Steven Soderbergh

Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, and Videotape won the Palme d'Or in 1989 and is often credited with starting the American independent boom of the 1990s. He has kept experimenting with how small films reach people: Bubble (2005) opened in cinemas, on cable and on DVD almost simultaneously, and his Section Eight company with George Clooney produced riskier projects by other directors. He treats distribution as part of the creative problem.