Having previously worked as an assistant director, Siddharth praised Mehra as being "by far the most ambitious technical filmmaker in Indian cinema".

And so ambitious filmmakers - especially French ones - are faced with the challenge of how to bring genuine erotic heat to the screen.

The fund also offered Signature Awards to help further encourage ambitious and original filmmakers and projects.

Emilie Blézat founded Sciapode in 2003 to produce films by "strong and ambitious filmmakers."

His initial production costs were $218, a number that has probably already illuminated light bulbs in the minds of other ambitious and poor young filmmakers with miserable childhoods to recount.

Each of these films, like many shorts, is both an attempt at self-expression and a calling card from an ambitious filmmaker who would like to graduate to full-length features.

The feckless narcissism of young white men, after all, is an inexhaustible (if frequently tiresome) subject for ambitious, allegedly independent filmmakers.

So they provide a good starting place for ambitious would-be filmmakers who can't get more conventional projects off the ground.

But even more ambitious filmmakers like Samuelson and Hepworth were pushed out by the difficulties involved in making film production profitable.

It is hardly surprising that these migrations have provided ambitious filmmakers like Mr. Winterbottom with a new reservoir of stories.