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Don Hertzfeldt In 2012, Hertzfeldt edited together all three chapters of his short film trilogy to create a seamless new feature film out of the story.
Jack ClaytonHis first feature was the internationally acclaimed Room at the Top (1959), a harsh indictment of the British class system that has been credited with spearheading Britain's movement toward realism in films ; in fact it inaugurated a series of realist films known as the British New Wave, which featured, for that time, unusually sincere treatments of sexual mores and introduced a new maturity into British cinema.
Fran?ois WeyergansHe soon began to write for Cahiers du cinéma and directed his first film in 1961, on Maurice Béjart, which led to his expulsion from the school as students were banned from making professional films.
Alejandro JodorowskyMoving to Paris in the early 1950s, Jodorowsky studied mime under Étienne Decroux before turning to cinema, directing the short film Les têtes interverties in 1957.
Kathleen Bryson In early 2002, Bryson wrote the screenplay for the feature film The Viva Voce Virus, which she co-directed with Finnish director Kimmo Moykky, a surreal time-travel thriller about the Hollywood closeting system.
Olivier AssayasHe made his debut in 1986, after directing some short films and writing for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma.
Michel Montecrossa Michel Montecrossa then started to work as a film producer and completed in 1969 his landmark film' The Great Archetype', which he conceived in a style similar to the consciousness-stream approach of James Joyce.
Alanis Obomsawin Obomsawin directed her first documentary for the NFB, Christmas at Moose Factory, in 1971.
Rajesh KhannaThe BBC made a film on him, titled Bombay Superstar, in 1974, the shooting for which began the same time when he got married and his film Daag premiered.
Miguel Gaud?ncioAs his commercial work continued to go from strength to strength, Miguel directed his second 30-minute feature, a taught psycho-sexual thriller, Same Room Same Time, in 2006.
Ashiq KhanRecently, Ashiq Khan was assistant director, production assistant and actor in a Doha Film Institute Music Video ` Nomadination - AshwinRenju' And the Nomadination Music Video Screening and the ` 2011 Doha Tribeca Film Festival volunteers' video to promote volunteerism.
Eiz? SugawaSugawa re-teamed with producer Kaneko on his second film Yajū Shisu Beshi (1959), which was lauded as a Japanese answer to the French New Wave and starred Tatsuya Nakadai, who was in between shooting the second and third installments of Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Condition.
Luis Armando RocheDuring that time he made his first short film : Genevilliers, port of Paris (1964), a documentary focused on one port of Paris.
Renen SchorrAs a screenwriter and script editor, Schorr wrote the screenplays for his short films, served as a script consultant to Uri Zohar, and had a part in writing the screenplays for Paratroopers (1977, directed by Judd Ne’eman).
Ashiq KhanHAMOUR'' is a Short Film featuring Ashiq Khan as its production assistant, which has been selected for the Gulf Film Festival 2012, Dubai.''
Paul FejosIn 1934 Fejos moved to Denmark and made three films for the Nordisk Films company : a light comedy in 1934 called Flight of the millions (Fluten fra millioerne), a farce about a world where there are no prisoners or police officers called Prisoner Number 1 (Frange Nr.
Mariano Idelman Idelman began his career starring in Eretz Nehederet in 2003, along with Eli Finish, Tal Friedman, Asi Cohen, Orna Banai, Eyal Kitzis, etc.
Tom TykwerHe was approached by French producers to film a short contribution to Paris, je t' aime (2006), a film comprising 20 short films by many famous directors depicting love in Paris.
Gary D. RoachOn Eastwood's next film, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), Roach was an assistant editor and became part of Eastwood's regular editing crew alongside Joel Cox.
Michael Arias In 2007 Arias began work on Heaven's Door, a Japanese live-action feature film loosely based on the German hit Knockin' on Heaven's Door directed by Thomas Jahn and written by Jahn and actor Til Schweiger.
Sergiu NicolaescuNicolaescu's debut as a director was in 1962 with the short film Scoicile nu au vorbit niciodată (Shells Have Never Spoken).
Charlie BuhlerIn 2013, She began production on her first narrative short, Aegis, a film she co-produced with frequent collaborator Katherine Walczak.
Paula HerediaIn 2005, with partner and husband Larry Garvin, she founded Heredia Pictures, LLC, which produced Africa Rising, a film about the work of five activists leading a grassroots movement of end female genital mutilation in Africa.
DeeyahSince early 2009 she has been directing and producing Banaz : A Love Story, a documentary film about honour killing s.
