Albert, together with brother David Maysles, are the documentary filmmaking team credited with founding "direct cinema" with films including, "Salesman" (1968), "Gimme Shelter" (1970) and "Grey Gardens" (1976).
Since David Maysles dead in 1987, Albert has continued to make films on his own and, in
Initially a photographer, Agnès Varda has been making films since 1956, and is one of the few women associated with the French New Wave, though more accurately, work by Varda belongs more precisely to the complementary Rive Gauche (Left Bank Cinema) movement, along with Chris Marker, Alain Resnais,