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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 Clayton	His 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 Weyergans	He 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 Jodorowsky	Moving 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 Assayas	He 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 Khanna	The 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?ncio	As 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 Khan	Recently, 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? Sugawa	Sugawa 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 Roche	During that time he made his first short film : Genevilliers, port of Paris (1964), a documentary focused on one port of Paris.
Renen Schorr	As 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 Khan	HAMOUR'' is a Short Film featuring Ashiq Khan as its production assistant, which has been selected for the Gulf Film Festival 2012, Dubai.''
Paul Fejos	In 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 Tykwer	He 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. Roach	On 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 Nicolaescu	Nicolaescu's debut as a director was in 1962 with the short film Scoicile nu au vorbit niciodată (Shells Have Never Spoken).
Charlie Buhler	In 2013, She began production on her first narrative short, Aegis, a film she co-produced with frequent collaborator Katherine Walczak.
Paula Heredia	In 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.
Deeyah	Since early 2009 she has been directing and producing Banaz : A Love Story, a documentary film about honour killing s.
Eduardo Condorcet	In 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 Clifton	In 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 Parish	He also began working as a film composer in 1998, writing the score for Belgian director Patrice Toye's debut film, Rosie.
Rozz Williams	He 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 Heyer	He 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 Peniata	In 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 Birkin	By 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-gang	He 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 Cronenberg	Since 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 Reiniger	In 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 Leterrier	In 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 Leduc	In 1965 he began working as both Director and Cinematographer ; his first film as director was a documentary short entitled Chantal en vrac.
Claude Chabrol	In 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 Norris	In 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 Tashlin	Tashlin 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 Batychko	After graduating from school in 2004, he directed several independent projects and music videos.
Karen Mok	Mok 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 Gumede	In 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 Bindlechner	In 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 Barker	Acting 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 Wolstencroft	He then co-produced and acted in Savage's Marauders in 1986, one of the first video feature films ever made in Australia.
Elia Kazan	He 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 Kettelhut	Kettelhut 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 Emmerich	He 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 Jordan	In 2011 he worked with New Town Films once again on their second feature film' Community'.
Daniel Hayes	In 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. Campanella	Four 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 Wise	Wise'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 Heinrichsen	In 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 Monash	Monash 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. Springsteen	In 1936 he moved to directing and worked as a Second unit, or assistant, director on numerous low budget B movies.
Josef Kumbela	Josef Kumbela has written and directed a number of short films since 1994 using his Geneva-based production company.
Andrew N. Shearer	In 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 Hollingshead	Through the silent film era, Hollingshead assisted in the direction of thirteen films, and continued as an assistant director until 1934.
Martin Kenzie	His 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 Breakston	Returning 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 Moon	As 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 Tanaka	He served as a production assistant on Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961), an experience which created Tanaka's enthusiasm for the film industry.
Kelly Norris Sarno	Norris 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 Rome	He 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 Aoki	After 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 Kidel	Kidel 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 Kingsley	She 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 Zambarloukos	His first feature film as a cinematographer was the 2000 film Camera Obscura.
Yoshihiro Nishimura	In 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 Hadeln	In 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-young	She 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 Inoue	In 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 Masters	Masters 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.