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Question: When did William Le Poer Trench's father die?

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Power Le Poer Trench
Power Le Poer Trench (1770–1839) was an Anglican clergyman who served in the Church of Ireland as firstly Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, then Bishop of Elphin and finally Archbishop of Tuam 

Life
He was the second surviving son of William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty, among his nine brothers and nine sisters was his elder brother Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, and Lady Emily La Touche was a younger sister  Born in Sackville Street, Dublin, on 10 June 1770, he was first educated at a preparatory school at Putney, whence he went for a short time to Harrow, and afterwards at the academy of Mr  Ralph at Castlebar, in the immediate neighbourhood of his home  Trench matriculated at Trinity College, Dublin, on 2 July 1787, where his tutor was Matthew Young, afterwards bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, and graduated B A  on 13 July 1791  Later in the same year (27 November) Trench was ordained deacon, and, having received priest's orders on 24 June 1792, he was in the same month inducted into the benefice of Creagh, in which his father's residence and the great fair town of Ballinasloe were situated  In the following year (5 November 1793) he was presented to the benefice of Rawdenstown, County Meath  He obtained a faculty to hold the two cures together, and combined with their clerical duties the business of agent on his father's Galway estate  Trench was a man of great bodily strength and a fine horseman, and he retained a fondness for field sports to the end of his days  During the Irish rebellion of 1798 he acted as a captain in the local yeomanry raised by his father to resist the French invading army under Humbert 
In 1802 Trench was appointed to the see of Waterford, in succession to Richard Marlay, and was consecrated on 21 November 1802  In 1810 he was translated to the bishopric of Elpin, and, on the death of Archbishop Beresford, was on 4 October 1819 advanced to the archepiscopal see of Tuam  In May 1834, on the death of James Verschoyle, the united sees of Killala and Achonry were, under the provisions of the Irish Church Temporalities Act, added to the charge of Trench  By the same act, the archdiocese of Tuam was reduced, on Trench's death, to an ordinary bishopric 
In the history of the Irish church Trench chiefly deserves to be remembered for his activity in promoting the remarkable evangelical movement in the west of Ireland which was known in Connaught as the Second Reformation, and which, chiefly through the agency of the Irish Society, made a vigorous effort to win converts to Protestantism  From 1818 to his death Trench was president of the Irish Society; and it is evidence of his large-heartedness that the religious controversies in which his leadership of this movement involved no wise impaired the remarkable personal popularity which he enjoyed among his Roman Catholic neighbours  Holding strong views as to the paramount importance of the 'open bible,' Trench was a strenuous opponent of the mixed system of national education founded by Mr  Stanley (Lord Derby), and was one of the founders of the Church Education Society  Trench was a man of strong and masterful character, and during the twenty years of his archiepiscopate was one of the foremost figures in the Ireland of his day 
He died on 26 March 1839  Trench married, on 29 January 1795, his cousin Anne, daughter of Walter Taylor of Castle Taylor, co  Galway  By her, he had two sons, William and Power, and six daughters  Elizabeth, his third daughter, married Captain Henry Gascoyne in 1830  Another daughter Anne married James O'Hara, MP for Galway in 1823 
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Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty
Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, 1st Marquess of Heusden  (19 May 1767 – 24 November 1837), styled The Honourable from 1797 to 1803 and then Viscount Dunlo to 1805, was an Anglo-Irish peer, a nobleman in the Dutch nobility, and a diplomat  He was an Irish, and later British, Member of Parliament and a supporter of Pitt  Additionally he was appointed Postmaster General of Ireland, and later, of the United Kingdom 

Background and education
Clancarty was the son of William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty and Anne, daughter of Charles Gardiner and his seat was Garbally Court in Ballinasloe, East County Galway where he was associated with the Great October Fair  His brother was Power Le Poer Trench (1770–1839), archbishop of Tuam  He was educated at Kimbolton School and St John's College, Cambridge 

Political career
Trench represented Newtown Limavady in the Irish House of Commons from 1796 to 1798  He sat further for County Galway from 1798 to a short time before the Act of Union, when he was replaced by "Humanity Dick" Martin 
He was credited with resolving various border disputes in Holland, Germany and Italy at the Congress of Vienna, 1814–1815, and in his role as Ambassador to the Netherlands  For his service as ambassador to The Hague, he was awarded the hereditary title of Marquess of Heusden in the peerage of The Netherlands on 8 July 1815 by William I of the Netherlands, following the defeat of Napoleon in Brabant, in that same province's southern reaches  Trench was elected one of the 28 representative peers of Ireland on 16 December 1808  His seat in the House of Lords became hereditary when he was created Baron Trench (4 August 1815) and Viscount Clancarty (created 8 December 1823), in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, his older peerages being Irish peerages  He was a Commissioner for the Affairs of India and Custos Rotulorum of County Galway 
In the same Royal Decree that awarded the Marquessate of Heusden, K B  of 8 July 1815, numbers 13 and 14, and Arthur Wellesley was granted the Netherlands' Kingdom hereditary nobility-title Prince of Waterloo, following his recent exploits at Waterloo in modern-day Kingdom of Belgium 

Postmaster General
Between 1807 and 1809 Trench was one of the joint Postmasters General of Ireland and he was appointed Postmaster General of the United Kingdom being one of the last joint holders of that office from 1814 to 1816 

Family
On 6 February 1796 he married Henrietta Margaret Staples, daughter of John Staples and Harriet Conolly  They had the following children:

Lady Lucy Le Poer Trench (d  1839), married Robert Maxwell
Lady Louisa Augusta Anne Le Poer Trench (b  23 December 1796, d  7 February 1881), married Reverend William Le Poer Trench
Lady Harriet Margaret Le Poer Trench (b  13 October 1799, d  1885), married Thomas Kavanagh "the MacMurrough", a descendant of Art mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh
Lady Emily Florinda Le Poer Trench (b  7 November 1800), married Giovanni Cossiria
Lady Frances Power Le Poer Trench (b  22 January 1802, d  28 December 1804)
William Thomas Le Poer Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty (b 21 September 1803, d  26 April 1872), married Lady Sarah Juliana Butler, daughter of Somerset Richard Butler, 3rd Earl of Carrick
Hon  Richard John Le Poer Trench (b  1805)
Commander Hon  Frederick Robert Le Poer Trench (b  23 July 1808, d  April 1867), married Catherine Maria Thompson

Ancestry
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Power Henry Le Poer Trench
Power Henry Le Poer Trench (11 May 1841 – 30 April 1899) was a British diplomat Trench was the son of William Thomas Le Poer Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty and Lady Sarah Juliana Butler 

Career
Trench was Secretary of the British Embassy in Berlin between 1888 and 1893 In Mexico, he was the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary  between 1893 and 1894 He was the British Minister in Tokyo in 1894-1895 

See also
List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Japan
Anglo-Japanese relations

Notes
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Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham 
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997 
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Nicholas Trench, 9th Earl of Clancarty
Nicholas Le Poer Trench, 9th Earl of Clancarty, 8th Marquess of Heusden (born 1 May 1952), is an Anglo-Irish peer, as well as a nobleman in the Dutch nobility  Lord Clancarty serves as an elected Crossbench hereditary peer in the British House of Lords  His earldom is in the Peerage of Ireland  He was educated at Westminster School  He also studied at Ashford Grammar School, Plymouth Polytechnic, University of Colorado, Denver, USA, and Sheffield University 

Family
Lord Clancarty was born in Uxbridge, on 1 May 1952, the only son of Power Edward Ford Le Poer Trench, second son of the fifth Earl from his second marriage  He is married to the journalist Victoria Lambert and has one daughter with her 

