Johnny Ma (born Ma Nan in Shanghai) is a Chinese-Canadian film director and screenwriter.
 He is best known for his debut feature film "Old Stone", which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2016.
 The film won the awards for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, and Best First Feature at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017.
Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English children's novelist and playwright, known best for the novel "The Hundred and One Dalmatians" (1956).
 Other works include "I Capture the Castle" (1948), and "The Starlight Barking" (1967).
 "The Hundred and One Dalmatians" was adapted into a 1961 Disney animated movie version.
 Her novel "I Capture the Castle" was adapted into a 2003 movie version.
 "I Capture the Castle" was voted number 82 as "one of the nation's 100 best-loved novels" by the British public as part of the BBC's The Big Read (2003).
Affinity is a 2008 UK film adaptation of Sarah Waters' 1999 novel of the same name; directed by Tim Fywell and screenplay by Andrew Davies.
 The film was nominated for the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series.
Tim Fywell (born 3 October 1951 in Fulham, London, England) is a well respected English, television and film director.
 In 2003 he made his first feature debut with "I Capture the Castle", an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Dodie Smith.
 Fywell directed his first Hollywood feature, "Ice Princess" starring Michelle Trachtenberg, in 2005.
 Fywell started his career in British television, directing episodes of "Brookside".
 Fywell recently directed the award winning "Happy Valley" 2 episodes (2014).
Vernon Zimmerman is an American writer and director who made his feature debut as director with the 1962 short "Lemon Hearts" starring Andy Warhol associate Taylor Mead.
 Zimmerman wrote and directed the Claudia Jennings roller derby drive-in film "Unholy Rollers" and collaborated with Terrence Malick on the script to the road movie "Deadhead Miles".
 He is most well known for his horror slasher film "Fade to Black", a dark and despairing psychological study of an awkward and alienated hardcore film buff who exacts a harsh revenge on his cruel tormentors.
 Zimmerman received a Saturn Award nomination as Best Director for the film, a predecessor to more well-known modern parodies of the horror genre.
 Vernon also wrote the scripts for the horror-Western "Hex" (a.k.a. "Charmed"), the redneck crime exploitation film "Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw", the made-for-TV wrestling comedy/drama "Mad Bull", the failed TV pilot film "Shooting Stars", and the teen fantasy comedy "Teen Witch".
 Zimmerman's latest film is the six-minute comic short "Chuck and Wally on the Road".
 More recently Vernon has been working as a script analyst.
 He also teaches screen-writing courses at UCLA's Extension and Certificate Program.
 Zimmerman also taught classes on both writing feature scripts and directing actors for film and television at the USC School of Cinema and Television.
 Vernon Zimmerman lives in Los Angeles and is a member of both the Writers Guild of America and the Directors Guild of America.
I Capture the Castle is a 2003 British film directed by Tim Fywell.
 It is based on the 1948 novel of the same title by Dodie Smith, with the screenplay written by Heidi Thomas.
 The film was released in the UK on 9 May 2003.
The Turn of the Screw (also known as Ghost Story: The Turn of the Screw) is a British television film based on Henry James's 1898 ghost story of the same name.
 Commissioned and produced by the BBC, it was first broadcast on 30 December 2009, on BBC One.
 The novella was adapted for the screen by Sandy Welch, and the film was directed by Tim Fywell.
 Although generally true to the tone and story of James's work, the film is set in the 1920s—in contrast to the original 1840s setting—and accentuates sexual elements that some theorists have identified in the novella.
 The film's story is told in flashbacks during consultations between the institutionalised Ann (Michelle Dockery) and Dr Fisher (Dan Stevens).
 Ann tells how she was hired by an aristocrat (Mark Umbers) to care for the orphans Miles (Josef Lindsay) and Flora (Eva Sayer).
 She is met at the children's home, Bly, by Mrs Grose (Sue Johnston), the housekeeper.
 Ann soon begins to see unknown figures around the manor, and seeks an explanation.
Bright Road is a 1953 low-budget film adapted from the Christopher Award-winning short story "See How They Run" by Mary Elizabeth Vroman.
 Directed by Gerald Mayer and featuring a nearly all-black cast, the film stars Dorothy Dandridge as an idealistic first-year elementary school teacher trying to reach out to a problem student.
 The movie is also notable as the first feature film appearance by Harry Belafonte, who co-stars as the principal of the school.
Delivering is a 1993 short film that Todd Field, while a fellow at the AFI Conservatory, adapted from the story of the same name by Andre Dubus.
 It is a dramatic piece that takes place on the day two brothers discover their mother has abandoned the family.
 This film is notable as it was the first time Field adapted Dubus' work to film.
 The next time would be for his Academy Award nominated feature debut, "In the Bedroom", which was based on Dubus' short story, "Killings".
 Years after Field's graduation from the AFI, "Delivering" continued to be screened in the classroom.
The Mandrake Root is a 2008 comedy drama film adapted and directed by Malachi Bogdanov as his first feature film.
 The film was produced by Simon M. Woods as the first film release of European Drama Network.

Question: Tim Fywell made his first feature debut in a film adapted from a novel by an auithor born in what year?
Answer: 1896