Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA producer or director of films/movies.
Sentence Examples
Michael Glawogger was an Austrian filmmaker who was well known for his documentary films.
Tom is an independent filmmaker.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The talented ____ spent three years shooting his new documentary in Africa.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The young ____ received an award at the festival for her innovative and thought-provoking documentary.
Word Origin & History
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Proto-Indo-European *pel-der.
Proto-Germanic *felma-
Proto-Germanic *filmīn-
Old English filmen
Middle English filme
English film
Proto-Germanic *makaz
Proto-West Germanic *mak
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-West Germanic *-ōn
Proto-West Germanic *makōn?
Old English macian
Middle English maken
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
Middle English maker
English maker
English filmmaker
From film + maker.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"I spent a couple of months all by myself building a set and had my filmmaker friends, nonactors, play the parts."
— 2007 March 11, Erik Piepenburg, “Reflections on Life as a Shaker-Upper”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:
"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."
— 2015, B. Forshaw, Sex and Film: The Erotic in British, American and World Cinema:
"On some level, the filmmakers behind Monster Trucks must have recognized the ill fit of Till playing a teenager, because they cast Jane Levy, a 27-year-old who can pass for younger but not a decade younger, as Meredith, a nerdy classmate of Tripp’s who moons over him as she insists on making an appointment to tutor him in biology. […] Till is somewhere on the Hemsworth spectrum (more engaging than Liam; not as charismatic at Chris), but Levy is wholly charming as his enthusiastic sidekick."
— 2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2017: