Filmmakers

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema.

Fassbinder maintained a frenetic pace in film-making. In a professional career that lasted less than fifteen years, Fassbinder completed 40 feature length films, two television film series, three short films, four video productions, 24 stage plays and 4 radio plays, and 36 acting roles in his own and others’ films. He also worked as an actor (film and theater), author, cameraman, composer, designer, editor, producer and theater manager.

Sergio leone was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most famous for his spaghetti westerns.

In addition to his spaghetti western films Leone in known for his style of juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots and original music soundtracks. His most well-known movies include the Man with No Name trilogy (a.k.a. the Dollars Trilogy) (which consists of A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America.

Todd Solondz is an American screenwriter and independent film director known for his style of dark, thought-provoking socially conscious satire. Solondz has been critically acclaimed for his examination of the "dark underbelly of middle class American suburbia", a reflection of his own background in New Jersey. His work includes the cult hit Welcome to the Dollhouse, the award-winning Happiness, Storytelling, and Palindromes.

Vincent Fremont began working for Andy Warhol shortly after arriving in New York in the summer of 1969, eventually serving as Vice-President of Andy Warhol Enterprises. In the 1970s and 1980s, Vincent produced and developed video, television, and film projects with Warhol, including Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes for MTV, Fight starring Charles Rydell and Brigid Berlin, and Phoney.