filmmaker

plural filmmakers · alternative film-maker · alternative film maker

1. A producer or director of films/movies.

   I spent a couple of months all by myself building a set and had my filmmaker friends, nonactors, play the parts.

   2007 March 11, Erik Piepenburg, “Reflections on Life as a Shaker-Upper”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021

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   Such prissy mollycoddlings of audience expectations were shortly to come under heavyweight siege from a variety of filmmakers in the 1950s – not least the aforementioned Otto Preminger.

   2015, B. Forshaw, Sex and Film: The Erotic in British, American and World Cinema

   On some level, the filmmakers behind Monster Trucks must have recognized the ill fit of Till playing a teenager, because they cast Jane Levy, a 27-year-old who can pass for younger but not a decade younger, as Meredith, a nerdy classmate of Tripp’s who moons over him as she insists on making an appointment to tutor him in biology. […] Till is somewhere on the Hemsworth spectrum (more engaging than Liam; not as charismatic at Chris), but Levy is wholly charming as his enthusiastic sidekick.

   2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2017

   Synonyms: moviemaker