Membership of House of Lords
In 1995 he succeeded to the titles on the death of his childless uncle, Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty  He took his seat in the House of Lords at this time as Viscount Clancarty, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, because titles in the Peerage of Ireland did not entitle their holders to sit even before the House of Lords Act 1999 removed the majority of the hereditary peers 
Under the terms of that Act, Clancarty lost his automatic right to a seat; he was unsuccessful in the election by the Crossbench hereditary peers of 28 of their number to continue to sit after the Act came into force, finishing 37th in a field of 79 candidates He was an unsuccessful candidate in four by-elections caused by the deaths of sitting hereditary peers, being runner-up on two occasions  In 2010 he returned to the House after winning the by-election to replace the 4th Viscount Colville of Culross Besides being a British and an Irish peer, he also belongs to the Dutch nobility as Marquess of Heusden  Besides H M  King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, who is also Marquess of Veere and Vlissingen, Lord Clancarty is the only marquess in Dutch nobility 

Career
Clancarty is a self-employed artist, freelance writer, and translator 
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Robert Le Poer Trench
Robert Le Poer Trench (c 1811 – 8 February 1895) was a judge and an Attorney-General of Victoria Trench was the third son of Ven  Charles Le Poer Trench, D D , of Ballinasloe, County Galway, Archdeacon of Ardagh, and grandson of the first Earl of Clancarty  He entered as a student of the Middle Temple in May 1839, and was called to the Bar in June 1842  Having emigrated to Victoria, he was clerk of petty sessions at Kilmore, Victoria and afterwards at Ballarat  In 1855 he was admitted to the Victorian Bar, and quickly obtained a large practice, especially in mining cases  Though he never entered parliament he was Attorney-General in the first Graham Berry Government from August to October 1875, and in Berry's second Administration, from May 1877 to March 1878, when he was appointed a Commissioner of Land Tax, and a County Court Judge in April 1880  Mr  Trench, who was appointed Q C  in 1878, subsequently retired on a pension 
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William Le Poer Trench
Colonel The Hon  William Le Poer Trench CVO, JP (17 June 1837 – 16 September 1920) was an Anglo-Irish politician and British army officer 
He was the third son of William Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty and Lady Sarah Juliana Butler 
He married Harriet Maria Georgina Martins, daughter of Sir William Martins, on 21 April 1864 
He fought in the Second Opium War between 1857 and 1858, commanding a ladder company at the capture of Guangzhou and Nankow, and was mentioned in despatches  He gained the rank of Colonel in the service of the Royal Engineers 
Between 1872 and 1874, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for County Galway, having unseated the elected MP, John Philip Nolan, on petition; the case was one of the most controversial Irish cases of its time and permanently damaged the reputation of the judge, William Keogh 
He held the office of Justice of the Peace for Westminster, London, Buckinghamshire, and Middlesex  He was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1912 He was scandalised by the marriage on 10 July 1889 of his 20-year-old son and heir, William LePoer-Trench, to a London showgirl, Isabel Maud Penrice Bilton, who used the stage name of Belle   As a result, he did all in his power to dissolve the marriage   When this was unsuccessful he stopped his son's allowance, and resorted to selling lands in order to diminish his heir's eventual income, but his daughter-in-law's income from the stage was too great for these expedients to have much impact 
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William Le Poer Trench (Royal Navy officer)
Rear-Admiral The Hon  William Le Poer Trench (4 July 1771 – 14 August 1846) was born in Garbally, Galway, Ireland to William Power Keating Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty and Anne Gardiner  He acted for a considerable period as the agent of the estates of his father's family in Ireland He was made a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1793; promoted to the rank of Commander in 1799; to that of Post Captain 1802; and to that of Rear Admiral in 1840 In 1819 he was appointed Secretary to the Board of Customs and Port Duties in Ireland 

Family
He was married twice, first on 8 March 1800 to Sarah Cuppage, daughter of John Loftus Cuppage  Sarah died in June 1834, and on 1 February 1837 William married a second time to Margaret Downing, daughter of Dawson Downing and Anne Boyd 

See also
O'Byrne, William Richard (1849)  "Trench, William Le Poer"   A Naval Biographical Dictionary   John Murray – via Wikisource 
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Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty
William Francis Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, 7th Marquess of Heusden (18 September 1911 – 18 May 1995) was a prominent ufologist   He was an Irish peer, as well as a nobleman in the Dutch nobility 

Biography
He was the fifth son of William Frederick Le Poer Trench, 5th Earl of Clancarty by Mary Gwatkin Ellis  He had four older half-brothers born to the 5th Earl's first wife, Isabel Maud Penrice Bilton, the actress known as Belle Bilton, who died of cancer in 1906  Brinsley was educated at the Pangbourne Nautical College 
From 1956 to 1959 Clancarty edited the Flying Saucer Review and founded the International Unidentified Object Observer Corps  He also found employment selling advertising space for a gardening magazine housed opposite Waterloo station 
In 1967, he founded Contact International and served as its first president  He also served as vice-president of the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA)  Clancarty was an honorary life member of the now defunct Ancient Astronauts Society which supported the ideas put forward by Erich von Däniken in his 1968 book Chariots of the Gods? 
In 1975 he succeeded to the earldom on the death of his half-brother, Grenville Sydney Rocheforte, 7th Earl of Clancarty, giving him a seat in the British Parliament  He used his new position to found a UFO Study Group at the House of Lords, introducing Flying Saucer Review to its library and pushing for the declassification of UFO data 
Four years later he organised a celebrated debate in the House of Lords on UFOs which attracted many speeches on both sides of the question  In one debate, Lord Strabolgi, for the Government, declared that there was nothing to convince him that any alien spacecraft had ever visited the Earth 

Private life
Clancarty first married, in 1940, Diana (1919–1999), daughter of Sir William Younger, Bt  This marriage was dissolved in 1947  He married secondly, in 1961, Mrs Wilma Belknap (née Vermilyea) (1915–1995) and that marriage was dissolved in 1969  His third marriage was in 1974, to Mrs Mildred Allewyn Spong (née Bensusan) (1895–1975)  She died in 1975 but Clancarty remarried a fourth time, in 1976, to Mrs May Beasley (née Radonicich) (1904–2003) 
He lived most of his life in South Kensington and died in Bexhill-on-Sea in 1995, leaving his extensive collection of papers to Contact International 
He was succeeded to the earldom by his nephew Nicholas Le Poer Trench (b  1952) 

Hollow Earth theory
In 1974, Trench published Secret of the Ages: UFOs from Inside the Earth, a book which theorised that the centre of the Earth was hollow, with entrances to its interior located at both the north and south polar areas  The interior, he suggested, consisted of large tunnel systems connecting a large cavern world  Trench also believed that the lost continent of Atlantis actually once existed and that these tunnels were probably constructed all over the world by the Atlanteans, for various purposes 
Trench believed that there was no actual North Pole, but instead a large area with a warm sea dipping gradually into the interior of the Earth  He said that humans were 'living on the deck of a ship, unaware of the life going on under our feet'  One argument he put forward for this theory was that whilst the Earth is spherical, it is flattened at the poles  Additionally, he questioned how all icebergs could be composed of frozen fresh water, if no rivers were flowing from the inside of the Earth to the outside  He had also suggested that a large proportion of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) emanated from the Earth's interior  These objects were likely to have been created by a group of much more technically advanced beings, similar to humans, but a group that likely possessed extrasensory abilities, as well as the ability to manipulate psychic phenomena  Another argument for the Hollow Earth theory was that everything he suggested, nebulae, comets and planets, are hollow and these conditions would certainly prove favourable for a hollow Earth 
Whilst Trench had in one of his earlier books disregarded the Hollow Earth theory, he admitted to at the time 'being educated along with millions of other people to believe that the Earth had a liquid molten core' 

