The Best directors from *Propaganda Films*
by nicesegue | created - 09 Jul 2013 | updated - 29 Jul 2013 | Public
1. Michael Bay
Producer | Armageddon
A graduate of Wesleyan University, Michael Bay spent his 20s working on advertisements and music videos. His first projects after film school were in the music video business. He created music videos for Tina Turner, Meat Loaf, Lionel Richie, Wilson Phillips, Donny Osmond and Divinyls. His work won...
2. Antoine Fuqua
Producer | The Magnificent Seven
Antoine Fuqua is an American film director, known for his work in the film Training Day as well as The Replacement Killers, Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Shooter, Brooklyn's Finest, Olympus Has Fallen and The Equalizer.
He has directed music videos for such artists as Arrested Development, Prince, ...
3. David Fincher
Director | Se7en
David Fincher was born in 1962 in Denver, Colorado, and was raised in Marin County, California. When he was 18 years old he went to work for John Korty at Korty Films in Mill Valley. He subsequently worked at ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) from 1981-1983. Fincher left ILM to direct TV commercials...
4. Spike Jonze
Producer | Her
Spike Jonze made up one-third (along with Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman) of the triumvirate of genius minds behind Dirt Magazine, the brother publication of the much lamented ground-breaking Sassy Magazine. These three uncommon characters were all editors for Grand Royal Magazine as well, under the ...
5. Alex Proyas
Director | Dark City
Alex Proyas has moved effortlessly between helming TV commercials and music videos to feature films. Born to Greek parents in Egypt, Proyas relocated to Australia with his family when he was three years old. He began making films at age ten and went on to attend the Australian Film Television and ...
6. Mark Romanek
Director | One Hour Photo
Mark Romanek was born on September 18, 1959 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a director and producer, known for One Hour Photo (2002), Never Let Me Go (2010) and Michael Jackson feat. Janet Jackson: Scream (1995). He is married to Brigette Romanek.
7. David Lynch
Writer | Twin Peaks
Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. He attended various art schools, married Peggy Lynch and then fathered future ...
8. John Dahl
Director | The Last Seduction
John Dahl was born on June 15, 1956 in Billings, Montana, USA. He is a director and writer, known for The Last Seduction (1994), Kill Me Again (1989) and Rounders (1998). He is married to Beth Jana Friedberg. They have four children.
9. Stephane Sednaoui
Director | MC Solaar: Nouveau western
Over the years, increasingly drawn towards more personal projects, Stephane Sednaoui has redefined his artistic approach to focus on his fine-art and cinematographic projects. New, existing, and primarily unseen work have been exhibited recently at the MoMA, New York (2015)- the 9/11 Memorial ...
10. Michael Moore
Director | Bowling for Columbine
Michael Francis Moore was born in Flint, Michigan on April 23, 1954, and was raised in its Davison suburb. He is the son of Helen Veronica (Wall), a secretary, and Francis Richard Moore, who worked on an auto assembly line. He has Irish, as well as English and Scottish, ancestry.
Moore studied ...
11. Vaughan Arnell
Director | George Michael: Fastlove
Vaughan Arnell is known for George Michael: Fastlove (1996), George Michael: Let Her Down Easy (2014) and One Direction: You & I Fragrance Commercial (2014).
12. Steve Hanft
Director | Kill the Moonlight
Steve Hanft is a California native writer/director, known for creating original movies and videos.
He first gathered momentum at California Institute of the Arts, where he studied art and film making, cranking out films and receiving several grants, including the Princess Grace Film Grant, the Kodak ...
13. Alek Keshishian
Director | Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
Alek Keshishian was born on July 30, 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon. He is a director and writer, known for Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me (2022), Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) and Selena Gomez: Hands to Myself (2015).
14. Paul Rachman
Director | American Hardcore
With the feature documentary American Hardcore Paul Rachman revisited his music and filmmaking roots having started his career making underground films and rock and punk music videos in the early 80's with bands such as the Bad Brains. He later became one of the of the industry's top music video ...
15. Dominic Sena
Director | Kalifornia
Dominic Sena was born on April 26, 1949 in Niles, Ohio, USA. He is a director and cinematographer, known for Kalifornia (1993), Whiteout (2009) and Swordfish (2001).
16. Simon West
Director | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Simon West is a British born and Hollywood based film director and producer. His films include CON AIR starring Nicholas Cage, "THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER" starring John Travolta and "LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER" starring Angelina Jolie. West is the only live action director ever whose first three 3 films ...
17. Douglas Gayeton
Director | Johnny Mnemonic: The Interactive Action Movie
Douglas Gayeton is known for Johnny Mnemonic: The Interactive Action Movie (1995), Growing in the City: NRCS Assistance for Urban Farmers (2017) and Everything Is Water (2016).
18. Greg Gold
Writer | Painkiller Jane
Greg is an award-winning director of national and international commercials and music videos, and producer and writer for television and video.
Together with fellow directors David Fincher, Dominic Sena and Nigel Dick, and producers Joni Sighvattson and Steve Golin, Greg founded Propaganda Films, a ...
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