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Filmmaker known for psychological dramas, exploration of dysfunctional families, and a bold visual style. Nominated for multiple Academy Awards and winner of Best Director awards from various film festivals.
Canadian retired film and television director, producer, and founder of the Canadian Film Centre.
Scottish economist and philosopher. Pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Author of "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" and "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations". Considered "The Father of Economics" and "The Father of Capitalism". Introduced the idea of absolute advantage.
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Film director and screenwriter known for making comedies set in New York City and influenced by writer-directors like Woody Allen and Whit Stillman. Collaborates frequently with Wes Anderson, Adam Driver, and Greta Gerwig.
British Indian academic, journalist, activist, and writer. Known as "the rock star of social justice writing."
Jason W. Moore is an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University, where he is professor of sociology. He is author or editor, most recently, of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015), Capitalocene o Antropocene? (Ombre Corte, 2017), Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism (PM Press, 2016), and, with Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (University of California Press, 2017). His books and essays on environmental history, capitalism, and social theory have been widely recognized, including the Alice Hamilton Prize of the American Society for Environmental History (2003), the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Section on the Political Economy of the World-System (American Sociological Association, 2002 for articles, and 2015 for Web of Life), and the Byres and Bernstein Prize in Agrarian Change (2011). He coordinates the World-Ecology Research Network. He can be reached at: jwmoore@binghamton.edu.
Documentary filmmaker with films screened at SXSW, Sundance, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Instructor of media arts and frequent collaborator of filmmaker Julia Reichert.
Four-time Academy Award-nominated director with works including Union Maids, Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists, The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant, and American Factory (Oscar winner).