Angela Ismailos


Angela Ismailos is the director of the documentary Great Directors.

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Angela Ismailos is a Greek-born director, actor, and writer. She directed and produced Great Directors, a film that features interviews and archival footage of ten great living film directors of independent cinema. Ismailos gives in-depth interviews with Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Todd Haynes, Richard Linklater, Ken Loach, David Lynch, John Sayles, and Agnès Varda. Ismailos studied law and has a master's degree in political science. She is classically trained as an actor and opera singer and began directing plays at a very early age. Ismailos lives and works in New York City and is currently preparing her next feature film, The City of A Dead Woman.