11.   Mute Witness Slick Hitchcockian thriller set in Moscow, where American filmmakers are in danger after discovering a snuff-film operation.

12.   Others to be honored at the event, which brings together French and American independent filmmakers and their work, are Paul Schrader, Alexandre Rockwell and Larry Cohen.

13.   Sayles, of course, is the king of American independent filmmakers.

14.   What kind of American filmmaker would make such choices?

15.   Postwar American filmmakers began to feel creative competition from abroad.

16.   By casting his horizons abroad, a master American filmmaker has come home.

17.   He said American filmmakers took themselves too seriously.

18.   Horman is the widow of Charles Horman, an American filmmaker killed one week after the coup led by Pinochet.

19.   The American filmmaker was yet another Hollywood heavyweight who canceled his trip to the French Riviera because of film commitments.

20.   American filmmaker Samuel Fuller was later to recall that dead and drowning GIs were simply left to their fate in the drive to advance.