Jim Jarmusch, Filmmaker

Jarmusch came to New York City from Akron, Ohio to study at Columbia and NYU's film school. He would also study film at the Cinematheque Francaise in Paris. He worked as an assistant on Lightning Over Water (1980), a film by Nicholas Ray and Wim Wenders, before making his first film, _Permanent Vacation (1982)_, made for roughly $15,000. After much hustling, he found a German producer by the name of Otto Grokenberger, who stayed out of his way and provided him with complete artistic control. The result was the highly stimulating Stranger Than Paradise (1984), a film he structured around Screamin' Jay Hawkins' song, "I Put A Spell On You", and which would go on to win the Camera D'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.

2013 Only Lovers Left Alive
 2009 The Limits of Control
 2005 Broken Flowers
 2003 Coffee and Cigarettes
 2002 Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (segment "Int. Trailer Night")
 1999 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
 1997 Year of the Horse (Documentary)
 1995 Coffee and Cigarettes III (Short)
 1995 Dead Man
 1991 Night on Earth
 1990 Red Hot and Blue (TV Movie) (segment "It's All Right With Me")
 1989 Coffee and Cigarettes II (Short)
 1989 Mystery Train
 1988 Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant (Video)
 1986 Coffee and Cigarettes (Short)
 1986 Down by Law
 1984 Stranger Than Paradise
 1983 Stranger Than Paradise (Short)
 1980 Permanent Vacation