Favorite New Indie Directors
by KatchFilm | created - 17 Aug 2011 | updated - 22 Aug 2011 | PublicSome favorite new indie directors who have been hitting the indie and underground scene the past 3 years.
1. Debra Granik
Director | Leave No Trace
Debra Granik (born February 6, 1963) is an American New York City-based independent film and documentary film director and screenwriter. She is most known for 2004's Down to the Bone, which starred Vera Farmiga, 2010's Winter's Bone, which starred Jennifer Lawrence in her breakout performance and ...
Winter's Bone, her second film, was just, wow. Sneaks up on you. Then you have to watch it again.
2. Shane Ryan-Reid
Producer | RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop
Shane Ryan-Reid began making films at the age of 7 after his father introduced him to video editing at the age of 5. He made action films in hopes to be like and appear in Jean-Claude Van Damme movies, but at the age of 14 he decided to delve into dramas and movies about troubled kids. Shane ...
From Amateur Porn Star Killer to Warning!!! Pedophile Released, his artsy, character driven, often minimal dialogue films disguised as sexploitation movies are a real odd look into the human mind.
3. Evan Glodell
Special_effects | Bellflower
Evan Glodell is known for Bellflower (2011), Chuck Hank and the San Diego Twins and Canary.
I still can't figure out how I felt about Bellflower but one thing is clear; there is tremendous talent there. Let's see if it happens again. The film has such a slow start you are left scratching your head, but then bam! What a final act.
4. Nik Fackler
Director | Lovely, Still
Nik Fackler is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning filmmaker that was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his directorial debut "Lovely, Still" (starring Martin Landau, Ellen Burstyn, Adam Scott and Elizabeth Banks). The LA Times called the film "an impressive debut" and Fackler ...
5. Lee Toland Krieger
Producer | The Vicious Kind
American film director and screenwriter best known for the films The Vicious Kind (2009), Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012) and The Age of Adaline (2015).
Krieger was born and raised in Los Angeles. He became "hooked" on filmmaking at the age of 13 when his neighbor, film producer Steve Perry, ...
Just the first shot in The Vicious Kind leaves you gasping for breath. What emotion he drives right into with an actor you didn't know could capture it, and right of the flippin' bat.
6. Jason Eisener
Director | Hobo with a Shotgun
Canadian filmmaker Jason Eisener directed, co-wrote and edited the sci-fi horror adventure "Kids vs. Aliens," his second feature film, inspired by his own childhood and shot on location near his hometown of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He made his directorial debut with the 2011 Canuxploitation ...
7. Ti West
Director | Pearl
Ti West is most notable for directing horror films, as well as being an actor, writer, producer, and editor. Ti broke out, after directing various projects, in 2009, when he directed two feature films - 2009's The House Of The Devil and Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever. Ti later directed, with his ...
House of the Devil. Best horror film of the past several years...period
8. Andrew Thomas Hunt
Producer | The Fight Machine
One of the founding partners of Raven Banner, Andrew Thomas Hunt is a Producer/Director/Writer/Editor. Andrew's feature-length debut Sweet Karma premiered at the 2009 Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal and was the catalyst for the formation of Raven Banner Entertainment - a worldwide sales company ...
9. Mike Cahill
Editor | Another Earth
Mike Cahill was born on July 5, 1979 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is an editor and director, known for Another Earth (2011), I Origins (2014) and Boxers and Ballerinas (2004).
10. Kelly Reichardt
Director | Wendy and Lucy
Kelly Reichardt was born and raised in Miami-Dade Country, Florida, to a family of police officers. She had an interest in photography from a very young age. She started by using her father's camera, which he used for photographing crime scenes. She went to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in ...
11. Samuel Maoz
Director | Lebanon
Samuel Maoz was born on May 23, 1962 in Herzliya, Israel. He is a director and writer, known for Lebanon (2009), Foxtrot (2017) and It's Good to Die for Your Country.
12. David Michôd
Writer | The King
David Michôd is known for The King (2019), Animal Kingdom (2010) and The Rover (2014). He is married to Mirrah Foulkes.
13. Rodrigo Cortés
Director | Buried
Rodrigo Cortés was born in 1973 in Pazos Hermos, Ourense, Galicia, Spain. He is a director and editor, known for Buried (2010), Love Gets a Room (2021) and Red Lights (2012).
14. Clio Barnard
Director | The Selfish Giant
Clio Barnard was born in Otley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She is known for The Selfish Giant (2013), Ali & Ava (2021) and The Arbor (2010).
15. Ryan Craig
Director | Small Town Saturday Night
Ryan Craig was born on November 28, 1974 in La Mesa, California, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Small Town Saturday Night (2010), Untitled Harstad Project and Piano Man in a Guitar Town (2006).
16. Jen Soska
Actress | American Mary
Identical twins, writers, directors, actors even stunt players, the Soska sisters have always loved twisted film. Even at an early age, they devoured Stephen King novels, one after another as fast as they could read - and snuck into the over 18 sections at video stores, to critique the bloody ...
17. Sylvia Soska
Director | American Mary
Identical twins, writers, directors, actors, and even stunt players, the Soska sisters have always loved twisted film. Even at an early age, they devoured Stephen King novels, one after another as fast as they could read - and would sneak into the over 18 sections at video stores, to critique the ...
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