Question: Which director is of Danish descent, Mikael Salomon or Lewis Seiler?
Context: Nordlie, also spelled Nordli is a surname of Norwegian origin.  In Norwegian and Danish the name means "northern slope" or "northern hill".  The surname consists of two components: "nord" meaning north, and "lie" (Danish)/ "li" (Norwegian) meaning slope or hill.  While not as common in Denmark or among people of Danish descent, the Danish spelling is used because Danish was long the written language for Norwegian.  The surname is a homophone with the word "nordlig" which means "northern". Lewis Seiler (September 30, 1890 – January 8, 1964) was an American film director.  He directed 88 films between 1923 and 1958.  He was born in New York, New York and died in Hollywood, California. Mikael Salomon (born 24 February 1955) is a Danish-born cinematographer, director and producer of film and television.  After a long cinematography career in Danish cinema, he transitioned to the Hollywood film industry in the late 1980s and has remained highly prolific there, earning two Academy Award nominations.  He is also an acclaimed and prolific television director whose credits include dozens of series, films and miniseries including "Band of Brothers, Salem's Lot, Rome," and "The Andromeda Strain", for which has received numerous awards and nominations including a Primetime Emmy Award and Directors Guild of America Award. A Glimpse of Hell is a drama film originally made for TV and was initially shown on the FX TV network.  It was released in the United States on March 18, 2001.  It was filmed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and stars James Caan, Robert Sean Leonard, and Daniel Roebuck.  It was directed by Mikael Salomon.  The film is based on the book "A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up" by Charles C. Thompson II about the 1989 turret explosion incident on the USS "Iowa" and its aftermath. Sole Survivor also known as Dean Koontz's Sole Survivor is a Canadian science fiction Thriller film/mini-series adaptation of Dean Koontz's novel of the same name, made and released in 2000 and directed by Mikael Salomon. Hard Rain is a 1998 action-thriller disaster film produced by Mark Gordon, written by Graham Yost, and directed by former cinematographer-turned director Mikael Salomon.  It stars Christian Slater, Morgan Freeman, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver, and Ed Asner.  It is an international co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, and Japan.  The plot centers around a heist and man-made treachery amidst a natural disaster in a small Indiana town. Freezer is a 2014 American thriller film, directed by TV director Mikael Salomon.  The film stars Dylan McDermott, Yuliya Snigir and Peter Facinelli. Aftershock: Earthquake in New York is a 1999 miniseries that was broadcast in the United States on CBS in two parts, with the first part aired on November 14 and the second on November 16.  It was released to VHS in 2000, and on DVD in 2001.  It is based on a book written by Chuck Scarborough.  Starring Charles S. Dutton, Sharon Lawrence, Tom Skerritt, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jennifer Garner, Rachel Ticotin and Frederick Weller.  under the direction of Mikael Salomon, the miniseries follows five groups of people in the aftermath of a large earthquake hitting New York City. Natalee Holloway is a 2009 American television film directed by Mikael Salomon based on Beth Holloway's book about the 2005 disappearance of her daughter Natalee Holloway.  The film stars Amy Gumenick as Natalee Holloway, Tracy Pollan as Beth Holloway-Twitty and Jacques Strydom as Joran van der Sloot.  When it aired on the Lifetime Movie Network on April 19, 2009, the film scored the highest television ratings at that time in the network's history. The Lost Future is a 2010 South African-German post-apocalyptic film from Syfy, directed by Mikael Salomon and written by Jonas Bauer.  The film stars Sean Bean, Corey Sevier and Sam Claflin.  It was released on DVD on 27 September 2011.
Answer: Mikael Salomon