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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
film-maker
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Federico Fellini has consistently maintained that he was influenced by Roberto Rossellini more than any other single film-maker.
▪ I am not an instinctive film-maker.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
film-maker

also filmmaker, 1859 as a solution used in developing photographs, later "a producer of film for cameras" (by 1889), from film (n.) + maker. As "producer of a cinematographic work, movie-maker," from 1905.

Usage examples of "film-maker".

And to play the part of the great conjuror the film-makers and the British Broadcasting Corporation had engaged, at a substantial fee, the greatest of living conjurors, my old friend Magnus Eisengrim.

Novelists, film-makers, science fiction writers and others, working closely with psychologists, could prepare creative works about the lives of individual characters in the imagined society.

Further, the power of the camera and the film-maker allows history - that is, collective memory - to be remade at the behest of a Big Brother with a memory hole, a revisionist holocaust historian, or a minister of education with a belief in the importance of not forgetting 1066.