Directors
Here is our director list.
Ariel St-Louis Lamoureux
With a bachelor's degree in Design for Theatre from Concordia University, Ariel St-Louis Lamoureux holds a master's degree in cinema, research-creation profile, from the University of Montreal. Collaborative creative processes and polyphonic narra...
Frédérique Cournoyer Lessard
Ayant étudié à l’École nationale de cirque de Montréal ainsi qu’à l’Université Concordia en production cinématographique, Frédérique Cournoyer Lessard est une réalisatrice de films indépendants et artiste de cirque qui travaille sur le pouvoir nar...
Abbas Fahdel
Abbas Fahdel is a Franco-Iraqi film director, screenwriter, and critic, born in Hilla, Iraq. He moved to France at the age of 18, where he studied cinema under Eric Rohmer, Jean Rouch, and Serge Daney until he obtained his doctorate. In January 20...
Abdessamad El Montassir
Abdessamad El Montassir is a storyteller whose backdrop is the Sahara. Born in 1989 in the Sahara in southern Morocco, he works between Boujdour and Marseille. He is a graduate of the Institut National des Beaux-Arts in Tétouan and the École Norma...
Ada Ushpiz
Ada Ushpiz is a renowned Israeli film producer and director. She has a B.A. in philosophy and M.A. in history from Tel Aviv University and a significant journalistic experience in political-social writing for the prestigious Ha'aretz newspaper. Sh...
Adam Isenberg
Adam Isenberg is a California-born director and producer with a degree in linguistics from UC Berkeley. His first film, A Life Without Words (2011), received the Best Documentary Award at Cinelatino Toulouse and won the Margaret Mead Filmmaker Awa...
Adam Paaske
Adam Paaske works as a documentary filmmaker, a journalist at the Danish newspaper Politiken, and as an external curator at The Danish Cinematheque. He has studied anthropology at The University of Copenhagen. His first documentary film, The Art ...
Adam Samuels
Adam Samuels is a recording engineer and the right-hand man of the producer and composer Daniel Lanois. He started his career as an engineer assistant of Tchad Blake for the Sunset Sound Factory in Hollywood. In 1998, he became close friends with ...
Adam Vollick
Adam Vollick is a photographer and cinematographer known for his work with musical heroes. He typically shoot long continuous takes that allow viewers to circumnavigate space. He worked with Neil Young, Daniel Lanois and Emmy Lou Harris.
Adèle Shaykhulova
Born in Russia in 1993, Adèle Shaykhulova immigrated to France at 12 years old. She completed a master’s degree in filmmaking at the University of Paris 8, where she made Adieu Athènes, her graduation film. She then directed Without you, without m...
Adele Tulli
Adele Tulli graduated in Screen Documentary at Goldsmiths University in 2013, and now works as a documentary filmmaker, curator, programmer, lecturer. She has directed award-winning films such as 365 without 377, about the decriminalization of hom...
Adrien Bellay
Adrien Bellay spent his childhood in the south of France where his parents ran a travelling cinema circuit, between a desire for militancy and education in the visual image. Camera in hand from an early age, it is the dialectic of editing that att...
Affonso Uchôa
Affonso Uchôa was born in Brazil in 1984. He has been filming for about ten years. Arabia (2017), which he co-directed with João Dumans, was awarded in many festivals around the world. Seven Years in May (2019), his next film, won an award at the ...
Agnès Varda
French filmmaker born in 1928, Agnès Varda spent her childhood in Belgium and then in Sète. After studying at the Beaux Arts and the École du Louvre, she became the photographer for the Théâtre National Populaire alongside Jean Vilar in the 1950s....
Ahmet Necdet Cupur
Ahmet Necdet Cupur worked for three years in Iraq and Afghanistan during the war as a civil engineer. He then decided to become a filmmaker and moved to Paris. Two years after his arrival, he got funding from CNC for his short film Latin Babylon. ...
Aicha Macky
Born in Zinder (Niger) in 1982, Aicha Macky is a filmmaker and social change activist. Having trained as a sociologist, she then turned to documentaries. She completed a Documentary Cinema Master’s degree in Saint-Louis University (Senegal). In 20...
Aída Esther Bueno Sarduy
Aída Esther Bueno Sarduy is a Cuban documentary director and researcher. She holds a PhD in cultural anthropology, and is an expert on the cultures of the African diaspora and female leadership in the Xangô de Recife religion. She is currently res...
Aimée Danis
Aimée Danis (1929 - 2012) was a Quebecois director and producer from Maniwaki. She began as a script assistant at Radio-Canada, and later worked with Jacques Godbout on his film YUL 871, before becoming the first woman in the industry to direct te...
Aisling Chin-Yee
Aisling Chin-Yee is an award-winning producer, writer, and director based in Montreal, Canada. She co-created in 2017, #AfterMeToo, aimed to analyze the issue of sexual misconduct in the entertainment industry. In 2019, she is directing her first ...
