Filmmakers
List of all the filmmakers in the Underground Film Guide, in the order that they have been added to the database.
Anthony Rivero Stabley
Birth: Unknown
UFG Entry: Marta's Sex Tape (2006)
Notes: Built miniatures for James Cameron's Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Birth: Feb. 7, 1929
UFG Entry: El Topo (1970)
Notes: Studied and worked with both Marcel Marceau and Maurice Chevalier.
Paul Sharits
Birth: Feb. 7, 1943
UFG Entry: T, O, U, C, H, I, N, G, (1968)
Notes: Was mentored in filmmaking at school by Stan Brakhage.
Sadie Benning
Birth: April 11, 1973
UFG Entry: It Wasn't Love (1992)
Notes: Started making films at age 15 with a Pixelvision camera.
Doris Wishman
Birth: June 1, 1912
UFG Entry: Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965)
Notes: Made her first film, Hideout in the Sun, after being widowed following just five months of marriage.
Aryan Kaganof
Birth: 1964
UFG Entry: SMS Sugar Man (2008)
Notes: Born Ian Kerkhof, but changed his name after meeting his biological father.
Peter Whitehead
Birth: 1937
UFG Entry: The Fall (1969)
Notes: Is also published novelist, as well as the author of the cyber-novel Nohzone.
Harry Smith
Birth: May 29, 1923
UFG Entry: Film Number 12 (Named "Heaven and Earth Magic Feature" by Jonas Mekas) (1957-62)
Notes: Was also a musicologist noted for his Anthology of American Folk Music collection.