DIRECTORS

Jean-Pierre Jeunet
1953
Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a self-taught director.
He started directing TV commercials and video clips (such as Julien Clerc in 1984).
At the same time he met designer/drawer Marc Caro with whom he made two short animation...

Julien Duvivier
1896 - 1967
It was as an actor, in 1916 at the Théâtre de l'Odéon under the direction of André Antoine, that Duvivier's career began.[8] In 1918 he moved on to Gaumont, as a writer and assistant of, amongst others, André...

Ken Loach
1936
Loach studied law at St Peter's Hall, Oxford.

After a brief spell in the theatre, he was recruited by the BBC in 1963 as a television director. This lauched a long career directing films for television and the cinema.

Luis Buñuel
1900 - 1983
The father of cinematic Surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of cinema, Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education (which sowed the seeds of his obsession with both religion and subversive behavior),...

Luis García Berlanga
1921 - 2010
This magnificent filmmaker is, along with Antonio Bardem, the personification of the renewal of the film in Spain.
He was born into a bourgeois family. He decided to study Law and Philosophy but his true vocation led him to...

Martin McDonagh
1970
Born in England to Irish parents, Martin McDonagh was forced to leave his studies and to seek his life from the age of 16, when his parents returned to Ireland and left him in London with his older brother (screenwriter John McDonagh).He...

Mike Leigh
1943
Mike Leigh is a director of film and theatre.

He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) before honing his directing skills at the East 15 Acting School and the Camberwell School of Art.
His work spans...

Mike Newell
1942
Mike Newell was the son of amateur actors.
Having graduated from Magdalene College, Oxford he attended a three-year training course with Granda Television with the intention of entering the theatre.
He has directed various...

Paul Verhoeven
1938
Paul Verhoeven graduated from the University of Leiden, with a degree in math and physics. He entered the Royal Netherlands Navy, where he began his film career by making documentaries for the Navy and later for TV.

In...

Paula Ortiz
1979
Paula Ortiz, PhD in Theory script (PhD), director and screenwriter, graduated in 2002 in Hispanic Studies from the University of Zaragoza.

He completed the Master of Writing for Film and Television at the Autonomous University...