Full list:
1. Ali Abbasi
2. Ari Aster
3. 畢贛
4. Jayro Bustamante
5. Mati Diop
6. Robert Eggers
7. Rose Glass
8. 濱口龍介
9. Alma Har’el
10. Kirsten Johnson
11. Jennifer Kent
12. Oliver Laxe
13. Francis Lee
14. Pietro Marcello
15. David Robert Mitchell
16. Jordan Peele
17. Jennifer Reeder
18. Alice Rohrwacher
19. 允佳恩
20. Chloé Zhao
“I do not wish to summon these 20 directors for the sake of discussing the future of cinema. I simply wish to discuss the films they have already created. But in the end, this inevitably concerns the future of cinema. Because, when we watched Wong Kar Wai’s second film ‘Days of Being Wild’ (1990), we might have already dreamed of ‘In the Mood for Love’ (2000) in our minds. Or when we watched ‘Blood Simple’ (1985) by the Coen brothers, we might have already been experiencing ‘No Country for Old Men’ (2007), which would come two decades later.”
https://www.indiewire.com/2020/02/bong-joon-ho-20-directors-shape-cinema-future-1202213338/?fbclid=IwAR2NOJ7WZw7Uwdzf912yh4TANbYCWinLAWXNFIwpx2onx5ShJb-EmHcZLwU