- Robert Redford
Robert Redford (born Charles Robert Redford, Jr. on August 18 1936), is a American motion picture actor, director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, and philanthropist. One of Hollywood's biggest superstars, Redford's appeal has lasted several decades. - Edie Falco
Edith Falco (born July 5, 1963) is an American television, film and stage actress best known for her lead role as Carmela Soprano on HBO's award winning hit series "The Sopranos", as well as Diane Wittlesey on the HBO show "Oz". - Glen Hansard
Glen Hansard is the vocalist and guitarist for Irish rock group The Frames. Hansard quit school at age 13 to begin busking on local Dublin streets. He first came to public attention as guitar player Outspan Foster in the Alan Parker film "The Commitments". In 2003, he presented the television programme Other Voices: Songs from a Room, which showcased Irish music talent on RTÉ. On April 21, 2006, he released his first solo album, "The Swell Season", … - Craig Brewer
Craig Brewer is an American film director and screenwriter. His 2005 movie "Hustle & Flow" won the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and achieved commercial success, along with an Academy award for Best Original Song, It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp. - Jon Heder
Jonathan Joseph Heder (pronounced "heeder") (born October 26, 1977) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his portrayal of the title character in 2004's "Napoleon Dynamite" as well as his role in the more recent "Blades of Glory", as well as "The Benchwarmers" - Tom Kalin
Tom Kalin (born 1962) is an award-winning screenwriter, film director and producer. His debut feature, "Swoon", is considered an integral part of the New Queer Cinema. In addition to his feature work, Kalin has created a number of short films, many of which are collected in the compilations "Behold Goliath or The Boy With the Filthy Laugh", "Third Known Nest" and "Tom Kalin Videoworks: Volume 2". - Campbell Scott
Campbell Scott (born July 19 1961 in Wise, Virginia) is an American actor, director, producer, and voice artist. He is a son of the late actors George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst. He has a brother, Alexander Scott. As an actor, Scott co-starred in the movie "Dying Young" (in which his mother also appeared) alongside Julia Roberts. He also appeared in the movie "Singles". In 1996, he teamed up with Stanley Tucci to direct the film "Big Night". - Neil Labute
Neil LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, and playwright. Born in Detroit, Michigan, LaBute was raised in Spokane, Washington. He studied theater at Brigham Young University (BYU), where he joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS church; see also Mormon). At BYU he also met actor Aaron Eckhart, who would later play leading roles in several of his films. - John August
John August (born August 4, 1970 in Boulder, Colorado) is an American screenwriter and film director. Born and raised in Boulder, Colorado, August earned a degree in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa and an MFA in film from the The Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles. August's debut film was 1999's critically-acclaimed "Go", which he also co-produced and was second unit director in. - James Mangold
James Mangold (born December 1963) is an American film director and screenwriter. He is the son of artists Robert Mangold and Sylvia Plimack Mangold. He was born in New York City and is perhaps best known for "Walk the Line" which he co-wrote and directed. Working consistently as a feature writer and director since 1995, when his first feature, the independent film "Heavy", won the best directing prize at Sundance. - Miranda July
Miranda July (born February 15, 1974) is a performance artist, musician, writer, actress and film director. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California, after having lived for many years in Portland, Oregon. Born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, she works under the surname of "July," which can be traced to a character in a short story by a high-school friend. She was born in Barre, Vermont, the daughter of Lindy Hough and Richard Grossinger. - Marc Forster
Marc Forster (born 1969 in Ulm, Germany) is a Swiss film director and screenwriter. - Christine Vachon
Christine Vachon (b. 1962, Manhattan, New York City) is an American movie producer known for producing challenging, independent films which also happen to be commercially successful. Vachon came to prominence as the producer of a number of films with a Queer theme in the early 1990s, and has been called the "godmother" of New Queer Cinema, although she herself resists the title. - Rebecca Miller
Rebecca Miller (born September 15, 1962 in Roxbury, Connecticut) is an American film director, screenwriter and actress, most known for her films "Personal Velocity: Three Portraits", "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" and "Angela", all of which she wrote and directed. She was born Rebecca Augusta Miller in 1962, the daughter of playwright Arthur Miller and Austrian photographer Inge Morath. - Tom Dicillo
Tom DiCillo is an American film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1954, and studied filmmaking at New York University's Film School, subsequently working as an actor, then cinematographer, before making his own films. His first film, "Johnny Suede", casted then-unknows Brad Pitt and Catherine Keener which would be both their first starring roles. - Ira Sachs
