Nicholas Broomfield is an English documentary film director. His self-reflective style has been regarded as influential to many later filmmakers. In the early 21st century, he began to use non-actors in scripted works, which he calls "Direct Cinema". His output ranges from studies of entertainers to political works such as examinations of South Africa before and after the end of apartheid and the rise of the black-majority government of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress party.
Simon Abkarian is a French-Armenian actor.
Simcha Jacobovici is an Israeli-Canadian journalist and documentary film maker.
Ustad Farida Mahwash ; (1947) is an Afghan singer and voice of Afghanistan. She was the first woman to have been conferred the honorary title of "Ustad" in 1977. She currently lives in Fremont, California, US; and tours the world with her latest all star ensemble Voices of Afghanistan.
Cinema was introduced in Afghanistan at the beginning of the 20th century. Political troubles slowed the indusry over the years. However, numerous Pashto and Dari films have been made both inside and outside Afghanistan throughout the 20th century. The cinema of Afghanistan entered a new phase in 2001, but has failed to recover to its popular pre-war status.
Lee Shapiro (1949–1987) was an American documentary filmmaker. His one feature-length film, Nicaragua Was Our Home, was released in 1986. It was filmed in Nicaragua among the Miskito Indians who were then fighting against Nicaraguan government forces. It features interviews with Miskito Indian people and some non-Miskito clergy who lived among them concerning actions of the government against them, including bombing of villages, shootings, and forced removal of people from their homes. The film was shown on some PBS stations and at the 1986 Sundance Film Festival.
Rodman Flender is an American actor, writer, director and producer.
Aviva Kempner is a German-born American filmmaker. Her documentaries investigate non-stereotypical images of Jews in history and focus on the untold stories of Jewish people. She is most well known for The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg.
Defamation is a 2009 documentary film by award-winning Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir. It examines antisemitism and, in particular, the way perceptions of antisemitism affect Israeli and U.S. politics. A major focus of the film is the Anti-Defamation League. Defamation won Best Documentary Feature Film at the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
Jacob Berger is a Swiss film director and screenwriter and actor. His 1991 film Angels was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.; his second motion picture A Loving Father (2002), reunited Gérard Depardieu and his son Guillaume Depardieu; That Day won Beast Director at the 2007 Montreal World Film Festival and "A Jew Must Die", his 2017 motion picture earned Bruno Ganz a Swiss Film Award for best actor.
Benoît Bringer is a French investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Paris, France. He is part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning ICIJ's Panama Papers team and director of "Panama Papers : The hold-up of the century", a two-hour documentary aired on France 2 TV investigative series Cash Investigation. He is also the director of "Obama's dirty war"" broadcast on Canal+, an investigation in Yemen and Pakistan on civilian casualties from US drone strikes. His film Primaire au PS : l'improbable scénario, a 90-minute documentary about the first political primary race in France, which aired on Canal+, was selected for FIPA, the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels, held in Biarritz, France. Bringer graduated from ESJ. He started his career as a reporter for the French public channel France 2.
Kaboul Kitchen is a French comedy television series broadcast by Canal+. It was created by Marc Victor, Allan Mauduit and Jean-Patrick Benes. The series is based on the true story of Radio France Internationale journalist Marc Victor, who ran a restaurant for French expatriates in Kabul until 2008. The first series premiered on February 15, 2012, on Canal+ and ended on March 5, 2012. It set a ratings record for comedy series in the primetime slot on Canal+. A second series of 12 episodes aired in France in 2014.
Naresh Bedi is an Indian filmmaker, the eldest of the Bedi Brothers and a member of the second generation of three generations of Wildlife photographers and filmmakers. He is the first Asian to receive a Wildscreen Panda Award and the first Indian to receive a nomination for the British Academy Film Awards. He was honoured by the Government of India in 2015 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.
Marquise Lepage, is a Canadian (Québécoise) producer, screenwriter, and film and television director. She is best known for her 1987 feature Marie in the City , for which she received a nomination for Best Director at the 9th Genie Awards in 1988. She was also a nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 14th Genie Awards in 1993 for Your Country, My Country . She was hired by the National Film Board (NFB) as a filmmaker in 1991. One of her first major projects for the NFB was The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché, a documentary about female cinema pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché.
Howard Ziehm is a retired American director, director of photography, producer and writer of adult movies.
Restoring Tomorrow is a 2017 documentary film directed by Aaron Wolf that recounts the history and the restoration of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles, California.
Serge Giguère is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. He is most noted as a two-time winner of the Prix Jutra/Iris for Best Documentary Film, winning at the 9th Jutra Awards in 2007 for Driven by Dreams and at the 17th Jutra Awards in 2015 for Finding Macpherson .
Christophe Julien is a French composer of film and television music, largely classical, twice-nominated for César Award for best original film music.
The Festival Vues dans la tête de... is a Canadian film festival, staged annually in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec. Held at the city's Cinéma Princesse over one weekend in February each year, the festival selects one filmmaker each year to serve as a patron and programmer; the festival typically opens with one of the lead filmmaker's own films, with the program for the rest of the weekend consisting of a selection of other narrative, documentary and short films by Quebec filmmakers, selected by the lead filmmaker to provide various perspectives on a theme of interest.
Hugo Latulippe is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Quebec, most noted as codirector of the 2004 film What Remains of Us and solo director of the 2012 film Alphée of the Stars .
