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Take a look at this list of the Top Ten Directors to Watch. Variety started this twelve years ago and it proves out fairly well. I’d like to see more woman mentioned. Yet, Affleck and Gilroy are excellent choices. 
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote that there are no second acts in American lives. Then again, Fitzgerald probably never met anyone quite like Ben Affleck.
By 2006, Daniel Barnz had been working for a decade penning screenplays with big stars attached.
Screenwriter Tony Gilroy (most notably of the Jason Bourne franchise) admits he’d never directed anything before, much less a major studio film. Read profile
Donkey Kong is a lot like life — just one of the reasons Seth Gordon’s docu “The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters” strikes such a universal chord with audiences. Read profile
As the Arab world’s premier musicvideo helmer, Nadine Labaki made a name for herself as one of the first artists to push forward the image of the modern Arab woman thanks to her frequent collaborations with Lebanese pop star Nancy Ajram. Read profile
Sometimes a wild imagination can get a young filmmaker into trouble. For Anna Melikyan it seems to be her magic elixir. Read full story
Nearly two decades after the fall of communism in
“Elite Squad,” helmer Jose Padilha’s breakthrough pic, was still at the lensing stage in 2006 when the film started to get massive media attention in
Born to a Peruvian father and an American mother, digital artist-turned-filmmaker Alex Rivera enjoys the contradictions of his heritage.
Fifteen years ago, under the moniker Stakka Bo, Johan Renck topped the charts all over
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Tom Stanley said
January 17 2008 @ 11:00 pm
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Tom Stanley
Kenna McHugh said
January 18 2008 @ 8:40 am
Thanks Tom. I appreciate your visiting and adding the RSS feed. Please feel free to post any time.