Other claims
According to Trench in his book The Sky People, Adam and Eve, Noah and many of the other characters from the Bible originally lived on Mars  Trench believed that Adam and Eve were experimental creations of extraterrestrials  His claim was that the Biblical description of the Garden of Eden was inconsistent with what was on Earth and as Mars contained canals, that the Garden of Eden must have been located on Mars  He further claimed that the north polar ice cap melted on Mars, and this caused the descendants of Adam and Eve to move to Earth Trench also claimed to know a former U S  test pilot who said he was one of six persons present at a meeting between President Eisenhower and a group of aliens, which allegedly took place at Edwards Air Force Base on 4 April 1954  Clancarty reported that the test pilot told him "Five different alien craft landed at the base  Three were saucer-shaped and two were cigar shaped    the aliens looked something like humans, but not exactly "He claimed that he could trace his descent from 63,000 BC, when beings from other planets had landed on Earth in spaceships 

Bibliography
The Sky People (1960)
Men Among Mankind (1962)
Forgotten Heritage (1964)
The Flying Saucer Story (1966)
Operation Earth (1969)
The Eternal Subject (1973)
Secret of the Ages: UFO's from Inside the Earth (1974) 
Reptiles from the Internal World (1979)
China in the Closet: A Romantic Mystery (1981)
Egos and Sub-Egos (1983)
UFOs: Just Shiny Birds? with Anna Robb (1984) 
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William Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty
William Thomas Le Poer Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty, 2nd Marquess of Heusden (21 September 1803 –  26 April 1872), styled Viscount Dunlo between 1805 and 1837, was an Irish peer, as well a nobleman in the Dutch nobility  He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge Trench was born in Castleton, County Kildare, Ireland the son of Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty and Henrietta Margaret Staples  On 8 September 1832, he married Lady Sarah Juliana Butler  They had six children 

Richard Somerset Le Poer Trench, 4th Earl of Clancarty (13 January 1834 – 29 May 1891) married Lady Adeliza Georgiana Hervey
Major Hon  Frederick Le Poer Trench (10 February 1835 – 17 December 1913) married (1) Harriet Mary Trench (2) Catherine Simpson
Colonel William Le Poer Trench (17 June 1837 – 16 September 1920) married Harriet Maria Georgina Martins
Lady Anne Le Poer Trench (1839 – 12 March 1924) married Frederic Sydney Charles Trench
Power Henry Le Poer Trench (11 May 1841 – 30 April 1899)
Lady Sarah Emily Grace Le Poer Trench (6 December 1843 – 2 August 1875) married John Melville Hatchell 



ground_truth: 26 April 1872

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Question: Where did the director of film American Gothic (2007 Film) graduate from?

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End of the World (1977 film)
End of the World is a 1977 American science fiction film directed by John Hayes 

Plot
NASA Professor Andrew Boran is a research scientist who discovers strange radio signals in outer space that appear to originate from Earth  The signals seem to predict natural disasters that are occurring around the globe 
When he and his wife Sylvia decide to investigate the source of the signals, they end up being held captive in a convent that has been infiltrated by aliens  These invaders, from the planet Utopia, plan to destroy the world with the natural disasters  They have replicated the original inhabits of the convent and now pose as the Father and the nuns 
While posing as the human Father Pergado, the alien leader Zindar explains Earth is a hotbed of disease that cannot be permitted to continue polluting the galaxy 
Boran and Sylvia decide in the end not to stop the destruction of Earth and instead return to Utopia with Zindar  To make the return safely, Zindar holds Sylvia hostage and demands that Boran steal a Variance Crystal from the lab so that they can escape the destruction of Earth  Earth then explodes 

Cast
Christopher Lee as Father Pergado / Zindar
Sue Lyon as Sylvia Boran
Kirk Scott as Professor Andrew Boran
Dean Jagger as Ray Collins
Lew Ayres as Commander Joseph Beckerman
Macdonald Carey as John Davis
Liz Ross as Sister Patrizia
Jon van Ness as Mr  Sanchez

Reception
Creature Feature found it to be cheap and plodding, giving it 1 5 out of 5 stars  TV Guide gave the movie 1 of 5 stars  Moria found the movie dull and legendarily bad, only worth viewing to see the early work of Charles Band, and gave the movie 1/2 of a star  It further said Lee gave a very good performance, much better than the movie deserved 

Production
Produced by Charles Band  Moria states that in an in an interview from the 1970s Lee said he was lied to about the quality of the film to be produced to get him to agree to star in the movie 

Release
Released on DVD in 2005 
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The Seventh Company Outdoors
The Seventh Company Outdoors (French: La Septième Compagnie au clair de lune) is a 1977 French comedy film directed by Robert Lamoureux  It is a sequel to Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to? 

Cast
Jean Lefebvre - Pithivier
Pierre Mondy - Chaudard
Henri Guybet - Tassin
Patricia Karim - Suzanne Chaudard
Gérard Hérold - Le commandant Gilles
Gérard Jugnot - Gorgeton
Jean Carmet - M  Albert, le passeur
André Pousse - Lambert
Michel Berto
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David Wexler (director)
David Wexler is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer  Wexler is a New York City native and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he majored in communication arts 
Prior to his feature films (Evil Weed, The Stand Up, Anchors, Turtle Island, Last Supper, and Vigilante), Wexler created and produced the reality show College Life for MTV Wexler has written and directed many commercials and corporate videos  He worked with Curtis Sliwa and the Guardian Angels to create a comic book and a handbook, as well as a clothing line available at Barking Irons 
Wexler founded the production company Cinema 59 Productions in 2006  Cinema 59 often works with Creative Diversions, a toy and game company to create 360 degree entertainment 
Wexler's film, Motorcycle Drive By, about Third Eye Blind, was an official selection of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival  In 2021 his game Fish Club was nominated for the Toy Of The Year Award  Most recently, his film Disintegration Loops was an official selection of the 2021 SXSW Film Festival 

Filmography (as writer, director)
American Gothic (2007)
My First Kiss (2008)
Evil Weed (2009)
The Stand Up (2010)
Anchors (2012)
Turtle Island (2012)
Last Supper (2018)
Vigilante: The Incredible True Story of Curtis Sliwa and the Guardian Angels (2018)
Motorcycle Drive By (2020)
Disintegration Loops (2021)

Filmography (as actor)
Turtle Island (2012)
I'm Not Here (2017)

Television (as creator/producer)
College Life (2009)

Web Series (as creator/producer)
Movie Life (2009)
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American Gothic (2007 film)
David Wexler is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer  Wexler is a New York City native and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he majored in communication arts 
Prior to his feature films (Evil Weed, The Stand Up, Anchors, Turtle Island, Last Supper, and Vigilante), Wexler created and produced the reality show College Life for MTV Wexler has written and directed many commercials and corporate videos  He worked with Curtis Sliwa and the Guardian Angels to create a comic book and a handbook, as well as a clothing line available at Barking Irons 
Wexler founded the production company Cinema 59 Productions in 2006  Cinema 59 often works with Creative Diversions, a toy and game company to create 360 degree entertainment 
Wexler's film, Motorcycle Drive By, about Third Eye Blind, was an official selection of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival  In 2021 his game Fish Club was nominated for the Toy Of The Year Award  Most recently, his film Disintegration Loops was an official selection of the 2021 SXSW Film Festival 

