filmmaker vs New Waver

filmmaker and New Waver both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
filmmaker	Yes	No	No	No
New Waver	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, New Waver is a hyponym of filmmaker; that is, New Waver is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than filmmaker:

Other hyponyms of filmmaker include auteur, director, film director.

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