Ira Sachs (b. 1965 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American filmmaker. His first film was the acclaimed short "Lady" (1993). He directed Sundance Film Festival selection "The Delta" (1997) and directed Sundance Film Festival Grand Prize winning "Forty Shades of Blue" (2005). - Rian Johnson
Rian Craig Johnson (born 1973 in Maryland) is an American writer and director, who won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival with his debut feature, "Brick". Johnson is originally from San Clemente, California, and attended the high school where "Brick" was predominantly filmed. He then attended the University of Southern California and graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1996. - Miguel Arteta
Miguel Arteta (born 1965 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an American director of film and television, best known for his independent film "Chuck & Buck" (2000). Born to a Peruvian father and Spanish mother, Arteta grew up all over Latin America due to his father's itinerant existence as a Chrysler auto parts salesman. He went to high school in Costa Rica, but was expelled, and went to live with his sister in Boston, Massachusetts, where he learned filmmaking. - Suchin Pak
SuChin Pak is an Korean-American television news correspondent, frequently appearing on the cable networks of MTV. SuChin Pak joined the MTV News Team as a correspondent in May of 2001. She has covered the "MTV Movie Awards", the "Sundance Film Festival", and the "MTV Video Music Awards". She also co-hosted, with Kurt Loder, the MTV's pre-Grammy show. As a correspondent for "MTV Daily News", she has interviewed Mariah Carey, *NSYNC, P. Diddy, … - Shane Carruth
Shane Carruth (born 1972 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) is an American film writer, director, producer and actor. Carruth performed all those roles in his independent film "Primer", which was honored at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival with the Grand Jury Prize. Carruth, a former engineer with a degree in mathematics, utilized his technical knowledge on the project. - Lou Taylor Pucci
Lou Taylor Pucci (born July 27, 1985) is an award-winning actor from Keansburg, New Jersey, who first appeared on film in Rebecca Miller's well received "Personal Velocity: Three Portraits" in 2002. Pucci, a graduate of Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft, lives in New Jersey. He first acted at the age of ten in a hometown production of "Oliver!". Just two years later he was on Broadway playing Freidrich in "The Sound of Music". - Anthony Mackie
Anthony Mackie (born September 23, 1979 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American actor. Mackie has been featured in fourteen films, three television series and acted in several Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including "Talk" by Carl Hancock Rux for which he won an Obie award in 2002. He appeared in Eminem's movie "8 Mile" as Papa Doc and with Denzel Washington in the remake of "The Manchurian Candidate". - Joe Carnahan
Joseph Aaron Carnahan (born May 9, 1969) is an American independent film director best known for his films "Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane", "Narc" and "Smokin' Aces". He is the brother of screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan. Born in Delaware, raised in Detroit, Michigan and Sacramento, California, Carnahan became employed in the promotional department of Channel 31, a local Sacramento television station, … - Adam Beach
Adam Ruebin Beach (born November 11, 1972) is a Canadian actor of Saulteaux descent. He is best known for his roles as Marine Private First Class Ira Hayes in "Flags of Our Fathers", Private Ben Yahzee in "Windtalkers" and Dr. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) in "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee". - Charles Busch
Charles Busch (born August 23, 1954) is an American actor and writer who has appeared in many off-Broadway productions. Busch first came to prominence as both author and performer (as the leading lady, in drag) in plays that simultaneously sent up and celebrated classic film genres. These include "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom" (1984), "Psycho Beach Party" (1987), "The Lady in Question" (1989), and "Red Scare on Sunset" (1991). - Gabriele Muccino
Gabriele Muccino (born May 20, 1967) is an Italian director. Born in Rome, Muccino gained success with films such as "L'ultimo bacio (One Last Kiss)" and "Remember Me, My Love (Ricordati di me)". He is currently making a switch to directing Hollywood films after "L'ultimo bacio" won the Audience Award for World Cinema at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival bringing him to the attention of American film industry. - Jesse Garcia
Jesse Garcia is an American actor. He was reared as a Jehovah's Witness. Garcia starred in the award winning film "Quinceañera", written and directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer with Executive producer Todd Haynes, which won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival in the Dramatic Independent Feature Competition. Quinceañera was also selected to play at the Berlin Film Festival. - Maria Maggenti
Maria Maggenti (born c. 1962) is a film director and screenwriter for film and television. She has been the script editor and has written many episodes of the American television series, "Without a Trace" (2003), but is perhaps best known for her feature film, "The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love" (1995). Her film "Puccini for Beginners" was in competition at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2006. - Henry Alex Rubin