Filmography (as writer, director)
American Gothic (2007)
My First Kiss (2008)
Evil Weed (2009)
The Stand Up (2010)
Anchors (2012)
Turtle Island (2012)
Last Supper (2018)
Vigilante: The Incredible True Story of Curtis Sliwa and the Guardian Angels (2018)
Motorcycle Drive By (2020)
Disintegration Loops (2021)

Filmography (as actor)
Turtle Island (2012)
I'm Not Here (2017)

Television (as creator/producer)
College Life (2009)

Web Series (as creator/producer)
Movie Life (2009)
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Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to?
Now Where Did the 7th Company Get To? (French: Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie?) is a 1973 French-Italian comedy war film directed by Robert Lamoureux  The film portrays the adventures of a French Army squad lost somewhere on the front in May 1940 during the Battle of France 

Plot
During the Battle of France, while German forces are spreading across the country, the 7th Transmission Company suffers an air raid near the Machecoul woods, but survive and hide in the woods  Captain Dumont, the company commander, sends Louis Chaudard, Pithiviers and Tassin to scout the area  After burying the radio cable beneath a sandy road, the squad crosses the field, climbs a nearby hill, and takes position within a cemetery  One man cut down the wrong tree for camouflage, pulling up the radio cable and revealing it to the passing German infantry  The Germans cut the cable, surround the woods, and order a puzzled 7th Company to surrender  The squad tries to contact the company, but then witness their capture and run away 
Commanded by Staff Sergeant Chaudard, the unit stops in a wood for the night  Pithiviers is content to slow down and wait for the end of the campaign  The next day, he goes for a swim in the lake, in sight of possible German fighters  When Chaudard and Tassin wake up, they leave the camp without their weapons to look for Pithiviers  Tassin finds him and gives an angry warning, but Pithiviers convinces Tassin to join him in the lake  Chaudard orders them to get out, but distracted by a rabbit, falls into the lake  While Chaudard teaches his men how to swim, two German fighter planes appear, forcing them out of the water  After shooting down one of the German planes, a French pilot, Lieutenant Duvauchel, makes an emergency landing and escapes before his plane explodes  PFC Pithiviers, seeing the bad shape of one of his shoes, destroys what is left of his shoe sole  Tassin is sent on patrol to get food and a new pair of shoes for Pithiviers  Tassin arrives in a farm, but only finds a dog, so he returns and Chaudard goes to the farm after nightfall  The farmer returns with her daughter-in-law and Lt Duvauchel, and she welcomes Chaudard  Duvauchel, who is hiding behind the door, comes out upon hearing the news and decides to meet Chaudard's men 
When Chaudard and Duvauchel return to the camp, Tassin and Pithiviers are roasting a rabbit they caught  Duvauchel realizes that Chaudard has been lying and takes command 
The following day, the men leave the wood in early morning and capture a German armored tow truck after killing its two drivers  They originally planned to abandon the truck and the two dead Germans in the woods, but instead realized that the truck is the best way to disguise themselves and free the 7th Company  They put on the Germans' uniforms, recover another soldier of the 7th Company, who succeeded in escaping, and obtain resources from a collaborator who mistook them for Germans 
On their way, they encounter a National Gendarmerie patrol, who appear to be a 5th column  The patrol injures the newest member of their group, a young soldier, and then are killed by Tassin  In revenge, they destroy a German tank using the tow truck's cannon gun 
They planned to go to Paris but are misguided by their own colonel, but find the 7th Company with guards who are bringing them to Germany  Using their cover, they make the guards run in front of the truck, allowing the company to get away  When Captain Dumont joins his Chaudard, Tassin, and Pithiviers in the truck, who salute the German commander with a great smile 

Casting
Jean Lefebvre : PFC Pithiviers
Pierre Mondy : Staff Sergent Paul Chaudard
Aldo Maccione: PFC Tassin
Robert Lamoureux: Colonel Blanchet
Erik Colin: Lieutenant Duvauchel
Pierre Tornade: Captain Dumont
Alain Doutey: Carlier
Robert Dalban : The peasant
Jacques Marin: The collaborationist
Robert Rollis: A French soldier

Production
The film's success spawned two sequels:– 1975 : On a retrouvé la septième compagnie (The Seventh Company Has Been Found) by Robert Lamoureux;
– 1977 : La Septième Compagnie au clair de lune (The Seventh Company Outdoors)) by Robert Lamoureux The story is set in Machecoul woods, but it was actually filmed near Cerny and La Ferté-Alais, as well as Jouars-Pontchartrain and Rochefort-en-Yvelines  The famous grocery scene was filmed in Bazoches-Sur-Guyonne 
Robert Lamoureux based this film on his own personal experiences in June 1940 during the war 
The final scene with the parachute is based on a true story  The 58 Free French paratroopers were parachuted into Brittany in groups of three, on the night of 7 June 1944 to neutralize the rail network of Normandy Landings in Brittany, two days before 

Box office
The movie received a great success in France reaching the third best selling movie in 1974 

Notes
External links
Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie? at IMDb
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Olav Aaraas
Olav Aaraas (born 10 July 1950) is a Norwegian historian and museum director 
He was born in Fredrikstad  From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History  In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St  Olav 
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Jared Gold
Jared Gold (born 2 May 1972) is a fashion designer of avant-garde American Gothic fashion 

Biography
Gold grew up in Idaho Falls, Idaho and was a child piano prodigy long before he discovered fashion design  In 1990 he attended the Piano Conservatory of Hawaii for a year and soon after took up the harpsichord  Gold trained at Los Angeles' Otis Parson's School of Design  Gold is lead designer for his clothing company Black Chandelier  Gold has been creating fashion for men women and children since 1992, and shows his collections at events in Los Angeles as well as New York City  His collections are based in antiquated imagery, and use Victorian sewing details  Gold is the originator of the jewelled Giant Madagascar Hissing cockroach worn as jewelry known as the "Roach Brooch "

Life and career
Jared Gold's Czarina fashion show on March 14, 2008 was well reviewed in The Daily Titan, the student newspaper of Cal State Fullerton, which said Gold made the runway his "playground " In May 2006, he appeared as a guest judge on America's Next Top Model, in an episode that also featured his cockroach jewelry  In March 2009 Gold appeared as a special guest judge on Germany's Next Topmodel, hosted by Heidi Klum  Jared is known for his close friendship with writer Clint Catalyst  Metro Mix, a free nightlife guide in Los Angeles, said Catalyst is Gold's "muse " Catalyst has been hired as an event producer for some of Gold's fashion shows   In November 2009, the duo released their first collaborative design effort: a set of prize ribbons with awards such as "Epic" and "Hedonist ">

Gold appeared on Germany's Next Top Model  hosted by Heidi Klum, along with Jessicka and Catalyst on March 5, 2009 
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Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre 

Career
Since 1967, Levin has amassed a large number of credits directing episodic television and television films  Some of his television series credits include Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, James at 15, The Paper Chase, Family, Starsky & Hutch, Lou Grant, Fame, Cagney & Lacey, Law & Order and Judging Amy Some of his television film credits include Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case (1980), A Reason to Live (1985), Popeye Doyle (1986), A Killer Among Us (1990), Queen Sized (2008) and among other films  He directed "Heart in Hiding", written by his wife Audrey Davis Levin, for which she received an Emmy for Best Day Time Special in the 1970s 
Prior to becoming a director, Levin worked as an actor in several Broadway productions  He costarred with Susan Strasberg in "[The Diary of Ann Frank]" but had to leave the production when he was drafted into the Army  He trained at the Carnegie Mellon University  Eventually becoming a theatre director, he directed productions at the Long Wharf Theatre and the Pacific Resident Theatre Company  He also co-founded the off-off-Broadway Theatre [the Hardware Poets Playhouse] with his wife Audrey Davis Levin and was also an associate artist of The Interact Theatre Company 
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Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV 

