4. Andrea Arnold
Key Work: Red Road Most Recent/ Upcoming Project: Wuthering Heights Very different to Ramsay, but at the same time cut from the same cloth, Arnold provides us with harrowing and all-too realistic portraits of what our society is like now. We need more filmmakers like her the world over. Ladies and gentlemen, we have this generation's Ken Loach- Arnold is distinct, unique, and shows no signs of slowing down. She is another of the new batch of great british directors, and another real auteur. Whatever she comes out with next after her bold reinvention of the Bronte classic Wuthering Heights, I will be in the front row on opening night.