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noun

filmmaker

a producer of motion pictures

In a sentence

Six example sentences with filmmaker, each labelled with its topic.

  • The young filmmaker shot a debut feature on borrowed cameras over three winters, editing nights in a rented storage unit.

    Movies

  • Newsreel crews of the 1930s made every filmmaker a witness, since footage of the flood reached theaters within a week.

    History

  • A Mongolian filmmaker followed one herding family across the steppe for a year, carrying batteries on horseback between camps.

    Travel

  • The filmmaker spent two winters in a hide above the fjord to capture eagles fishing in the first light.

    Environment

  • A filmmaker who runs her own studio spends more hours on payroll and insurance than on any camera.

    Business

  • The gallery commissioned a filmmaker to loop nine hours of harbor traffic across three walls of the main room.

    Art

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