Select credits
Waiting for Lucas (1973) (short)
Stone (1974) (editor only)
The Chain Reaction (1980)
Whose Baby? (1986) (mini-series)
Minnamurra (1989)
Bodysurfer (1989) (mini-series)
Ring of Scorpio (1990) (mini-series)
Crimebroker (1993)
Inferno (1998) (TV movie)
Miss Lettie and Me (2002) (TV movie)
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008) (documentary)
The Doctor Blake Mysteries (2013)
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Dana Blankstein
Dana Blankstein-Cohen (born March 3, 1981) is the executive director of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School  She was appointed by the board of directors  in November 2019   Previously she was the CEO of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television  She is a film director, and an Israeli culture entrepreneur 

Biography
Dana Blankstein was born in Switzerland in 1981 to theatre director Dedi Baron and Professor Alexander Blankstein  She moved to Israel in 1983 and grew up in Tel Aviv 
Blankstein graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, Jerusalem in 2008 with high honors  During her studies she worked as a personal assistant to directors Savi Gabizon on his film Nina's Tragedies and to Renen Schorr on his film The Loners   She also directed and shot 'the making of' film on Gavison's film Lost and Found  Her debut film Camping competed at the Berlin International Film Festival, 2007 

Film and academic career
After her studies, Dana founded and directed the film and television department at the Kfar Saba municipality  The department encouraged and promoted productions filmed in the city of Kfar Saba, as well as the established cultural projects, and educational community activities 
Blankstein directed the mini-series "Tel Aviviot" (2012)  From 2016-2019 was the director of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television 
In November 2019 Dana Blankstein Cohen was appointed the new director of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School where she also oversees the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab  In 2022, she spearheaded the launch of the new Series Lab and the film preparatory program for Arabic speakers in east Jerusalem 

Filmography
Tel Aviviot (mini-series; director, 2012)
Growing Pains (graduation film, Sam Spiegel; director and screenwriter, 2008)
Camping (debut film, Sam Spiegel; director and screenwriter, 2006)



ground_truth: University of Wisconsin

prompt_front: Answer the question based on the given passages. Only give me the answer and do not output any other words.

Question: Which film has the director who was born earlier, Dhuen Ki Lakeer or Bomma Borusa?

The following are given passages.
Context 3: Passage 1:
Dhuen Ki Lakeer
Dhuen Ki Lakeer is a 1974 Bollywood drama film directed by Kishore Sahu  The film stars Ramesh Arora and Parveen Babi 

Cast
Ramesh Arora
Parveen Babi
Urmila Bhatt
Preeti Ganguli

Songs
"Daur Wo Aa Gaya, Dil Ke Armaa Bike, Hosle Bik Gaye" - Mohammed Rafi
"Teree Jhil See Geharee Aankho Me" - Vani Jairam, Nitin Mukesh
"Ek Shama Jale Kahan, Parvano Ki Bhid Yaha" - Ajit Singh, Krishna]]
"Gauri Ke Maang Mein Sindoor, Kahi Dur Baje Shanai" - Ghanshyamji, Shamji
"Ik Abla Ik Maa Bik Gayi Daur Wo Aa Gaya ( Part II )" - Mohammed Rafi

External links
Dhuen Ki Lakeer at IMDb
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Edward Yates
Edward J  Yates (September 16, 1918 – June 2, 2006) was an American television director who was the director of the ABC television program American Bandstand from 1952 until 1969 

Biography
Yates became a still photographer after graduating from high school in 1936  After serving in World War II, he became employed by Philadelphia's WFIL-TV as a boom microphone operator  He was later promoted to cameraman (important as most programming was done live and local during the early years of television) and earned a bachelor's degree in communications in 1950 from the University of Pennsylvania 
In October 1952, Yates volunteered to direct Bandstand, a new concept featuring local teens dancing to the latest hits patterned after the "950 Club" on WPEN-AM  The show debuted with Bob Horn as host and took off after Dick Clark, already a radio veteran at age 26, took over in 1956 
It was broadcast live in its early years, even after it became part of the ABC network's weekday afternoon lineup in 1957 as American Bandstand  Yates pulled records, directed the cameras, queued the commercials and communicated with Clark via a private line telephone located on his podium 
In 1964, Clark moved the show to Los Angeles, taking Yates with him 
Yates retired from American Bandstand in 1969, and moved his family to the Philadelphia suburb of West Chester 
He died in 2006 at a nursing home where he had been for the last two months of his life 

External links
Edward Yates at IMDb
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Bomma Borusa
Bomma Borusa (transl  Heads or Tails?) is a 1971 Indian Telugu-language comedy film directed by K  Balachander 
It is a remake of the Tamil film Poova Thalaiya, directed by K  Balachander himself  The film stars Rama Krishna, Chandra Mohan, S  Varalakshmi, Chalam, Vennira Aadai Nirmala, Allu Ramalingaiah, Mukkamala, Raja Babu and Ramaprabha 
It was produced by Avichi Meiyappa Chettiar and distributed by AVM Productions  The film music was composed by R  Goverdhanam and lyrics were written by Kosaraju Raghavaiah 

Plot
It is an old classical family drama  Sundaram (Ramakrishna) is a rich businessman and he has an younger brother Sekhar (Chandra Mohan), a college going guy who loves his brother so much  Sundaram's mother-in-law Parvatham (S  Varalakshmi) who cares for his assets, shows her dominating character on Sekhar and Sundaram  She bets with Sekhar that she would separate him from his brother and puts some conditions that he should not tell his brother about the bet to prove his strength  Parvatham's second son-in-law (Chalam) identifies that his mother-in-law has moved to Sundaram's house  Soon the second son-in-law comes to the house and places a bet with Parvatham that she only should reveal that he is the son-in-law of her  Since then, both of them start proving their capacity to win the bet  The film revolves around who wins the bet and how it brings about a change in Parvathamma's beliefs 

Cast
Soundtrack
"Vesukunta Chempalu Vesukunta" (male)
"Vesukunta Chempalu Vesukunta" (female)
"Bomma Borusa Pandem Veyyi Needo Naado Paicheyi"
"Vallu Jhillan Tunnadi"
"Sarile Pove Vagaladi"Soundtrack for this Telugu film was composed by R  Goverdhanam and lyrics were written by Kosaraju Raghavaiah 
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Abhishek Saxena
Abhishek Saxena is an Indian Bollywood and Punjabi film director who directed the movie Phullu  The Phullu movie was released in theaters on 16 June 2017, in which film Sharib Hashmi is the lead role  Apart from these, he has also directed Patiala Dreamz, this is a Punjabi film  This film was screened in cinemas in 2014 

Life and background
Abhishek Saxena was born on 19 September 1988 in the capital of India, Delhi, whose father's name is Mukesh Kumar Saxena  Abhishek Saxena married Ambica Sharma Saxena on 18 December 2014  His mother's name is Gurpreet Kaur Saxena 
Saxena started his career with a Punjabi film Patiala Dreamz, after which he has also directed a Hindi film Phullu, which has appeared in Indian cinemas on 16 June 2017 

