director vs filmmaker

director and filmmaker both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
director	Yes	No	No	No
filmmaker	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, filmmaker is a hypernym of director; that is, filmmaker is a word with a broader meaning than director:

Other hypernyms of director include film maker, film producer, movie maker.

director (noun)	filmmaker (noun)
someone who controls resources and expenditures	a producer of motion pictures
the person who leads a musical group
someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
member of a board of directors
the person who directs the making of a film