Sebastián Silva and Derek Cianfrance among Filmmaker Magazine’s 2009 Top 25 List

The current issue of Filmmaker Magazine has hit kiosks and the only reason why I’d be pointing this out is because it includes its annual “25 New Faces” feature (available here) which is basically: a sampling of the future voices, filmmakers, editors, actors and cinematographers who in the opinion of the magazine’s editors represent the future of independent filmmaking and who, I admittedly know only two of the twenty-five.

Sebastián Silva helmed The Maid, got rave reviews at Sundance and got picked up by Elephant Eye (read here), and Derek Cianfrance, who finally commenced filming Blue Valentine with thesps Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams on board – 2 bucks says that this preems in Park City.

Here are the names of those who made the cut: docu-filmmaker Ian Olds (Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi), filmmaking duo Eleanor Burke & Ron Eyal (Stranger Things), editor Nat Sanders (The Freebie), filmmaker Jessica Oreck (Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo), filmmaker Jeff Mizushima (Etienne!), the founders of the video upload site LostZombies.com, DoP Paula Huidobro (Gardens of the Night), filmmaker Steph Green (New Boy), DoP Bradford Young (Pariah), docu filmmaking team of Michael Palmieri & Donal Mosher (October Country), actress/director Paola Mendoza (Entre nos), filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12), filmmaker Morgan Jon Fox (This is What Love in Action Looks Like), filmmaking team The Purchase Brothers (Escape From City 17), docu-filmmaker Nicole Opper (Off and Running), filmmaker Asiel Norton (Redland), filmmaker Andrew T. Betzer (John Wayne Hated Horses), filmmaker Tina Mabry (Mississippi Damned), filmmaker Frankie Latina (Modus Operandi), filmmaker Lena Dunham (Creative Nonfiction), filmmaker Geoff Marslett (Mars), actress Rooney Mara (Youth in Revolt), DoP Jody Lee Lipes (NY Export: Opus Jazz, The Film) and once again, Cianfrance and Silva.