Career
Abhishek Saxena made his film debut in 2011 as an assistant director on Doordarshan with Ashok Gaikwad  He made his first directed film Patiala Dreamz, this is a Punjabi movie After this, he has also directed a Hindi film Phullu in 2017, which has been screened in cinemas on 16 June 2017  Saxena is now making his upcoming movie "India Gate" 
In 2018 Abhishek Saxena has come up with topic of body-shaming in his upcoming movie Saroj ka Rishta 
 Where Sanah Kapoor will play the role of Saroj and actors Randeep Rai and Gaurav Pandey will play the two men in Saroj's life Yeh Un Dinon ki Baat Hai lead Randeep Rai will make his Bollywood debut  Talking about the film, director Abhishek Saxena told Mumbai Mirror, "As a fat person, I have noticed that body-shaming doesn’t happen only with those who are on the heavier side, but also with thin people  The idea germinated from there "
Career as an Assistant DirectorApart from this, he has played the role of assistant director in many films and serials in the beginning of his career, in which he has a television serial in 2011, Doordarshan, as well as in 2011, he also assisted in a serial of Star Plus 
In addition to these serials, he played the role of assistant director in the movie "Girgit" which was made in Telugu language 

Filmography
As Director
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Ben Palmer
Ben Palmer (born 1976) is a British film and television director 
His television credits include the Channel 4 sketch show Bo' Selecta! (2002–2006), the second and third series of the E4 sitcom The Inbetweeners (2009–2010) and the Sky Atlantic comedy-drama Breeders (2020)  Palmer has also directed films such as the Inbetweeners spin-off, The Inbetweeners Movie (2011) and the romantic comedy Man Up (2015) 

Biography
Palmer was born and raised in Penny Bridge, Barrow-in-Furness  He attended Chetwynde School His first directing job was the Channel 4 sketch show Bo' Selecta!, which he co-developed with its main star, Leigh Francis  Palmer directed the second and third series of the E4 sitcom The Inbetweeners in 2009 and 2010, respectively 

Filmography
Bo' Selecta! (2002–06)
Comedy Lab (2004–2010)
Bo! in the USA (2006)
The Inbetweeners (2009–2010)
The Inbetweeners Movie (2011)
Comedy Showcase (2012)
Milton Jones's House of Rooms (2012)
Them from That Thing (2012)
Bad Sugar (2012)
Chickens (2013)
London Irish (2013)
Man Up (2015)
SunTrap (2015)
BBC Comedy Feeds (2016)
Nigel Farage Gets His Life Back (2016)
Back (2017)
Comedy Playhouse (2017)
Urban Myths (2017–19)
Click & Collect (2018)
Semi-Detached (2019)
Breeders (2020)
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Richard Young (cinematographer)
Richard Young (October 17, 1939 – December 15, 2010) was a cinematographer and film director who was born in Penfield, New York, United States 

Life and work
As a cinematographer, he filmed several dozen films for Eastman Kodak  He codirected the 1996 film I'm Still Here: The Truth About Schizophrenia with Robert Bilheimer  He was the director of the 1998 film Echoes from the Ancients  He codirected and coproduced the 1999 film A Warrior in Two Worlds: The Life of Ely Parker with Ann Spurling  He performed the cinematography for the 2003 documentary film A Closer Walk Young died on December 15, 2010  The film Not My Life, for which he had served as cinematographer and co-director, was subsequently dedicated to him  Bilheimer, who was the screenwriter, producer, and director of Not My Life, said that Young believed in the film far more than he himself did  There was a tribute to Young shown before its screening at the 360 | 365 George Eastman House Film Festival  A film reviewer at Post Magazine called Young "a legendary documentary cinematographer "
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K  Balachander
Kailasam Balachander (9 July 1930 – 23 December 2014) was an Indian filmmaker and playwright who worked mainly in the Tamil cinema  He was well known for his distinct film-making style, and the Indian film industry knew him as a master of unconventional themes and hard-hitting contemporary subject matter  Balachander's films are well known for their portrayal of women as bold personalities and central characters  Popularly referred to as Iyakkunar Sigaram (lit  "Director Paramount"), his films are usually centred on unusual or complicated interpersonal relationships and social themes  He started his film career in 1964 as a screenwriter and graduated to a director with Neerkumizhi (1965) 
In a career that spanned 50 years, he had contributed to nearly 100 feature films either as a screenwriter or director, thus becoming one of the most prolific filmmakers in the country  Known among his colleagues as a tough task master, he was credited with having nurtured numerous actors, notably Nagesh, Sujatha, Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth, Chiranjeevi, Jaya Prada, Sridevi, Jayasudha, Saritha, Renuka, Nassar, Prakash Raj, Ramesh Aravind and Vivek 
In his film career, Balachander had won nine National Film Awards and 13 Filmfare Awards  He was honored with the Padma Shri (1987), India's fourth highest civilian award, and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in cinema 
He also made films under his production house, Kavithalaya Productions  Apart from Tamil, he made films in other languages such as Telugu, Kannada and Hindi  Towards the tail end of his career, he directed a few TV serials and made a few film appearances as well 

Early life and background
K  Balachander was born in Tamil Brahmin family in 1930  at Nannilam in the Tanjore district (now Tiruvarur district), India  Balachander stated that, "From my eighth year I've been seeing cinema" and recalls that his earliest interest towards cinema grew after watching films of M  K  Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, then the Superstar of Tamil cinema  At the age of twelve he was drawn to theatre and drama, which eventually helped him develop an interest in acting, writing and directing amateur plays  His obsession towards theatre continued even while doing his graduation (in Zoology) at the Annamalai University, as he regularly took part in stage plays  After completing his graduation in 1949, he started his career as a school teacher in Muthupet, Tiruvarur district  In 1950, he moved to Madras (now Chennai) and joined the Accountant General's office as an apprentice clerk, and during this time he joined "United Amateur Artistes", an amateur drama company  Soon he formed his own troupe and it was during this time he came to prominence as an amateur playwright with Major Chandrakanth, written in English  As the scope of English was highly limited in Madras, he re-wrote the play in Tamil, which ultimately became a "sensation" among the people  Balachander's acting troupe consisted of people from the Tamil film industry such as Major Sundarrajan, Nagesh, Srikanth and Sowcar Janaki  Sunderrajan appeared in over 900 films, Nagesh in over 1,000, Sreekanth in more than 200 films, and Sowkar Janaki appeared in more than 350 films  Other plays written by Balachander include Server Sundaram (Waiter Sundaram), Neerkumizhi (Water Bubble), Mezhuguvarthi (Candle), Naanal (Tall Grass) and Navagraham (Nine Planets)  All these produced and directed by him, were received well by the critics 

Career
Entry into films: 1960s
Balachander while working in the Accountant General's office, was offered to write the dialogues for the film Dheiva Thaai (1964 ) by its lead actor M  G  Ramachandran  Balachander was initially reluctant, as he was more theatre-oriented, but on the insistence of his friends he decided to work on the film  By this time he was promoted as a superintendent in his office  Avichi Meiyappa Chettiar acquired the rights of his play Server Sundaram, and decided to make a film based on it  The film dealt with the story of a waiting staff at a restaurant had Nagesh playing the lead  The film was directed by the renowned duo directors, Krishnan–Panju  It won a lot of accolades including the Certificate of Merit for the third Best Feature Film in Tamil and Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Film  During this time another play written and directed by him - Major Chandrakanth was adapted into a film in Hindi as Oonche Log  The film won a National Film Award  Balachander then made his directional debut through Neerkumizhi (1965) which in turn was based on his own play  The film's cast consisted of actors who were a part of Balachander's regular troupe  His following efforts included Naanal, Major Chandrakanth and Ethir Neechal, all based on his own plays  Major Chandrakanth was already filmed in Hindi as Oonche Log the previous year  The Tamil version Major Chandrakanth (1966 film) had Jayalalithaa playing the lead heroine role  In 1967 he made Bama Vijayam, a full-length comedy family drama film  Featuring an ensemble cast, the film was highly successful and remade in Telugu by Balachander himself  The success of both the versions prompted a Hindi remake titled Teen Bahuraniyan, produced by Gemini pictures  In 1969, Balachander made Iru Kodugal, a family drama starring Gemini Ganesan, won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil 

