Asia

• Sidiki Bakaba
• Safi Faye
• Sorious Samura ( Cry Freetown, Return to Freetown, Exodus, Living with Hunger, Living with Refugees)
• Tareque Masud (Bangladesh)
• Aryana Farshad (Iran)
• Ammar Aziz (Pakistan)
• Anu Malhotra (India)
• Sadaf Foroughi (Iran)
• Suma Josson
• Susumu Hani
• Kazuo Hara
• Fumio Kamei
• Toshio Matsumoto
• Tatsuya Mori
• Shinsuke Ogawa
• Anand Patwardhan (India)
• Artavazd Ashoti Peleshyan (Armenian)
• David Perlov
• Mohammad Bakri (Palestine)
• Avi Mograbi (Israeli Moroccan)
• Nissim Mossek (Israel)
• Makoto Satō
• Noriaki Tsuchimoto
• Mikhail Vartanov (Armenia) ( Parajanov: The Last Spring )
• Wang Bing
• Ruby Yang
• Maheen Zia (Pakistan)
• Anwar Hajher
• Satyaprakash Upadhyay (India) ( Bunkar - The Last of the Varanasi Weavers)
• Zahir Raihan (Bangladesh)

Australia

• Wayne Coles-Janess ( In the Shadow of the Palms)
• George Gittoes ( Soundtrack to War)
• John Pilger (Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia, Vietnam: the Last Battle, Stealing a Nation)

Europe

• Michael Apted ( Seven Up!)
• Matthew Bauer ( The Other Fellow)
• William Bemister
• Patrick Bokanowski
• António Campos
• Pedro Costa
• Adam Curtis ( The Century of the Self, The Trap, The Power of Nightmares)
• Denis Delestrac ( Pax Americana)
• Mike Dibb
• Vanessa Engle ( Lefties)
• Harun Farocki
• Erik Gandini (Videocracy)
• James Gay-Rees ( Senna, Amy, Ronaldo)
• Jo Gilbert ( Great West End Theatres series)
• John Grierson
• Johannes Grenzfurthner
• Bert Haanstra
• Werner Herzog ( Grizzly Man)
• Marcel Ichac (France, exploration and mountain films)
• Joris Ivens
• Asif Kapadia ( Senna, Amy)
• Ross Kemp
• Sean Langan ( Langan behind the Lines, Langan in Iraq, Travels of a Gringo)
• Claude Lanzmann ( Shoah)
• Jørgen Leth ( The Five Obstructions)
• Willy Lindwer (The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank)
• Sean McAllister, filmmaker ( Liberace of Baghdad, The Minders)
• Chris Marker
• Arūnas Matelis ( Before Flying Back to the Earth)
• James Miller ( Death in Gaza)
• George Morrison ( Mise Éire)
• Michel Noll
• Marcel Ophüls
• Jacques Perrin ( Le Peuple Migrateur)
• Jos de Putter
• António Reis
• Alain Resnais ( Night and Fog)
• Leni Riefenstahl
• Jean Rouch
• Michael Schindhelm ( The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg)
• Tomasz Sekielski ( Tell No One)
• Marc Sinden ( Great West End Theatres series)
• Louis Theroux
• Virgilio Tosi
• Agnés Varda
• Dziga Vertov
• Lars von Trier ( The Five Obstructions)
• Peter Watkins ( The War Game, Punishment Park, Culloden (film), Edvard Munch (film))
• Leslie Woodhead ( Children of Beslan, A Cry from the Grave, Godless in America)
• Thierry Zéno
• Lydia Zimmermann

Latin America

• Tomas Gutierrez Alea
• Santiago Álvarez
• Julia Bacha (Brazil)
• Fernando Birri
• Eduardo Montes-Bradley (Evita: The Documentary, Che: Rise and Fall, Waissman, Calzada, Samba on Your Feet)
• Patricio Guzman
• Miguel Littin
• Paul Leduc
• Fernando E. Solanas
• Salvador Espinosa Orozco (TEOKARI Compañero de Camino)

