New Waver vs film maker

New Waver and film maker both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
New Waver	Yes	No	No	No
film maker	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, film maker is a hypernym of New Waver; that is, film maker is a word with a broader meaning than New Waver:

Other hypernyms of New Waver include film producer, filmmaker, movie maker.

New Waver (noun)	film maker (noun)
a film maker who follows New Wave ideas	a producer of motion pictures