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Born	1974? • Bristol? • England
Notable Works	“Exit Through the Gift Shop”

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Carol Reed

British director

John Grierson

British film producer

Mani Kaul

Indian filmmaker

David Maysles

American documentary filmmaker

Harry Smith

American filmmaker, painter, musicologist, ethnographer, collector, and mystic

Fred Zinnemann

American director

Dr. Seuss

American author and illustrator

Barbara Kopple

American director

Emir Kusturica

Bosnian-born Serbian director, screenwriter, actor, and producer

Alain Resnais

French film director

Oliver Stone

American director, producer, and screenwriter

Jean Cocteau

French poet and artist

Maurizio Cattelan

Italian artist

Werner Herzog

German director

Spike Jonze

American director and producer

Salvador Dalí

Spanish artist

Leonard Nimoy

American actor

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Thai film director

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Polish director

Michael Moore

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