Sergei Eisenstein was a Soviet Russian film director and film theorist who was born in Riga, in Russia,

in 1898 In 1918 he joined the army and was stationed at Minsk, where he studied Japanese kabuki theatre. In 1920 he moved to Moscow where he worked for the artistic movement Proletkult, which stood for Proletarian Culture. In 1925 he directed The Battleship Potemkin, which was released to worldwide critical acclaim.

He focused on structural issues such as camera angles and crowd movements in his films, and was considered The Father of Montage In 1930 he attempted to make a film in America, but he didn't agree with the formulaic, commercial approach of American film studios, and cancelled the film. He argued that montage was the essence of cinema and developed the methods of montage: Metric, Rhythmic, Tonal, Overtonal and Intellectual. He died from a heart attack in 1948 aged 50.

Eisenstein often used the technique of montage in his films, and the Odessa Steps scene from The Battleship Potemkin was one of the first uses of montage in mainstream cinema. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48F_Bk2Oe es

John Greyson is a Canadian filmmaker born in Nelson, Canada in 1960. he is openly gay and includes homosexuality as a major aspect of his films. He began his filmmaking career with several short films such as Kipling Meets the Cowboy, and Moscow Does Not Believe in Queers

One of his early feature films was The Making of Monsters which focused on the 1985 murder of Kenneth Zeller. It was pulled from distribution after a copyright claim where the estate of Kurt Weill objected to the use of the the tune Mack the Knife. Greyson had permission to use the tune, but it was withdrawn by Weills estate because they objected to the homosexual themes in the film

In summer 2013 he travelled to Egypt and was arrested without charge along with another Canadian, Dr Tarek Loubani. They stayed in prison from august 16th to october 5th until they were released after multiple protests and a hunger strike.

Stanley Kubrick was an American film director who was born in The Bronx in New York in 1928. He did most of his work in the UK as an expatriate. His films were generally adaptations of novels or short stories and he was noted for his unique cinematography, attention to detail, and evocative use of music. He directed acclaimed films such as A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut, and The Shining, which was one of the first uses of a Steadicam for fluid tracking shots.

He was a perfectionist, and generally filmed a huge number of takes for each scene in his films (over 50), and tried to push the actors to their limits. This was considered irrational by many critics, but Kubrick believed that when the actors had done the same scene over and over again, they would lose the part of them thinking about their performance and stop censoring themselves. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n47Uv3v1-Q