Henry Alex Rubin studied film at Phillips Academy, Andover and Columbia University. The son of a French mother and American father (art historian James H. Rubin), he spent his life between Europe and the United States. Henry Alex directed the humorous cult film "Who is Henry Jaglom?" (PBS, First Run Features, w/ Candice Bergen, Dennis Hopper) produced "Freestyle" (Palm Pictures, w/ Mos Def, The Roots, Biggie), which won Best Documentary at the Woodstock, … - Mike Binder
Mike Binder (born 1958) is an American screenwriter, film director and actor. A native of Detroit, Mike Binder grew up in a Jewish community within Birmingham, one of the city's suburbs, and attended Camp Tamakwa, on which he based his 1993 film "Indian Summer". Binder began his career as a standup comedian. This led to his own HBO "One Night Stand" special. Binder's first screenplay, "Coupe de Ville" (1990), was directed by Joe Roth. - Marc Levin
Marc Levin (born in 1951) is an American filmmaker who is perhaps best known for his film "Slam" (1998) which won both the Sundance Film Festival's Dramatic Feature Grand Jury Prize and the Cannes Film Festival's Golden Camera award. Levin recently finished his new movie, "The Protocols", which is about resurgent anti-Semitism following the terrorist attacks of September 11th. The film focuses on "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", … - Karyn Kusama
Karyn Kusama is a US film director and screenwriter. A graduate of New York University's film school, her début production "Girlfight" won both the Director's Award and the Grand Jury Prize (tied with Kenneth Lonergan's "You Can Count on Me") at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. She has finished a live-action film version of "Æon Flux", starring Charlize Theron. - Jennifer Abbott
Jennifer Abbott (born c. 1965) is a Canadian director, cinematographer and editor, best known as a documentary maker. Her first feature documentary, "A Cow at My Table" (1998), explores contemporary Western attitudes to livestock and meat production. More recently, she served as co-director and editor of the widely acclaimed documentary, "The Corporation" (2003), which critically examines large corporations in the modern world. - Tony Bui
Tony Bui is Vietnamese American independent film director, most famous for his film "Three Seasons", which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and became the only film ever to win both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize there. The film was based on Bui's own experiences dealing with the changing landscape and people of his ancestral home of Vietnam. The film starred Harvey Keitel. Bui came to the US at age 2. He was raised in Sunnyvale, California. - David Slade
David Slade (born September 26, 1969) is a British film director who began his career making music videos. His work includes videos for artists such as Aphex Twin ("Donkey Rhubarb"), Rob Dougan ("Clubbed to Death"), Stone Temple Pilots ("Sour Girl"), Tori Amos ("Strange Little Girl"), as well as four videos for Muse (Hyper Music, Feeling Good, Bliss, and New Born). - Juan Carlos Rulfo
Juan Carlos Rulfo is a Mexican director. He was born in 1964 and is the son of Juan Rulfo (considered one of Latin America's best authors). He was born in Mexico City has also written, produced, and photographed several films. He is married to Valentina Leduc Navarro a Mexican director. His movie In The Pit won the Grand Jury Prize for an International Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. - Aaron Ruell
Aaron Ruell (born June 23, 1976) is an American actor who grew up in Clovis, California, and is most noted for his performance as Kipland Ronald Dynamite (or Kip) in the indie movie "Napoleon Dynamite". He also shot all of the promotional photography for the film as well as designing the opening title sequence to the film. Ruell stars in, "On the Road With Judas," premiering in the Dramatic Competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, … - Michael Hoffman
Michael Lynn Hoffman is a movie director. He grew up in Payette, Idaho, played basketball, and attended college at Boise State University. There he was elected as student body president of BSU. He was a cofounder of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival (along with Doug Copsey and Victoria Holloway) which is celebrating its 30 year anniversary this year. While at BSU, he served as president of the student body and earned the high honor of Rhodes Scholar. - Chen Shi-Zheng
Chen Shi-Zheng is an acclaimed Chinese theatre and opera director now based in the United States. His early training in China was in traditional Chinese opera. He went to study at New York University in 1989. Chen's directorial debut film, "Dark Matter", was released in 2007, starring Liu Ye and Meryl Streep. This film won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. - Tommy O'Haver
Tommy O'Haver (born 1967) is an American film director and screenwriter. He grew up in Carmel, Indiana, located outside of Indianapolis, Indiana. He graduated from Indiana University with a degree in Journalism and Comparative Literature. During the mid-nineties, he attended the MFA Film program at USC but never finished. "Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss", featuring Sean Hayes, was O'Haver's directorial debut. The film focuses on a homosexual man, played by Hayes, …
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