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# filmmaker

noun (a filmmaker, filmmakers); also film-maker

«filmmaker» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A filmmaker is a person who makes films, especially a director or producer who has the main ideas. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filmmaker/#m1)

### In the lessons

In media and art lessons pupils learn about filmmakers and how films are planned, shot and edited; they can be young filmmakers with phones. It tells the reader someone's job or hobby. Phrases: «a young filmmaker», «an award-winning filmmaker».

### Examples

- Steven Spielberg is a famous filmmaker. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filmmaker/#x1)
- Our class became filmmakers for a day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filmmaker/#x2)
- The filmmaker filmed whales in the ocean. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filmmaker/#x3)
- She wants to be a wildlife filmmaker. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filmmaker/#x4)
- The filmmaker edited the video on a laptop. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filmmaker/#x5)
- Young filmmakers entered the school film festival. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filmmaker/#x6)

### Note

Countable: a filmmaker, filmmakers. Spelled as one word (filmmaker) or with a hyphen (film-maker, more British); both are correct. Double m in the one-word spelling. In the USA people often say «moviemaker» too. A filmmaker is not always the actor.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «filmmaker» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filmmaker/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«filmmaker» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/filmmaker.html) on Mova free.