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James Redford (filmmaker)
David James Redford was an American documentary filmmaker and environmentalist. He was the son of actor and director Robert Redford and historian Lola Van Wagenen.
Oliver Stone
American film director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1946)
John de Lancie
American actor (born 1948)
Jared Leto
Jared Joseph Leto is an American actor and musician. Known for his method acting in a variety of roles, he has received numerous accolades over a career spanning three decades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Additionally, he is recognized for his musicianship and eccentric stage persona as frontman of the rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars.
Dave Grohl
American rock musician
Michael Moore
American filmmaker and author (born 1954)
Robert Altman
American filmmaker (1925–2006)
Zora Neale Hurston
African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891–1960)
Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci Jr. is an American actor. Known as a character actor, he has played a wide variety of roles, earning numerous accolades for his work.
T.I.
Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. (born September 25, 1980), known professionally as T.I. or Tip, is an American rapper and actor. Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Harris is credited as a pioneer of the hip-hop subgenre trap music, along with fellow Georgia-based rappers Jeezy and Gucci Mane. He met local music executive Kawan "KP" Prather in the late 1990s, joining his company Ghet-O-Vision Entertainment — an imprint of Arista and LaFace Records — by 1999. The lukewarm critical and commercial response of his debut studio album, ''I'm Serious'' (2001), led him to part ways the label. He then sign
Brit Marling
American actress, screenwriter and producer
Michael Rapaport
Michael David Rapaport is an American actor, comedian, and podcast host. His film roles include Zebrahead (1992), True Romance (1993), Higher Learning (1995), Metro (1997), Cop Land (1997), Deep Blue Sea (1999), The 6th Day (2000), Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001), Big Fan (2009), and The Heat (2013). On television, he headlined the Fox sitcom The War at Home (2005–2007) and was a series regular on the Fox drama Boston Public (2001–2004), the fourth season of the Fox serial drama Prison Break (2008–2009), and the Netflix comedy drama Atypical (2017–2021). Rapaport held recurring roles on the NBC sitcoms Friends (1999), My Name Is Earl (2007–2008), and Justified (2014). Outside of his acting career, Rapaport directed the 2011 documentary Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest about the hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest. Active on several podcasts, he is the host of the I Am Rapaport Stereo Podcast.
Casey Neistat
American YouTube personality, filmmaker and entrepreneur
Charles S. Dutton
American actor, director and producer
Frederick Wiseman
American documentary filmmaker (1930-2026)
Arthur Balder
American artist, writer and film director
D. A. Pennebaker
American filmmaker (1925-2019)
Alexandra Hedison
American actress and photographer
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
American literary critic, professor and historian (born 1950)
Gita Mehta
Indian novelist and film director (1942–2023)
Tom Shadyac
American film director
Timothy Treadwell
American documentary filmmaker (1957–2003)
Rory Kennedy
American filmmaker
Aaron Russo
American film producer
Martha Coolidge
American filmmaker, television director (born 1946)
Louis Theroux
Louis Sebastian Theroux is a British journalist, broadcaster and author. He has received three British Academy Television Awards and a Royal Television Society Television Award.
Davis Guggenheim
American filmmaker
Seth Gordon
American film director, producer, screenwriter, and film editor
Roya Hakakian
Iranian American author
George Hickenlooper
American film director (1963-2010)
Les Blank
American documentary filmmaker
John McNaughton
American film and television director
Shirley Clarke
American filmmaker (1919-1997)
Sufe Bradshaw
American actress
Greg Palast
American journalist
G. Edward Griffin
American author, conspiracy theorist, film producer, and political lecturer
Robert Drew
American filmmaker (1924–2014)
Toni Cade Bambara
American author, activist, professor (1939–1995)
Robert B. Weide
American screenwriter, producer, director, documentarian
Johnny Harris
video journalist from the United States
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
American actress and filmmaker (born 1974)
Gloria La Riva
socialist activist and perennial candidate for United States president
Alexandra Pelosi
American journalist (born 1970)
Bob Murawski
American film editor
Roger Ross Williams
American film director
Emile de Antonio
American film director (1919-1989)
Joe Berlinger
American documentary filmmaker
Max Blumenthal
American journalist, author, blogger, and filmmaker (born 1977)
Julien Bryan
American photojournalist (1899–1974)
Louie Psihoyos
American photographer and film director
Robert Greenwald
American filmmaker
Mick LaSalle
American film critic
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
American film director
David Brenner
American comedian and actor (1936-2014)
Su Friedrich
American filmmaker (born 1954)
Pia Getty
American filmmaker
Alexandr Hackenschmied
American film director, photographer, actor, film editor and cinematographer (1907-2004)
Todd Fisher
American film director
Cassie Jaye
American film director
Edward Anhalt
American screenwriter (1914–2000)