Eduardo CondorcetIn 1999, he spent a period of time in Berlin where he directed the films Diagnose, a gruesome dark comedy and Flaschendrehen, a short film about a family hiding the truth from itself.
Peter CliftonIn 1974 he was planning to shoot a reggae film in Jamaica when he was approached by Led Zeppelin's manager, Peter Grant, to complete their concert film.
John ParishHe also began working as a film composer in 1998, writing the score for Belgian director Patrice Toye's debut film, Rosie.
Rozz WilliamsHe also co-directed and scored Pig, a 1998 experimental psychological horror silent short film with underground film maker Nico B.
Raffaele Monti Graduated in TV and Cinema at the Roma Tre University with maximum grades, Raffaele Monti wrote, produced, directed and played his first short movie, On the life (Sulla vita), as his thesis in 2004.
Tony Martin (comedian)Having worked in radio and amateur theatre back in NZ, Martin approached the ABCTV's The D-Generation in 1986 to work as a writer only to be told that filming on the first series had been completed.
Quentin Lee Flow (1996) was Lee's first feature film, which focused on a gay filmmaker talking about his work to an unseen friend behind a camera, and then became a series of films within a film, as the audience is then shown four of the filmmaker's short films.
John HeyerHe also made commercials, training films and documentaries, his first documentary being New Pastures (1940) for the Milk Board.
Roger Deakins Deakins' first feature film in America as a cinematographer was Mountains of the Moon (1990).
James PeniataIn early 2009 James went on to work behind the scenes in the camera and electrical department for Next Door to the Velinsky's, an Australian psychological thriller.
Andrew BirkinBy the summer of 1966, Kubrick had promoted Birkin to Assistant Director on Special Effects ; Birkin later proposed the shooting and colour transposition of aerial footage for the' Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite' sequence, some of which he filmed from a helicopter over Scotland.
Christine Fugate Fugate began her career in 1990 as French director Barbet Schroeder's assistant for the film, Single White Female.
Lee Sung-gangHe started his career as an animator in 1995 by directing numerous animated short film s such as Soul, Lovers, Umbrella, and Ashes in the Thicket.
David CronenbergSince 1988's Dead Ringers, Cronenberg has worked with cinematographer Peter Suschitzky on each of his films (see List of noted film director and cinematographer collaborations).
Bob Citron 1964 -- present Citron began making films in 1964 while living in Africa and founded a film production company, Limpopo Films Ltd., which produced a series of documentary and travel films for television.
Lotte ReinigerIn 1923, she was approached by Louis Hagen, who had bought a large quantity of raw film stock as an investment to fight the spiraling inflation of the period, who asked her to do a feature length animated film.
Louis LeterrierIn 2008, as part of the current wave of the French directors employed in Hollywood, he directed his first big-budget American film, The Incredible Hulk.
Jacques LeducIn 1965 he began working as both Director and Cinematographer ; his first film as director was a documentary short entitled Chantal en vrac.
Claude ChabrolIn 1957 Chabrol and Eric Rohmer co-wrote Hitchcock (Paris : Éditions Universitaires, 1957), a study of the films made by director Alfred Hitchcock through the film The Wrong Man.
Andrew Paterson (photographer) Believed to be one of the earliest narrative films made in Scotland, and almost certainly the first to be made in the Highlands, Andrew Paterson used the natural setting of the coast at North Kessock to make a silent movie involving smugglers, which premiered in the Central Hall Picture House, Academy Street, Inverness, on 29 June 1913.
Melanie Rodriga Rodriga's first feature length film Trial Run (1984), starred Annie Whittle and was edited by Finola Dwyer.
Chuck NorrisIn 1972, he acted as Lee's nemesis in the movie Way of the Dragon (titled Return of the Dragon in its U. S. distribution), which is widely credited with launching him toward stardom.
Frank TashlinTashlin began his career directing feature films when he was asked to finish directing the 1951 film The Lemon Drop Kid starring Bob Hope.
Jonas Pate In 1996, Pate started his career by writing and directing the thriller film called The Grave with his brother Josh.
Andrey BatychkoAfter graduating from school in 2004, he directed several independent projects and music videos.
Karen MokMok is often credited as'' Karen Mok'' in Chinese and Hong Kong films, but as'' Karen Joy Morris'' (her birth name) in Hollywood productions such as Around the World in 80 Days (2004).
