FM says these are 25 filmmakers to watch:

 list this year are (with links to their site for content and contact info): [1 - 5] 1) Olivia Thirlby, 2) Linas Phillips, 3) Ham Tran, 4) So Yong Kim, 5) Scott Z. Burns, [6 - 10] 6) Antonio Campos, 7) Gary Huggins, 8) Carter Smith, 9) Astra Taylor, 10) Michele Civetta, [11 - 15] 11) Esther Robinson, 12) Alex Karpovsky, 13) Aurora Guerrero, 14) Eunhee Cho, 15) Neistat Brothers, [16 - 20] 16) Nee Brothers, 17) Pastor Brothers, 18) Michael Tully, 19) Paul Soter, 20) Lars Knudsen & Jay Van Hoy, [21 - 25] 21) John Maringouin, 22) Sameh Zoabi, 23) Kevin Jerome Everson, 24) Todd Rohal, 25) PJ Raval.

Do check them out here.