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filmmaker

[ film-mey-ker ]

noun

  1. Also called moviemaker. a producer or director of motion pictures, especially one working in all phases of production:

    the leading young filmmakers of France.

  2. a person who makes film, especially for use in photography.


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Other Words From

  • filmmaking noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of filmmaker1

First recorded in 1905–10; film + maker

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Example Sentences

Simultaneously, she began contacting filmmakers on the ground in Wuhan who might be able to film what was going on.

From Vox

So the age-old question of whether critics are just failed filmmakers turns up early in the movie, which then keeps transitioning into other age-old questions.

From Vox

Poitras denied this, saying she had been active on several films in production when she was fired as well as making an online security guide for filmmakers.

It served its purpose well, allowing filmmakers to layer spectacular landscapes and futuristic settings onto its blank canvas in post-production.

From Quartz

Vimeo, the video-sharing platform originally created by filmmakers is building a large community of creative marketers producing content.

In “Steal This Episode,” the filmmaker denounces Homer Simpson as an “enemy of art.”

Yet, for god knows what reason, his name is never brought up in the “Great American Filmmaker” conversation.

Hitchcock saw the work of, and probably met, Murnau, the great German filmmaker--the earliest master of bleak light and shadow.

I just felt myself getting better and better, stronger and stronger as a filmmaker, and that is sort of embedded in the movies.

Long gone are the days of the Young British Artists movement: now a salt-and-pepper-haired filmmaker is the artist of the moment.

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