1970s
During the 1970s, Balachander turned indie, making realist movies revolving around family and social issues  In 1971 he made four films In 1973, he made Arangetram, which dealt with poverty and prostitution  The film centred on the eldest daughter of a conservative Brahmin household who becomes a prostitute to settle her siblings and support her family  It was ahead of its time in Tamil cinema mainly because of the controversial theme  The film also had Kamal Haasan playing his first major role as an adult actor  The actor would go on to act in 35 films under Balachander  He made his directorial debut in Hindi films with the film Aaina starring Mumtaz and Rajesh Khanna in 1977, which was remake of Arangetram The same year, he made Sollathaan Ninaikkiren, based on a novel by Manian  The following year he made Naan Avanillai  He made the film on the insistence of Gemini Ganesan, who also produced and enacted the lead role  It is based on the Marathi play To Mee Navhech, revolved around a man who deceives and marries five women performing nine roles  The film met with commercial failure  However, Gemini Ganesan was adjudged the Best Tamil Actor at the following year's Filmfare Awards ceremony  Following that, Balachander's made Aval Oru Thodar Kathai (1974), his second female-centric film after Arangetram that dealt with the story of a working woman who hails from a middle-class family  Inspired by the 1960 Bengali film Meghe Dhaka Tara, it explored the emotions of a young woman who happens to be the sole earner for her family  He decided to cast an actress who worked as a child actress till then, as his film heroine with the film Mondru Moodichu and gave break to Sridevi  The film Aboorva Raagangal was an original story about an inter-generational romance involving two families  It marked the acting debut of Rajinikanth, who would go on to establish himself as a leading actor  It won critical acclaim in spite of its controversial theme; it won three National Film Awards including the award for the "Best Feature Film in Tamil" During this period he made films mostly with Kamal Haasan as the lead actor  In 1976, he made three films: Manmadha Leelai, Anthuleni Katha and Moondru Mudichu  Manmadha Leelai explores the life of a womaniser, played by Kamal Haasan, who gets himself involved in affairs with women  Often considered ahead of its time, it achieved cult status and is considered a "trendsetter" in Tamil cinema  Anthuleni Katha, a Telugu remake of Aval Oru Thodar Kathai had Jaya Prada in her first starring role  received equal acclaim in Andhra Pradesh as in the neighbouring state of Tamil Nadu  Avargal (1977) follows the life of a divorcée as she traverses relationships in reverse, from divorce, to marriage, to falling in love  Varumayin Niram Sigappu (1980) was a drama that charts the travails and conflict of being unemployed in a bombastic and harsh city  47 Natkal (1981) traces the adversities of a newlywed Indian woman living with an scurrilous, expatriate husband in a Parisian suburb  The film was a launchpad for its lead actor Chiranjeevi 

Bollywood success and Tamil film career 1981-99
Balachander re-entered the Hindi film industry after Aaina through Ek Duuje Ke Liye in 1981  He gave Rati Agnihotri her debut Hindi film with Ek Duje Ke Liye  The project was a remake of his own Telugu film Maro Charitra had Kamal Haasan repeating his role as a lead actor  The film marked the Bollywood debut of various artists including Kamal Haasan, Madhavi and S  P  Balasubrahmanyam  Like the original, Ek Duuje Ke Liye emerged as a major box-office success and earned critical acclaim  Balachander received the Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay, apart from two other nominations – for Best Director and Best Story  The song "Tere Meere Beach Mein" became so popular, eventually winning a Filmfare Award for Anand Bakshi and a National Film Award for Balasubrahmanyam He made Sindhu Bhairavi (1985), which is about the intellectual collision and subsequent romance between a lofty Carnatic musician and his ardent critic  He has worked with a variety of music directors like V Kumar, M S Viswanathan, Ilaiyaraja, Maragathamani, V  S  Narasimhan and A R Rahman  The actors who were regular in his films in the period 1963 to 1990 were Gemini Ganeshan, Sowcar Janaki, Nagesh, Jayanthi, Sujatha, Rajnikanth and Kamal Haasan 

Later years
In 1998, he planned a film titled Thillana Thillana featuring Prashanth, Karthik, Meena and Simran , but the venture failed to develop  His later films include Parthale Paravasam (2001) and Poi (2006) 

Television career
The period starting from the late 1980s till the late 1990s saw Balachander venturing into Television and making a number of Television series including Kai Alavu Manasu, Rail Sneham, Ramany vs Ramany(a k a  Ramani vs Ramani), Oru Koodai Paasam, Kadhal Pagadai, Premi, Jannal, Kasalavu Nesam, and Anni  Like his earlier films, most of his serials focussed on women, and portrayed them as strong personalities  Kasalvu Nesam was one of his comedy hits, starring Venu Aravind  In 2003, he made Sahana, that touted to be the sequel of his 1985 film Sindhu Bairavi  On venturing into Television, he noted "This medium helps to reach out to the public  That's why I am into making serials"  In 2009, Balachander returned to theatre after a 40-year hiatus through the play Pournami, which had Renuka playing the lead role 

Personal life
In 1956, Balachander married Rajam while he was working at the Accountant General's Office  The couple had two sons named Kailasam and Prasanna and a daughter Pushpa Kandaswamy, who is the chairwoman of their production house Kavithalaya Productions  Kailasam was an entrepreneur while Prasanna, a Chartered Accountant, is the managing director and CEO of a leading investment bank in India  Balachander's elder son, Bala Kailasam, died on 15 August 2014 after contracting pneumonia, at the age of 54  He was the head of the television production company Minbinbangal, and delivered memorable series in Tamil includes, Balachandarin Chinnathirai, Kaialavu Manasu, Rail Sneham, and Marma Desam 

Death
Following a neurosurgery in November 2014, Balachander was admitted to Kauvery Hospital in Chennai on 15 December  Reports suggested that he was suffering from fever and from a urinary tract infection, but was recovering well  However, on 23 December 2014 he died due to complications from the urinary infection and other age-related ailments   He was cremated with full state honours the next day 

Style, critique and public perception
Balachander is revered as one of the best directors India has ever produced  His ideas were original and his subjects were complex ideas expressed via art  He is also known for introducing new faces to the film industry  He has introduced over 100 actors in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada languages  Balachander had long associations with some senior artists in the South Indian film industry like Gemini Ganesan, Sowcar Janaki, Nagesh and Muthuraman  Even though he was not the one to discover them, he played a prominent role in shaping their careers 
Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth, two leading film actors in Tamil cinema, are often referred to as products of Balachander who has paired with each of them or worked with them as a trio in several films during the 1970s  Rajinikanth was chosen by Balachander to play a key supporting character in Apoorva Raagangal (1975) after noting that "there was something special about him"  Sridevi, Srividhya, Jayapradha, Jayasudha, Jayachithra, Sujatha, Saritha were notable heroines that were introduced by Balachander  Nassar, Delhi Ganesh, Charlie, Madan Bob were some of the notable supporting actors introduced by him  After working in a few Kannada films, Prakash Raj was relaunched as an actor in Tamil cinema through his debut Duet (1995) and had also performed in some of Balachander's soap opera productions in the 1990s  Through Manathil Uruthi Vendum, Balachander launched Vivek as an actor, who initially worked with him as his assistant writer, and later went on to become a leading comedy actor  He also launched A R  Rahman in the film Roja which was his production 
When the old era was dominated by commercial action films, Balachander directed socially themed films with women as protagonists usually centred on unusual or complicated interpersonal relationships and social themes  He portrayed women as headstrong, intelligent and independent people  Balachander revealed that many of his messages from his films, he has drawn inspiration from poet Subramaniya Bharathi whom he had admired since his childhood  Screenwriter Gopu (of Gopu-Babu) said that he used to begin his script from the ending and then construct the plot 

