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Fernando Meirelles – concerned moralist from Sao Paulo
Since the mid 1990’s the Brazilian cinema has been considered as one of the most interesting cinematographies in the world. Retomada, the revival of the Brazilian cinema was possible thanks to Jose Carlos Avellar, who in 1992, founded RioFilme, a company that financed and distributed new films.
Abbas Kiarostami - a versatile artist
Abbas Kiarostami is one of the leaders amongst the Iranian directors. He is widely considered as the most prominent representative of this exotic cinematography which has celebrated a lot of successes at different film festivals over the last few years. This is due to the Iranian New Wave, who brought to the world many outstanding filmmakers and made Iran a significant force in cinema world.
Krzysztof Kieslowski - morally concerned
Krzysztof Kieślowski was, and still is regarded as, one of the most renown Polish directors in the world. He was born on the June 27th, 1941 and died, a sudden death, on March 13th, 1996. His output is composed of numerous narrative and documentary films made for both theatrical release and TV as well as many scripts, most of which were screened but some left only as the typescripts.
Jane Campion - women's cinema at its best
”Women's cinema” is a pretty new invention. Elevated by feminist orientated critics and theorists to the distinction of a film style it became a buzzword, applied without restraint to analyze all movie products made by women.
Fernando Meirelles – concerned moralist from Sao Paulo
Since the mid 1990’s the Brazilian cinema has been considered as one of the most interesting cinematographies in the world. Retomada, the revival of the Brazilian cinema was possible thanks to Jose Carlos Avellar, who in 1992, founded RioFilme, a company that financed and distributed new films.
Wong Kar Wai - Wiz of the Image
Wong Kar Wai belongs to an outstanding generation of Asian filmmakers who have created new trends in the 1990’s and made Asian cinema renowned, making ambitious movies. They moved away from the ever present, and highly dominant, Far East action cinema, by creating artistic movies that were exotic in their idiosyncracy that have gone on to win both, the audience’s and the critics’ hearts the world over.
Mike Leigh - kind-hearted observer
Mike Leigh is the head representative of British social realism, within the film industry, and his filmography is a showcase of British cinema in the world. He is often mentioned in the same breath as Ken Loach, with whom he shares an interest in social matters. Leigh is called a “tragi-comedian of everyday life” and a “film humanist” amongst modern directors.
Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan, born Atom Yeghoyan on July 20th, 1960 in Cairo, is a Canadian film maker of Armenian descent. His parents, Joseph and Shushan, emigrated from Armenia to Egypt before he was born.
