Are Abdisalam Aato and Curtis Hanson both considered to be American film-makers?
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Abdisalam Aato Abdisalam Aato (Somali: "Cabdisalaan Caato" ; Arabic: عبد السلام عاتو‎ ‎ ) (born 1970) is a Somali-American film director, producer, entrepreneur and media consultant. He is the founder of Olol Films, a production company at the forefront of the Somaliwood movement within the Somali film industry.
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Curtis Hanson Curtis Lee Hanson (March 24, 1945 – September 20, 2016) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His directing work included the psychological thriller "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" (1992), the neo-noir crime film "L.A. Confidential" (1997), the comedy "Wonder Boys" (2000), the hip hop drama "8 Mile" (2002), and the romantic comedy-drama "In Her Shoes" (2005).
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Courtney Fathom Sell Courtney Fathom Sell (born Courtney Lange Sell in Boston, Massachusetts January 28, 1985) is an American filmmaker, musician, soundtrack composer, writer and video artist primarily recognized for his prolific independent filmmaking career. He has shot a majority of his work on a Hi8 video camera and other lo-fi equipment. He has contributed numerous articles to several publications including Filmmaker Magazine and indieWIRE regarding D.I.Y. filmmaking. indieWIRE once referred to Sell as ""like a reincarnation of the young John Waters"" regarding his early exploitation films. Much of his video work has been archived at Anthology Film Archives. A proponent for online distribution, Sell has self-released many of his films and much of his music for free on his official website.
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Aflatoon (film) Aflatoon ('English': Maverick) is an Indian Hindi romance action film directed by Guddu Dhanoa. The film stars Akshay Kumar in a double role opposite Urmila Matondkar. It was released on 19 December 1997 to negative reviews and did average business at the box office. The music cassettes were sold to T-Series.
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Liane Curtis Liane Alexandra Curtis (born July 11, 1965) is an American film and television actress and musician. She has garnered a cult following after starring in such B grade theater and video releases as "" and "Girlfriend from Hell" as well as smaller roles in higher profile classics such as "Sixteen Candles" and her feature film debut "Baby It's You" directed by John Sayles.
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Jennifer Abbott Jennifer Abbott is a Canadian director and editor, who specializes in social justice and environmental documentaries. She is best known as the co-director and editor of the widely acclaimed documentary, "The Corporation" (2003), which critically examines large corporations in the modern world. The Corporation was held over in commercial theatres internationally, has a 90% critics and audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes , won 26 awards including from the Sundance Film Festival, a Genie for best documentary and a top ten film of the year by the Toronto International Film Festival - though disqualified from the Oscars as an Ontario broadcast preceded the LA theatrical release. The Corporation is also credited as one of the top ten films to inspire the Occupy Movement. Most recently, Abbott co-wrote and edited Sea Blind , about the sea route opening along the melting Arctic Ocean and the price of shipping our stuff. It screened at the 2015 Paris climate talks and is making the rounds to the ports of Europe projected onto walls of shipping containers. Abbott is the co-writer, co-director and editor of Us and Them  about four homeless and addicted street people shot over the course of 10 years and the Executive Producer and Editor of I Am . She was commissioned to create the short film Brave New Minds for the interactive website Unspeak by Amsterdam's Submarine Channel . Abbott's first feature documentary, "A Cow at My Table" (1998), explores contemporary Western attitudes to livestock and meat production. Her early work includes the experimental short "Skinned" screened at NY's Museum of Modern Art . She has taught at the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design in Vancouver and lives on a permaculture farm on a small island on Canada's West Coast.
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An American Mosque An American Mosque is a 2012 documentary produced by filmmaker David Washburn which first aired nationwide in the United States on July 11, 2015 on PBS. It tells the story of the destruction by arson of a just-completed mosque, the Islamic Center of Yuba City, in rural California in 1994. And it tells of its community and of its eventual rebuilding by Muslims joined by Sikhs, Mormons, other Christians and others of different faiths.