Natalie GumedeIn 2008, she featured in her first full length film, Clubbed, a British drama about a 1980s factory worker who takes up a job as a club doorman.
Michael BindlechnerIn 1993 Michael Bindlechner founded the production company FRAMES filmproduction in Vienna and produced and directed the feature film IN HEAVEN (In Heaven (film)).
Verna Fields Fields' career as a film editor commenced in 1960, when the director Irving Lerner recruited her to be the editor of the film Studs Lonigan ; Fields and Lerner had both worked on The Savage Eye.
Christian Becker After working in the film business for many years, he enrolled at the University of Television and Film Munich in 1994, where he went on to produce over 15 short films, commercials and documentaries, including the shorts'' The Wrong Trip'' and'' Living Dead'' by directing student Dennis Gansel, and shorts by their mutual friend and fellow student Peter Thorwarth'' If it do n't fit, use a bigger hammer'' and'' Mafia, Pizza, Razzia''.
Reginald BarkerActing was not Barker's forte and he trained as an assistant director until 1912 when he directed his first film, a twenty minute western titled'' On the Warpath'' starring Art Acord.
Richard WolstencroftHe then co-produced and acted in Savage's Marauders in 1986, one of the first video feature films ever made in Australia.
Elia KazanHe first directed two short films, but his first feature film was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), one his first attempts to film dramas focused on contemporary concerns, which became his forte.
Erich KettelhutKettelhut worked as an assistant to Jacoby-Boy on two further pictures in 1920, the first being Das wandernde Bild (The Moving Image), in which Kettelhut was first introduced to Lang who was directing the film.
Roland EmmerichHe began his work in the film industry by directing the film The Noah's Ark Principle as part of his university thesis and also co-founded Centropolis Entertainment in 1985 with his sister.
Christopher Jones (biologist)In 2008 Jones assisted his Motown friends to market the Martin Luther King Feature Film in the Gulf, starting in Dubai.
Elliott JordanIn 2011 he worked with New Town Films once again on their second feature film' Community'.
Daniel HayesIn 2009 Hayes wrote, produced, and acted as the lead in the movie, Modern Day Gladiator, a detailed look at the life of a professional Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter, which was later entered into the LA Film Festival.
Juan J. CampanellaFour years later, in 1984, his second film, Victoria 392, which marked the first of five collaborations with actor friend Eduardo Blanco, as well as his first collaboration with screenwriter Fernando Castets, with whom he co-directed and co-wrote the film.
Robert WiseWise's first screen credit was a ten-minute short subject called A Trip through Fijiland (1935), which was made from RKO footage salvaged from an abandoned feature film.
Anders HeinrichsenIn 2007 he made his feature length debut as Emil Bentzén in the Swedish thriller The Torso (based on a novel by Helene Tursten).
Takashi Miike In 2005 Takashi Miike directed a Kabuki style stage-play entitled Demon Pond.
Tamer Hosny Tamer Hosny started his first directorial experience in 2010 by directing his music video'' Saheet ala sotha''.
Peter Billingsley The most rewarding of his later film acting assignments was 1993's Arcade, in which he starred as a teenaged'' virtual reality'' addict, and also worked as the post-production supervisor (credited as Peter Michaelsen).
Jennifer Jason Leigh In 2001, Leigh co-wrote and co-directed The Anniversary Party, an independently produced feature film about a recently reconciled married couple who assemble their friends at their Hollywood Hills house, ostensibly to celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary.
Paul MonashMonash wrote and produced the pilot for the TV series The Untouchables (1959), shown in two parts on Desilu Playhouse and edited as a feature film for distribution in Europe.
R. G. SpringsteenIn 1936 he moved to directing and worked as a Second unit, or assistant, director on numerous low budget B movies.
Josef KumbelaJosef Kumbela has written and directed a number of short films since 1994 using his Geneva-based production company.
Andrew N. ShearerIn 1990, he co-founded the local improvisational comedy project ADTV with his brother David and friend Matt Comegys, producing several short films for which he earned extra credit in junior high classes.
Ian Wilson (cinematographer)In 1966 he entered the film business and his first work as cinematographer was Private Right by Michael Papas.
Gordon HollingsheadThrough the silent film era, Hollingshead assisted in the direction of thirteen films, and continued as an assistant director until 1934.
Martin KenzieHis first feature film work was for Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) where he worked as an assistant cameraman with film's cinematographer John Alcott.
