filmmaker
part of speech
noun (a filmmaker, filmmakers); also film-maker
meaning for a pupil
A filmmaker is a person who makes films, especially a director or producer who has the main ideas. tree →
sense 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 →
- Our class became filmmakers for a day. tree →
- The filmmaker filmed whales in the ocean. tree →
- She wants to be a wildlife filmmaker. tree →
- The filmmaker edited the video on a laptop. tree →
- Young filmmakers entered the school film festival. tree →
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.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «filmmaker» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.