Léa Pool C.M. is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who also teaches film at UQAM. She has directed several feature films, including Anne Trister (1986) and Set Me Free (Emporte-moi) (1999), both of which screened at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival, where the latter won the Special Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.
Henry Bean is an American screenwriter, film director, film producer, novelist, and actor.
David Riker is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his award-winning film The City, a neo-realist film about the plight of Latin American immigrants living in New York City. Riker is also the writer and director of The Girl (2012), and the co-writer of the films Sleep Dealer (2008) and Dirty Wars (2013).
Christopher Münch is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.
Cary Joji Fukunaga is an American filmmaker and television director.
Roger Ross Williams is an American director, producer and writer and the first African American director to win an Oscar, with his short film Music by Prudence.
Benjamin Odell is an American writer, director and producer of independent films.
Chris Sparling is an American screenwriter, director, and producer from Providence, Rhode Island.
Alan Jacobs is an American independent film director, screenwriter and producer. His films have been acquired by major distributors, including Miramax and Columbia Pictures and have been invited to several major festivals, including Sundance and Toronto. His career began at Apple Inc., where he was the in-house filmmaker. Jacobs is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the Stanford Business School.
Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen is a Nigerian film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Mike Cahill is an American film director and screenwriter.
Ben York Jones is an American screenwriter and film actor best known for writing and co-starring in Like Crazy (2011) which won the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
Damien Sayre Chazelle is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his films Whiplash (2014), La La Land (2016), and First Man (2018). For La La Land, he received several accolades, including the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Director; making him the youngest person to win either award at age 32.
Andrew Ahn is an American film director who has directed the feature films Spa Night (2016) and Driveways (2019).
Alexis Dos Santos is an Argentine film director and producer, screenwriter and editor. He has also shot a number of short and directed music videos. He is considered part of the New Queer Cinema movement.
Talal Derki is a Syrian Kurdish director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Damascus and of Kurdish descent, Derki studied film directing in Athens at Stavrako High Institute of Cinematographic Art and Television, graduation in 2003. He worked as an assistant director for feature film productions and was a director for different Arab TV programs & TV films between 2009 and 2012. He worked as a freelance cameraman for CNN and Thomson Reuters. Talal Derki’s short films and documentaries received awards at a variety of festivals. His feature documentary Return to Homs has won the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Grand Jury Prize. In 2014 he was a member of the international Jury at IDFA. Talal Derki lives now in Berlin, Germany.
Brian R. Etting is an American producer, director, and screenwriter known for producing Broken, Funny or Die, A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, and Relative Strangers starring Danny DeVito. He also executive produced Drunk History: Douglass & Lincoln which won Best Short Film at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Etting also owns his own production company with Josh Etting called Garlin Pictures.
Alejandro Landes Echavarría is a Colombian-Ecuadorian film director, producer, screenwriter, and journalist. He is mainly known for directing Spanish-language films such as Porfirio, a Colombian drama that was based on a true story, and the documentary Cocalero about Evo Morales's successful presidential campaign in Bolivia.
Sebastián Hofmann is a Mexican visual artist and filmmaker whose productions have been presented in the film festivals of Rotterdam, Locarno, Sundance, Fantastic Fest, La Habana, among others. He is also the co-founder of the production and distribution company Piano.
Derek Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American filmmaker and playwright best known for his 2016 feature film The Housemaid , which was shot in Vietnam and produced by CJ E&M Film Division, HKFilm, and Timothy Linh Bui.
