Margarethe von Trotta (born 21 February 1942) is a German film director who has been referred to as a "leading force" of the New German Cinema movement.
 Von Trotta boasts an impressive body of work that has won her awards all over the world in the last forty years.
 She was married to and collaborated with director Volker Schlöndorff.
 Although they made a successful team, von Trotta felt she was seen as secondary to Schlöndorff.
 Subsequently, she established a solo career for herself and became "Germany’s foremost female film director, who has offered the most sustained and successful female variant of "Autorenkino" in postwar German film history."
 Certain aspects of von Trotta’s work have been compared to Ingmar Bergman’s features from the 1960s and 1970s.
 She says that it was thanks to Bergman's films that she "‘fell in love’ with the medium and its possibilities for representing inner psychic worlds."
Tatsumi Kumashiro (神代 辰巳 , "Kumashiro Tatsumi" ) was a Japanese film director known for his critically acclaimed, award-winning "Roman Porno" films, such as "Ichijo's Wet Lust" (1972) and "The Woman with Red Hair" (1979).
 He was the most highly acclaimed director of the early Nikkatsu Roman Porno era, with many box-office successes, and films regularly appearing on the yearly Best Ten lists of the mainstream "Kinema Junpo" and "Eiga Geijutsu" film journals.
 Kumashiro has been called, "the most consistently successful director in Japan's cinematic history," and Allmovie calls him, "arguably the most important Japanese director to emerge during the 1970s."
Lola Perrin is a minimalist composer and pianist with jazz influences.
 She is American (with roots in the Ukraine and Hungary) and lives in London.
 She is the sister of jazz and world music composer and pianist Roland Perrin.
 Lola says she takes her inspiration from artists such as Edward Hopper, Ansel Adams, Rachel Whiteread, Carsten Hoeller and the Irish author Christopher Nolan.
 Her debut album is titled Fragile Light.
Christopher Edward Nolan ( ; born 30 July 1970) is an English-American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
 He is one of the highest-grossing directors in history, and among the most successful and acclaimed filmmakers of the 21st century.
Jean Renoir (] ; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author.
 As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s.
 His films "La Grande Illusion" (1937) and "The Rules of the Game" (1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made.
 He was ranked by the BFI's "Sight & Sound" poll of critics in 2002 as the fourth greatest director of all time.
 Among numerous honors accrued during his lifetime, he received a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award in 1975 for his contribution to the motion picture industry.
 Renoir was the son of the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
 He was one of the first filmmakers to be known as an "auteur".
Christopher Nolan (born 1970) is an English-American film director, writer and producer.
Zhang Junzhao (; born 1952) is a Chinese film director and screenwriter who was mainly active in the 1980s.
 A graduate of the Beijing Film Academy and a contemporary of such acclaimed directors as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Tian Zhuangzhuang, Zhang Junzhao was a prominent early member of China's Fifth Generation filmmakers.
 His 1984 film "One and Eight" ("Yi ge he ba ge") is well known as a film that marked the advent of the Fifth Generation, while "The Shining Arc" (弧光; "Hu guang", 1988) was nominated for the Golden St. George award at the 1989 Moscow International Film Festival.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, and music director.
 One of the most critically acclaimed filmmakers in Indian cinema, Bhansali is the recipient of several awards, including four National Film Awards and ten Filmfare Awards.
 In 2015, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award.
The Director's Cut Awards () is an annual awards ceremony for excellence in film in South Korea.
 It is presented by the Korea Film Director's Network (KFDN), a group of approximately 300 Korean filmmakers.
 The KFDN selects winners in the Korean film industry in eight categories: Director, Actor (Male/Female), New Director, New Actor (Male/Female), Producer and Independent Film Director.
 It was launched in 1998 by film director Lee Hyun-seung with a membership of "young generation" directors in their twenties to forties.
Maria Novaro (born Maria Luisa Novaro Peñloza, September 11, 1951 in Mexico City) is a Mexican film director.
 She was amongst the first generation of female filmmakers to graduate from a Mexican film school.
 She has made five feature films and fourteen short films. Within the Mexican film industry, she has been a cinematographer, sound mixer, director, screenwriter and editor.
 Today, Novaro is one of the best known Mexican filmmakers to come out of the New Mexican Cinema and her films express Millian’s idea of cinema in feminine.

Question: Lola Perrin says she takes her inspiration from atists such as an English-American film director who is among the most successful and acclaimed filmmakers of what?
Answer: the 21st century