Filmography
Awards and nomination
Documentary
A documentary is getting ready about him  Ravisubramaniyan is selected by Kavidalaya for making documentary, to be released on 9 July 2020, the 90th birthday of the veteran Indian filmmaker 

Notes
Bibliography
External links
K  Balachander at IMDb
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Hassan Zee
Hassan "Doctor" Zee is a Pakistani-American film director who was born in Chakwal, Pakistan 

Early life
Doctor Zee grew up in Chakwal, a small village in Punjab, Pakistan  as one of seven brothers and sisters  His father was in the military and this fact required the family to move often to different cities  As a child Zee was forbidden from watching cinema because his father believed movies were a bad influence on children 
At age 13, Doctor Zee got his start in the world of entertainment at Radio Pakistan where he wrote and produced radio dramas and musical programs   It was then that he realized his passion for storytelling At the age of 26, Doctor Zee earned his medical doctorate degree and did his residency in a burn unit at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences  He cared for women who were victims of  "Bride Burning," the archaic practice used as a form of punishment against women who fail to provide sufficient dowry to their in-laws after marriage or fail to provide offspring   He also witnessed how his country’s transgender and intersex people, called “hijras”, were banned from having jobs and forced to beg to survive  These experiences inspired Doctor Zee to tackle the issues of women’s empowerment and gender inequality in his films In 1999, he came to San Francisco to pursue his dream of filmmaking and made San Francisco his home

Education
He received his early education from Jinnah Public School, Chakwal  He got his medical doctor degree at Rawalpindi Medical College, Pakistan 

Film career
Doctor Zee's first film titled Night of Henna was released in 2005  The theme of the film dealt with "the conflict between Old World immigrant customs and modern Western ways   " Night of Henna focused on the problems of Pakistani expatriates who found it hard to adjust in American culture  Many often landed themselves in trouble when it came to marrying off their children 
His second film Bicycle Bride came out in 2010, which was about "the clash between the bonds of family and the weight of tradition " His third film House of Temptation that came out in 2014 was about a family which struggles against the temptations of the Devil  His fourth film “Good Morning Pakistan”, concerned a young American’s journey back to Pakistan where he confronts the contradictory nature of a beautiful and ancient culture that's marred by economic, educational and gender inequality His upcoming fifth film, "Ghost in San Francisco" is a supernatural thriller starring Felissa Rose, Dave Sheridan, and Kyle Lowder where a soldier comes home from Afghanistan to discover that his wife is having an affair with his best friend  While battling with his inner ghosts and demons, he meets a mysterious woman in San Francisco who promises him a ritual for his cure 
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Rumbi Katedza
Rumbi Katedza is a Zimbabwean Film Producer and Director who was born on 17 January 1974 

Early life and education
She did her Primary and Secondary Education in Harare, Zimbabwe  Katedza graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from McGill University, Canada in 1995  In 2008 Katedza received the Chevening Scholarship that enabled her to further her studies in film  She also holds a MA in Filmmaking from Goldsmiths College, London University 

Work and filmography
Katedza has experience in Film and TV Production, Directing, Writing as well as Producing and presenting Radio shows  From 1994 to 2000, She produced and presented radio shows on Women's issues, Arts and Culture, Hip Hop and Acid Jazz for the CKUT (Montreal) and ZBC Radio 3 (Zimbabwe)  From 2004 - 2006, she served as the Festival Director of the Zimbabwe International Film Festival  Whilst there, she produced the Postcards from Zimbabwe Series  In 2008, Katedza founded Mai Jai Films and has produced numerous films and television productions under the banner namely

Tariro (2008);
Big House, Small House (2009);
The Axe and the Tree (2011);
The Team (2011)
Playing Warriors (2012)Her early works include:

Danai (2002);
Postcards from Zimbabwe (2006);
Trapped (2006 – Rumbi Katedza, Marcus Korhonen);
Asylum (2007);
Insecurity Guard (2007)Rumbi Katedza is a part-time lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe, in the department of Theatre Arts  She is a judge and monitor at the National Arts Merit Awards, responsible for monitoring new film and TV productions throughout the year on behalf of the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe  She has also lobbied Zimbabwean government to actively support the film industry 
Passage 10:
Kishore Sahu
Kishore Sahu (22 November 1915 – 22 August 1980) was an Indian actor, film director, screenwriter, and producer  He appeared in 22 films between 1937 and 1980, and he directed 20 films between 1942 and 1974 
His directorial venture Kuwara Baap was one of the winners for the BFJA - Best Indian Films Award for best film for 1943  His film Raja has been called "a milestone of art and skill in motion pictures"  His film Veer Kunal was a huge box office success  He directed Dilip Kumar with Kamini Kaushal in Nadiya Ke Paar, which became the sixth highest grossing Indian film of 1948  His 1954 film Mayurpankh was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Grand Prize of the Festival 
Sawan Aya Re did well commercially, with Baburao Patel of Filmindia remarking in the 9 May 1949 edition that Sahu's estimate had risen due to the "original treatment" he gave to an "otherwise ordinary" story  He was also known for the Meena Kumari starrer, Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai (1960) 
He had four children, Vimal Sahu, Naina Sahu, Mamta Sahu, and Rohit Sahu  His wife Preeti was a Kumaoni Brahmin Before marrying Preeti, he was briefly married to his Punar Milan (1940) co-star Snehprabha Pradhan before the relationship ended in 1943 after a court battle 

Early life
Sahu was born in present-day Rajnandgaon district in India  His father was the Prime Minister under the Raja of Rajnandgaon  He joined the University of Nagpur and took part in the "freedom struggle",  completing his graduation in 1937  An interest in writing short stories brought him in contact with cinema, where he initially started as an actor 

Filmography
Director
Kunwara Baap (1942)
Raja (1943)
Shararat (1944)
Veer Kunal (1945)
Sindoor (1947)
Sajan (1947)
Nadiya Ke Par (1948)
Sawan Aya Re (1949)
Kali Ghata (1951)
Mayurpankh (1954)
Hamlet (1954)
Kismet Ka Khel (1956)
Bare Sarkar (1957)
Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai (1960)
Grahasti (1963)
Ghar Basake Dekho (1963)
Poonam Ki Raat (1965)
Hare Kanch Ki Chooriyan (1967)
Pushpanjali (1970)
Dhuen Ki Lakeer (1974)

Writer
Producer
Bahurani (1940)
Sawan Aya Re (1949)
Hamara Ghar (1950)
Kali Ghata (1951)
Mayurpankh (1954)
Poonam Ki Raat (1965)
Hare Kanch Ki Chooriyan (1967)
Pushpanjali (1970)



ground_truth: Dhuen Ki Lakeer