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Alexander Hanson (actor) Alexander Harald St John Hanson-Akins (born 28 April 1961) is a Norwegian-born British stage actor who has appeared in numerous plays and musicals in the West End, and also on Broadway.
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Mark Edwin Robinson Mark Edwin Robinson (born November 6, 1980) is an American film director and screenwriter.
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Ahmed Abdisalam Adan Ahmed Abdisalam Adan, also known as Ahmed Mohamed Aden, is a Somali radio journalist, media founder and politician. He is a co-founder of HornAfrik Media Inc based in Mogadishu. In the 2000s, he also served as a Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Security in the former Transitional Federal Government.
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Abel Ferrara Abel Ferrara (born July 19, 1951) is an American filmmaker, known for the provocative and often controversial content in his films, his use of neo-noir imagery and gritty urban settings. A long-time independent filmmaker, some of his best known films include "Ms. 45" (1981), "King of New York" (1990), "Bad Lieutenant" (1992) and "The Funeral" (1996).
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Leah Curtis (composer) Leah Curtis is an Los Angeles-based Australian musician and composer. She is best known for her work as composer and orchestrator for film, as well as in contemporary classical composition.
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David Dusa Davis Dusa (born May 17, 1979 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian and Swedish film director.
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Anurag Kashyap Films Anurag Kashyap Films Pvt. Ltd. (AKFPL) is a film production company based in Mumbai, it was founded by director Anurag Kashyap in 2009, and is run by Guneet Monga. It is known for making art house or new wave cinema in Bollywood, like "Dev D" (2009), "Udaan" (2010), "Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1" (2012) and "The Lunchbox" (2013). Anurag Kashyap also runs a film distribution company, Phantom Films.
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Aleta Mitchell Aleta Mitchell is an American film, television and theatre actress
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Terisa Greenan Terisa Greenan (born Sacramento, California, 1967) is an American film producer, film director, writer and stage and film actress.
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Louis Massiah Louis J. Massiah is an American documentary filmmaker.
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Allen Curtis Allen Curtis (1877 – 24 November 1961), was an American film director of the silent era. He directed 278 films between 1913 and 1922. He was born in New York, New York and died in Hollywood, California.
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Haile Gerima Haile Gerima (born March 4, 1946) is an Ethiopian filmmaker who lives and works in the United States. He is a leading member of the L.A. Rebellion film movement, also known as the "Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers". His films have received wide international acclaim. Since 1975, Gerima has also been an influential film professor at Howard University in Washington, DC. He is best known for "Sankofa" (1993), which won numerous international awards.
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Mona Kosar Abdi Mona Kosar Abdi (Somali: "Mona Kosaar Cabdi" , Arabic: منى كوثر عبدي‎ ‎ ) is a Somali-American multimedia journalist. Currently (2017) working in Cleveland, Ohio on ABC affiliate Channel 5. She was a reporter at WSET ABC 13, the ABC television network affiliate for the Roanoke/Lynchburg, Virginia market. Abdi is also a contributing writer at the Al Jazeera Media Network. Additionally, she is an Associate Producer and previously served as an Assignment Editor at KGTV Channel 10, an ABC-affiliated television station based in San Diego. In 2011, Abdi also founded and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Gazzetta media outlet.
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Amit Dutta Amit Dutta (Hindi: अमित दत्ता; born 5 September 1977, Jammu) is an Indian experimental filmmaker and screenwriter. He is considered to be one of the most significant contemporary practitioners of experimental cinema, known for his distinctive style of filmmaking rooted in Indian aesthetic theories and personal symbolism resulting in images that are visually rich and acoustically stimulating. His works mostly deal with subjects of art history, ethno-anthropology and cultural inheritance through cinema, many times merging research and documentation with an open imagination.
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Alpesh Patel Alpesh Patel (born February 19, 1972) is an Indian-American film director, screenwriter, producer and editor. His films include "Graduation Night" (2003), "Blind Ambition" (2006), and "Touch Wood" (2009). Patel produces and directs episodes of the reality TV show "Ghost Hunters International" and also serves as an editor for the franchise's flagship program, "Ghost Hunters".