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film-maker

nounC1leans written

Other forms: film-makers

A film-maker is somebody who directs or produces motion pictures. Work as a film-maker.

The word covers everybody who shapes a film, which is deliberately generous. A film-maker now needs a camera anybody can afford and an audience nobody can buy.

Robin Férand · CC BY 3.0

Definitions of film-maker

  1. 1nounfilm-makerSomebody who directs or produces motion pictures.C1

    “The film-maker spent nine years on one documentary.”

film-maker is a person.

Where it comes from

filmmaker comes from film + maker.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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