Anna Karina was a Danish-French film avant garde actress, director, writer, and singer. She rose to prominence as French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard's muse in the 1960s performing in several of his films, including The Little Soldier, A Woman Is a Woman, My Life to Live, Bande à part (Band of Outsiders), Pierrot le Fou (Crazy Pete) and Alphaville. For her performance in A Woman Is a Woman, Karina won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival.

Agnès Varda (30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist. Her pioneering work was central to the development of the widely influential French New Wave film movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Her films focused on achieving documentary realism, addressing women's issues, and other social commentary, with a distinctive experimental style.

A movie critic who became one of the major filmmakers of the Nouvelle Vague. Over the years, Godard's existentialist Marxism lost the luster it once had, but his work of the 1960s is still considered part of the canon of great cinema.

Claude Henri Jean Chabrol was a member of the French New Wave, colleague of Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer and Rivette. His trademarks were very unique thriller movies, like his masterpiece The Butcher.

Jean Rouch has 39 credits at Criticker, including: Chronicle of a Summer, The Mad Masters and Moi un noir

Mark Halliley has 9 credits at Criticker, including: The Wildest Dream, The Apprentice, The Planets and Jamie's Kitchen

Raoul Coutard has 8 credits at Criticker, including: Contempt, Godard, l'amour, la poésie, Hoa-Binh and S.A.S. San Salvador