Definition of filmmaker
:one who makes motion pictures
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The movie was (apparently) shot guerrilla-style, though the filmmakers have been coy as to which scenes were captured stealthily and which are dramatized.
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The main thing to become a better filmmaker is to make films.
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The Mooch once paid the filmmakers of Wall Street 2 $100,000 to appear in the film for 15 seconds, while Donald Trump's cameo was cut in the final version.
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CSX attorneys blamed the crash entirely on the filmmakers.
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James Boo, a filmmaker, has made more than 30 one-minute films about New Yorkers and their various food traditions.
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The world watched as Sibahle Steve Nkumbi, a black South African filmmaker, was violently and unceremoniously attacked by her Dutch AirBnb host over a later check-out dispute.
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Some might say that Bong has gone Hollywood, a misleading charge given how few U.S. studio filmmakers bring as distinctive an auteur signature to their work.
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Knatchbull's exceptional life is to be celebrated not only for her royal connections (then-Princess Elizabeth was her bridesmaid at her wedding to filmmaker John Knatchbull), but also for her resilience.
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First Known Use of filmmaker
1908
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