But filmmaker Akrami isn't as optimistic.

Ophelia is a photographer and a filmmaker.

Global Voices Online talked to the filmmaker.

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Chris Joseph Columbus (born September 10, 1958) is an American filmmaker.

Saudi filmmaker Mazen Al Angary shares this documentary about Ramadan in Jeddah.

Gillo Pontecorvo ( 19 November 1919 12 October 2006) was an Italian filmmaker.

Sebastian Meyer, an award winning photographer and filmmaker, produced this video for Ensia.

A German filmmaker, Alexander Kluge, is promising to turn Das Kapital into a movie.

The film is a great influence to music video director and filmmaker Michel Gondry.

Werner Herzog, the German filmmaker said, I need to make movies like you need oxygen.

Joseph Leonard Gordon Levitt ( born February 17, 1981) is an American actor, singer, and filmmaker.

Giovanni Brass (born 26 March 1933), better known as Tinto Brass, is an Italian filmmaker.

Don t people in Gaza love to see films like people anywhere? aspiring filmmaker Hossam Abdel Latif asks.

They moved to Los Angeles, where he hoped to make a name for himself as a filmmaker.

Watch as Syrian filmmaker Eyad Aljarod films Saraqeb's children, Muslims and Christians, celebrate Christmas and share their dreams

Fahrenheit 9 11 is a 2004 documentary film by American filmmaker and director and political commentator Michael Moore.

The film brought Moore international attention as a rising filmmaker and won numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature, a special 55th Anniversary Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, and the César Award for Best Foreign Film.

Filmmaker Newton Aduaka shows clips from his powerful, lyrical feature film Ezra, about a child soldier in Sierra Leone.

I'm Jon M. Chu. And I'm not a dancer, I'm not a choreographer I'm actually a filmmaker, a storyteller.

Filmmaker Andrew Stanton shares what he knows about storytelling starting at the end and working back to the beginning.

Akrami says as an Iranian filmmaker your most prized skill is the ability to work around the censorship codes.

Isabelle The filmmaker Georges Méliès was one of the first to realize that films had the power to capture dreams.

Pakistani Canadian journalist and documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, recently won an Oscar award for the best documentary (short) film.

Journalist Lisa Katayama and filmmaker Jason Wishnow are documenting the lives of people dealing with radiation in a post earthquake Japan.

While shooting a documentary in Cambodia, filmmaker Roberto Serrini found time to visit several urban and rural villages in the country.

Filmmaker Naji Jerf is the fourth Syrian netizen associated with the news collective Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently to be killed.

Meanwhile Mahdi Kouhian, a documentary filmmaker in Iran, says since the election of Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani, there is a more positive atmosphere.

A foreign language film from Africa has a tough road ahead for it in terms getting to an audience, filmmaker Mehret Mandefro admits.

Syrian filmmaker Naji Jerf was shot and killed in broad daylight in Gaziantep, Turkey, close to the Syrian border on December 27, 2015.

This video was produced, filmed and edited for Ensia by Emily Kinskey, a documentary filmmaker and multimedia journalist currently based in Erbil, Iraq.

Egyptian TV presenter and filmmaker Mohammed Said Mahfouz, who is also the festival jury president, expressed his admiration for the opening movie and wrote

Filmmaker Deborah Scranton talks about and shows clips from her documentary The War Tapes, which puts cameras in the hands of soldiers fighting in Iraq.

In the long history of Spanish cinema, the great filmmaker Luis Buñuel was the first to achieve world recognition, followed by Pedro Almodóvar in the 1980s.

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Jarreth Merz, a Swiss Ghanaian filmmaker, came to Ghana in 2008 to film the national elections. What he saw there taught him new lessons about democracy and about himself.

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