cineaste

American  

[sin-ee-ast, sin-ey-] / ˈsɪn iˌæst, ˈsɪn eɪ- /

Or cineast,

noun

1. any person, especially a director or producer, associated professionally with filmmaking.

2. an aficionado of filmmaking.

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cineaste British  

/ ˈsɪnɪˌæst /

noun

1. an enthusiast for films

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Etymology

Origin of cineaste

1925–30; < French cinéaste, equivalent to ciné- cine- + -aste, as in ecclésiaste, gymnaste, etc.

Example Sentences

As a young cineaste, Linklater once said he loved “anything by Godard.”

From Los Angeles Times

Kogonada earned the industry’s attention as a cineaste who spliced together video supercuts illustrating the techniques of auteurs like Ozu, Kubrick and Wes Anderson.

From Los Angeles Times

I’m a champion of the film, and so, too, I reckon is the cineaste I saw inside the Lightbox theater wearing a souvenir T-shirt who’d scratched out the “Toronto” with black marker to scrawl, “Winnipeg.”

From Los Angeles Times

Silvia Del Carmen Castaños was a student in a Laredo, Texas, high school when the budding cineaste submitted a short piece to a community film festival.

From Los Angeles Times

What can I say — “Boyhood” was moving and meaningful, while “Birdman” was pretentious and obtuse, and none of my cinéaste colleagues are going to persuade me otherwise.

From New York Times