North America

• Aryana Farshad (Mystic Iran, the Unseen World), ( Longing for the Soul, A Quest for Rumi-2019)
• Mitch Anderson
• Emile de Antonio
• Denys Arcand
• Timothy Asch ( The Ax Fight)
• Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky ( Brother's Keeper, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster)
• Les Blank ( Burden of Dreams)
• Doug Block ( 51 Birch Street, Home Page)
• Michel Brault
• Sam Bozzo ( Can You Hack It?)
• George Butler ( Pumping Iron, In the Blood, Roving Mars, Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure, The Lord God Bird, Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry)
• Ken Burns ( Baseball, Jazz, The Civil War)
• Ric Burns ( New York: A Documentary Film)
• Jim Butterworth ( Seoul Train)
• Steven Cantor ( Step, Dancer, Between Me and My Mind, What Remains, Chasing Tyson)
• Lesley Chilcott ( Waiting for 'Superman', An Inconvenient Truth, CodeGirl, A Small Section of the World)
• Jimmy Chin ( Free Solo, Meru (film))
• Matthew Cooke ( How to Make Money Selling Drugs)
• Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
• Patrick Creadon ( Wordplay, I.O.U.S.A.)
• George Csicsery
• Khashyar Darvich ( Dalai Lama Renaissance)
• Peter Davis (director) ( Hearts and Minds (film))
• Kirby Dick ( Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist, Twist of Faith, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Outrage)
• Paul Devlin ( SlamNation, Power Trip)
• Chris Donahue ( Be Good, Smile Pretty)
• Dinesh D'Souza ( 2016: Obama's America, America: Imagine the World Without Her)
• Ava DuVernay ( 13th (film))
• Lilibet Foster ( Soul in the Hole, Speaking in Strings, Brotherhood: Life in the FDNY, Be Here Now (The Andy Whitfield Story))
• Robert J. Flaherty
• Su Friedrich ( Hide and Seek)
• Liz Garbus ( What Happened, Miss Simone?)
• Paul Gardner (writer)
• Robert Gardner ( Dead Birds)
• Catherine Gund ( A Touch of Greatness), ( Born To Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity)
• Lauren Greenfield ( Thin, kids+money)
• Gilles Groulx
• Monica Hampton ( Slacker Uprising, Heavy Metal in Baghdad)
• Nathaniel Hansen
• Mark Jonathan Harris ( The Long Way Home, Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport)
• Tigre Hill (The Shame of A City, Barrel of a Gun)
• John E. Hudgens ( American Scary)
• Leslie Iwerks ( The Pixar Story, Recycled Life)
• Steve James ( Hoop Dreams)
• Kartemquin Films (Gordon Quinn, Jerry Blumenthal, Steve James, Peter Gilbert, et al.)
• Mary Rosanne Katzke
• Tim Kirkman ( Dear Jesse)
• Vivian Kleiman
• Barbara Kopple ( Harlan County, USA, American Dream, both Academy Award winners)
• Martin Kunert ( Voices of Iraq)
• Richard Leacock
• Grace Lee ( American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs)
• Logan Leistikow ( The Comedy Garage)
• Brian Lindstrom ( Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse)
• James Longley ( Iraq in Fragments)
• Kevin Macdonald ( One Day in September, Touching the Void)
• Eric Manes ( Voices of Iraq)
• Ron Mann ( Comic Book Confidential, Twist, Grass)
• John Marshall ( The Hunters)
• Albert Maysles and David Maysles ( Salesman, Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter)
• Ross McElwee ( Time Indefinite, Sherman's March)
• Freida Lee Mock ( Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, an Academy Award winner; Bird by Bird with Annie, a portrait of Anne Lamott)
• Eduardo Montes-Bradley (Evita, Che: Rise and Fall)
• Michael Moore ( Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Big One, Sicko)
• Errol Morris ( The Thin Blue Line, Vernon, Florida, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, The Fog of War)
• John Mulholland ( Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen)
• Alanis Obomsawin
• Charles Olivier ( Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals)
• Joshua Oppenheimer ( The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence)
• D. A. Pennebaker ( Dont Look Back, Monterey Pop)
• Pierre Perrault
• Phil Ranstrom ( Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street)
• Frances Reid ( Long Night's Journey Into Day)
• Velcrow Ripper ( Scared Sacred)
• Steven Rosenbaum ( 7 Days in September)
• Alex Sangha ( Canada) ( My Name Was January, Emergence: Out of the Shadows)
• Jillian Schlesinger (Maidentrip: A Teen's Solo Voyage Around The World)
• Steven Sebring ( Patti Smith: Dream of Life)
• Amy Serrano ( The Sugar Babies)
• Christopher Seufert
• Jeff Chiba Stearns
• Ondi Timoner ( We Live in Public, DIG!)
• Michael Wadleigh ( Woodstock (film))
• Lucy Walker ( Devil's Playground, Blindsight)
• Reid Williams ( Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World, Cruel and Unusual: Transgender Women in Prison, Were the World Mine)
• Frederick Wiseman ( High School, Titicut Follies)
• Ruby Yang ( The Blood of Yingzhou District), ( My Voice, My Life)
• Jessica Yu ( Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien)

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