a grounded story reflected...
Another veteran of the mumblecore genre was Lynn Shelton, an American filmmaker known for writing and directing films such as Humpday and Your Sister’s Sister, the latter being made from a budget of $120,000 and grossing $3.2 million. Just shows what a well-made indie film can make of its roots. Shelton also directed the A24 comedy Laggies, which s...
This directing duo changed ideas of filmmaking from a budget of $200,000 and no expert equipment. The Blair Witch Projectfollows the story of three students who head into an alleged haunted woods to document the legend of the local Blair witch. The film is shot as found footage using a Hi8 camcorder due to its low budget and was the most impactful ...
The daughter of Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola made her directorial debut with the 1999 coming-of-age drama The Virgin Suicides, establishing a different filmmaking path to that of her father. This film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival before undergoing a limited release in theatres. The Virgin Suicides was shot on a bu...
This director is most known for writing and directing the 2012 fantasy drama Beasts of the Southern Wild. Following a six-year-old girl’s quest to find her lost mother, this film premiered at numerous film festivals before a limited release. Beasts of the Southern Wild was made from a budget of $1.8 million and surpassed it by grossing $2.3 million...
Barry Jenkins directed his first film, My Josephene, in 2003, followed by Medicine for Melancholy in 2008. This independent romantic drama had its premiere at SXSW, distributed by the independent company IFC Films. Medicine for Melancholy employs an unconventional use of colour to execute its values, such as the film being edited in black-and-white...
This filmmaker and cinematographer was awarded the John Cassevetes Award, given to the creative team of a film budgeted at less than $500,000, in 2013 for Blue Ruins. This film was funded by a Kickstarter campaign and premiered at Cannes, proving that low-budget non-studio films have all the potential of studio films when narrative and style are ut...
Cited as the pioneer of indie filmmaking, John Cassavattes revolutionised DIY filmmaking. His film Faceswas shot in his own house with his friends on a grainy 16 mm film stock with handheld movement. The film defies Hollywood standards and conventions through its consistent close-ups, awkward yet realistic dialogue and a fly-on-the-wall naturalisti...
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