* Ash, the professional name of independent filmmaker Ashley Baron Cohen ( born 1967 )

Capp is also the subject of an upcoming WNET-TV American Masters documentary, The Life and Times of Al Capp, produced by his granddaughter, independent filmmaker Caitlin Manning.

In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence.

* May 6 – L. Frank Baum, American author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker ( The Wizard of Oz ) ( b. 1856 )

* May 15 – L. Frank Baum, American author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker ( The Wizard of Oz ) ( d. 1919 )

Although Lichtenstein had planned on producing 15 short films, the three-screen installation — made with New York-based independent filmmaker Joel Freedman — turned out to be the artist's only venture into the medium.

* David Nesenoff, rabbi, independent filmmaker, and singer / songwriter

* Richard Dutcher, independent filmmaker, director, screenwriter, and actor

In summer 1994, Jimmy Pop had a small role in the short independent film The Chick That Was Naked by independent filmmaker Kurt Fitzpatrick.

The film chronicles the real 1996-1997 making of Coven, an independent horror film directed by an independent filmmaker named Mark Borchardt.

He was often associated with independent filmmaker John Waters and starred in ten of Waters's films, usually in a leading role.

Baltimore Yippie John Waters became a renowned independent filmmaker.

Capp is also the subject of an upcoming PBS American Masters documentary produced by his granddaughter, independent filmmaker Caitlin Manning.

* Thom Anthony Rehwaldt, independent filmmaker, actor and writer.

Gregg Araki ( born December 17, 1959 ) is an American independent filmmaker.

A collaboration with independent filmmaker Marion Cajori, Sept. 11, 1972 was a Minimalist portrait of sunlight in Cajori's studio.

The Wonderful Land of Oz ( 1969 ) was a studio-bound production from independent filmmaker Barry Mahon, which starred his son, Channy, as Tip.

A condensed, 2-minute, version of the song was made into an animated music video by Daniel D. Cooper, an independent filmmaker / animator, in 2010.

Sean Penn's directorial debut The Indian Runner is dedicated to Ashby and his contemporary, pioneering independent filmmaker / actor John Cassavetes.

As an independent filmmaker, he won critical acclaim and a Japanese Academy Award for his Taishō Trilogy, Zigeunerweisen ( 1980 ), Kagero-za ( 1981 ) and Yumeji ( 1991 ).

In addition to her independent work and stage roles, she is regularly cast by her husband, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, in his films.

In 1998 he starred in a small, independent film by filmmaker Stephen Grynberg titled " Love from Ground Zero ", and in 1999 appeared in Ang Lee's Ride with the Devil.

Upperstall. com described her work in the film as " an outstanding psychologically penetrating performance very different from those seen normally till then in mainstream Hindi cinema ", and famous independent filmmaker Satyajit Ray commented, " In Ankur she may not have fitted immediately into her rustic surroundings, but her poise and personality are never in doubt.

With business partner Les Goldman, Jones started an independent animation studio Sib Tower 12 Productions, bringing on most of his unit from Warner Bros., including Maurice Noble and Michael Maltese.

However, Michael Montgomery, in From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English, states " In Ulster in recent years it has sometimes been supposed that it was coined to refer to followers of King William III and brought to America by early Ulster emigrants …, but this derivation is almost certainly incorrect … In America hillbilly was first attested only in 1898, which suggests a later, independent development.

When Constantinople fell to the Fourth Crusade in 1204, Michael Angelos Komnenos Ducas seized Aetolia and Epirus and established an independent state known as the Despotate of Epirus with Arta as its capital.

Troma Entertainment is an American independent film production and distribution company founded by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz in 1974.

The town is home to the summer arts festival Arts Framlingham, Framlingham Castle, the comprehensive secondary school Thomas Mills High School, the independent school Framlingham College, St Michael the Archangel church and Framlingham Town football club.

* Michael Corrente, independent film director

In 1077, Pope Gregory VII recognised Duklja as an independent state, acknowledging its King Mihailo ( Michael, of the Vojislavljević dynasty founded by nobleman Stefan Vojislav ) as Rex Doclea ( King of Duklja ).

Michael Anthony Jackson ( born 1936 ) is a British computer scientist, and independent computing consultant in London, England.

In September 1985, the Basilian Fathers decided to refuse provincial aid and return St. Michael ’ s to its Catholic roots as a fully independent, Catholic high school.

A prince from the overthrown Byzantine ruling family, Michael Comnenus, made alliances with Albanian chiefs and drove the Venetians from lands that now make up southern Albania and northern Greece, and in 1204 he set up an independent principality, the Despotate of Epirus, with Ioannina in northwest Greece ) as its capital.

While academic attention has remained, perhaps disproportionately, focused on poetry from Northern Ireland, several of the younger generation of Irish poets ( William Wall, Justin Quinn, Caitriona O ' Reilly ) have proved perceptive and independent critics of the contemporary scene, as have several older poets who are also literary critics, such as Hugh McFadden, Dennis O ' Driscoll and Michael Smith.

Young God Records is an independent record label formed by Michael Gira in 1990 that specializes in experimental, avant-garde and often non genre-specific releases.

After composing for several independent films, including Crime and Punishment in Suburbia in 2000 ( where he collaborated again with Black ), Santiago co-scored the Fox Network TV series Undeclared with Michael Andrews.

It was founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne as a film distributor, later becoming an independent film studio.

On February 17, 2006, Bernard Lord's government was reduced to a minority when Michael Malley crossed the floor to sit as an independent.

Having received 16, 961 votes in the first round, 189 votes behind the independent Michael Maye, Davies was returned in the second count on transfers of second preference votes, with 25, 344 votes to 24, 990.

Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk ( born 19 May 1942 ) is an English former politician, former independent Member of the European Parliament, and former television presenter, best known for his daytime talk show Kilroy.

In 1986 he with two other MPs Simon Hughes MP and Michael Meadowcroft MP and the National League of Young Liberals and other parts of the party produced the booklet Across the Divide Liberal Values on Defence and Disarmament This was the rally call that defeated the party leadership in the debate over the issue of an independent nuclear deterrent.

Accordingly, Michael Shersby first attended the local Breakspear primary state school and was later sent by his parents to The John Lyon School, an independent school in Harrow, for his secondary education.

The history of Zahumlje as a greater political entity starts with the emerging of Michael of Zahumlje, an independent Slavic ruler who flourished in the early part of the 10th century.

On the 1st January 1975, the University of Wollongong was incorporated by the New South Wales Parliament as an independent institution of higher learning consisting of five faculties ( Engineering, Humanities, Mathematics, Sciences, and Social Sciences ), with Professor Michael Birt as its inaugural Vice Chancellor.

However, Michael W. Holmes has pointed out that it is not certain " that Papias knew the story in precisely this form, inasmuch as it now appears that at least two independent stories about Jesus and a sinful woman circulated among Christians in the first two centuries of the church, so that the traditional form found in many New Testament manuscripts may well represent a conflation of two independent shorter, earlier versions of the incident.

Following the 2007 United Kingdom floods, which left 13 people dead, 44, 600 homes flooded and caused £ 3bn damage, Defra announced an independent review by Sir Michael Pitt.

Michael Andrew Johnson ( born 31 January 1970 ), an Australian federal politician, was a member of the Australian House of Representatives for the seat of Ryan, Queensland, from 2001 to 2010, representing the Liberal Party from November 2001 to May 2010 and then as an independent from May 2010 until he was defeated at the 2010 federal election in August 2010.