filmmaker

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See also: film-maker and film maker

English

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From film +‎ maker.

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Noun

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filmmaker (plural filmmakers)

  1. A producer or director of films/movies.
    • 2007 March 11, Erik Piepenburg, “Reflections on Life as a Shaker-Upper”, in New York Times[1]:
      I spent a couple of months all by myself building a set and had my filmmaker friends, nonactors, play the parts.
    • 2015, B. Forshaw, Sex and Film: The Erotic in British, American and World Cinema:
      Such prissy mollycoddlings of audience expectations were shortly to come under heavyweight siege from a variety of filmmakers in the 1950s – not least the aforementioned Otto Preminger.

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filmmaker m (plural filmmakers, diminutive filmmakertje n)

  1. filmmaker
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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From film +‎ -maker.

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filmmaker m (definite singular filmmakeren, indefinite plural filmmakere, definite plural filmmakerne)

  1. a film-maker

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