List of Filmmakers

Rainer Kaufmann is a German film director. He directed more than thirty films including The Pharmacist and Operation Zucker, a film about human trafficking.

Fernando Arrabal Terán is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet. He was born in Melilla and settled in France in 1955. Regarding his nationality, Arrabal describes himself as "desterrado", or "half-expatriate, half-exiled".

Gayatri Das known professionally as Geetu Mohandas is an Indian film actress and director known for her works in Malayalam cinema and Bollywood. In 2013, she directed the socio political film Liar's Dice which has received two National Film Awards, was premiered at Sundance Film Festival, and was chosen by the Government of India as India's entry for the U.S. 87th Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, but was not shortlisted or nominated.

Maria Schrader is a German actress, screenwriter, and director. She directed the award-winning 2007 film Love Life that was based on a novel by Zeruya Shalev and the 2020 Netflix miniseries Unorthodox, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series. She also starred in the German international hit TV series Deutschland 83 (2015), known for being the first German-language series broadcast on US television.

John Erman is an American television and film director, actor and producer.

Yuri Mamin is a Soviet and Russian film director, stage director, screenwriter, composer, author and television host, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation. His "Window to Paris" (1993) remains one of the most popular movies in Russia. His Buddhist-themed film "Don't Think About White Monkeys" (2008) is popular among the Russian noncomformist youth, including punks and rockers.

Stuart Urban is a British film and television director.

Umin Boya, also known as Ma Chih-hsiang, is a Taiwanese aborigine writer, director and actor, and director of the historical baseball film Kano (2014). He also starred in Wei Te-sheng's Seediq Bale (2011).

Alessandro D'Alatri is an Italian film director, screenwriter and former actor.

Lizzie Borden is an American filmmaker, and is best known for the 1983 film Born in Flames.