George BreakstonReturning to Japan, Breakston co-produced and wrote Tokyo File 212 a 1951 American film credited as Hollywood's first feature film totally filmed in Japan.
Vincent MoonAs a result of his encounter with the work of experimental filmmakers Peter Tscherkassky and Stephen Dwoskin, Vincent Moon started to make films in 2005.
Steph St. Laurent St. Laurent's best-known work is the film'' Amazay : A Film About Water'' (2009), which explores the Tse Keh Nay First Nations' battle against Northgate Minerals' proposed dumping of 750 million tonnes of acid tailings into a pristine lake in Tse Keh Nay territory.
Noboru TanakaHe served as a production assistant on Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961), an experience which created Tanaka's enthusiasm for the film industry.
Kelly Norris SarnoNorris Sarno began in the music video field in 1994 in Toronto, Canada as a Line Producer for directors such as Andrew MacNaughtan and Floria Sigismondi.
Christian E. Christiansen A graduate of Kalundborg Gymnasium and the National Film School of Denmark, he worked in lower positions on a number of Danish films before producing his first hit movie, Nynne (2005), a comedy directed by Jonas Elmer.
Peter de RomeHe is the writer, photographer and director of many short, gay, erotic movies, first shown in theaters in the US in 1973.
Eric Swinderman Swinderman's first big break came while working on the set of the film Dreaming on Christmas (2005) starring Danny Trejo and Nick Mancuso, as the director of the film's behind the scenes documentary featurettes.
Tsuru AokiAfter a series of moderately successful Ince-produced two-reel serials, Aoki's career in the United States began to falter (while her husband's career began to build momentum), and the couple travelled to France in 1923 and filmed the popular Édouard-Émile Violet - directed drama La Bataille.
Mark KidelKidel also produced and directed many films from 1987 until the present, working in collaboration with a number of production companies, in the UK -- Dibb Directions, Third Eye and Antelope Films -- in France with Les Films d’ici, and Agat Films/Ex Nihilo and also a regular guest producer with the BBC's Music and Arts Department.
Jordan Todorov Todorov made his writing and directing debut with Concrete Pharaohs (2010), a picturesque documentary about the Kalderash Roma -- a closed community of no more than 1 million people all over the world.
Brigitte KingsleyShe produced a series of short films, corporate videos and commercials before producing her first feature film Dark Rising in 2006 starring wrestling superstar Jay'' Christian'' Reso.
Steve Sabella Sabella's life was the subject of several television and film documentaries, the earliest was in 1998 just after his graduation from the Musrara School of Photography.
Haris ZambarloukosHis first feature film as a cinematographer was the 2000 film Camera Obscura.
Yoshihiro NishimuraIn 2010, Nishimura co-directed Mutant Girls Squad with Noboru Iguchi and Tak Sakaguchi, as well as directing the action/horror film Helldriver, his first solo directing duty since'' Tokyo Gore Police.''
Moritz de HadelnIn 1966, de Hadeln directed his second film Ombres et Mirages and during this same period, worked as a film editor in Zürich together with Yves Allegret and as assistant director at CCC Film Studios in Berlin.
Raoul Coutard Coutard's first work collaboration with Jean-Luc Godard was Godard's first feature, À bout de souffle, shot in 1959.
Ko So-youngShe then shot two films in 2006 : the horror film APT by director Ahn Byeong-ki, and the romantic comedy Project Makeover by debut director Jeon Young-gap.
Harris Savides Savides first solo job as a cinematographer was on the thriller starring Alec Baldwin, Heaven's Prisoners (1996) directed by Phil Joanou.
David W. Allen Some of Allen's earliest animation work can be seen in the 1970 16mm student film,'' Equinox'', expanded from a short film to a feature length film by Jack H. Harris, later re-titled'' The Beast'' for VHS video release in the 80s.
Robert Richardson (cinematographer)Richardson worked as a camera operator and 2nd unit photographer on such features as Alex Cox's Repo Man, Dorian Walker's Making the Grade and Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (all in 1984).
Haruo InoueIn 2005, Haruo Inoue triggered a cutting edge phenomena of short films distributed through collaboration with cellular phone company, au, to achieve theatrical release, with films such as'' Tameiki no Riyu'' and'' Bird Call'' starting top fashion models.
Jared Lee MastersMasters wrote, produced and directed the 2012 feature films'' 8 Reels of Sewage'' and'' Climb It, Tarzan !''
Jay Chou Shanghai Film Festival Chou acquired his first directing experience in 2004 through music videos.