Question: Tressie Souders and Padmarajan, have which occupation in common?

full_context: Document 1: Pattukkottai Prabakar: Pattukkottai Prabakar is an Indian writer of Tamil crime and detective fiction. He has also worked as a screenwriter in the Tamil film industry, and also for "Paramapadham", the first Tamil-language "mega-serial" to be shown on Doordarshan. Pattukkottai Prabakar was born to Shri. V. Radhakrishnan and Smt.R.Chandra on July 30, 1958. He completed his masters in economics in the renowned St.Joseph's college, Trichy. He pursued his career as an eminent writer. His debut as an author was in 1977, when his work was published in Ananda Vikatan. So far he has penned 200+ short stories, 300+ novels and 70+ serials. His versatility has taken his works to other languages too. His efficiency has been proved in publishing too, when he ran ungal junior and ullasa oonjal magazines for ten years. He has contributed towards the story, screenplay and dialogues for up to twenty five Tamil films. Television serials are a piece of cake for him, where he worked in projects like jeypathu nijam, paramapatham, gopuram, varam,etc.. His works like Maram and Kanavugal ilavasam are part of literature syllabus in private colleges and two Ph.D scholars have acquired their doctorate by researching his writings.
Document 2: Karamana Janardanan Nair: Karamana Janardanan Nair (25 July 1936 – 24 April 2000) was one of the most famous Malayalam film actors during the 1980s and 1990s. He won wide acclaim especially for the role of the protagonist in Adoor Gopalakrishnan's Elippathayam. He played the lead role in the K. G. George directed film "Mattoral", supported by Mammootty, which was released in 1988. His last role was as Fr. Paulose in the movie FIR.
Document 3: S. L. Puram Sadanandan: S. L. Puram Sadanandan (1928–2005) was a famous playwright and film scriptwriter of Kerala, India. He was a trailblazer of the theatre movement in Kerala. He was born on April 15, 1928, in S.L.Puram in Alappuzha district to P.Narayanan and Karthyayani. He started writing plays while studying in school and associated himself with the trade union activities in his village. He became a strong sympathizer of the Indian Communist Party witnessing the hardships of the poor workers around him and had close contacts with Communist leaders like R.Sugathan. He took part in the Punnapra-Vayalar uprising and was arrested and imprisoned and could not pursue his formal studies further . However, he withdrew himself from active politics following the split in the Communist party. He was founder of "Kalpana Theatres" and "Suryasoma Theatres" at S.L. Puram. He has written more than 60 plays. His first drama, "Kudiyirakku", was staged when he was only 16 years old. He entered the filmworld by writing the dialogues for the film Sreekovil in 1962. He had written script for famous Malayalam film of the 1960s, "Chemmeen". He wrote scripts for more than 135 films and many of them won state and national awards. In 1965 he got the national award for the best screen play for the film "Agniputhri". He died on September 16, 2005. He was survived by his wife Omana Sadanandan and two sons, Jayasurya (who directed the films "Speed Track" and "Angel John") and Jayasoma.
Document 4: Dorothy Arzner: Dorothy Emma Arzner (January 3, 1897 – October 1, 1979) was an American film director whose career in feature films spanned from the silent era of the late 1920s into the early 1940s. In fact, Dorothy Arzner was the only female director working in the 1930s in the United States. She was one of the very few women who established a name for herself as a director in the American film industry during this time.
Document 5: Louise Lester: Louise Lester (August 8, 1867 – November 18, 1952) was an American silent film actress. She was the first female star of Western films.
Document 6: Tressie Souders: Tressie Souders (February 7, 1897 – January 17, 1995) was the first known African American female to direct a feature film, 1922's "A Woman's Error".
Document 7: Chelangatt Gopalakrishnan: Chelangatt Gopalakrishnan (June 6, 1932 - June 4, 2010) was born in Cherthala Alappuzha dist. in Kerala to Sri Nediyedathu Kesava Pillai and Thrikkeparambil Ammukkutti Amma. After graduation, he started his career as a journalist in a regional newspaper; Malayali. Later he worked for some other newspapers including Mathrubhumi. During this time, he established his own name in the film journalism. Several forgotten personalities including J.C. Daniel, the father of Malayalam Cinema, have been disclosed before readers and public by him. During this time he had released several books. Most of them are about cinema and its history. The historical narrations of cinema have been started from the birth of world cinema till the contemporary Malayalam films. The renowned Malayalam Film Maker Adoor Gopalakrishnan in his book Cinemayude Lokam, which won many awards including the award from Government of India says ; "The history of Malayalam Cinema is not started with stars born with fortunes, from sky. But, it is the tearful story of some, who experimented with their lives and assets. Most of the experiments had been tragedies. We got that history from the articles written by Chelangatt Gopalakrishnan. S. Guptan Nair called Chelangatt Gopalakrishnan, the Chief Architect of Malayalam Film Literature and Journalism. He was in the Kerala State Film Awards Jury for several years. Many books related with novel, biographies, history and technical aspects of film making have been written by him. He had run a film studio named 'Ajanta Studio' at Aluva. Many classical films including 'Olavum Theeravum' written by M.T. Vasudevan Nair have been filimized at this studio. He had written more than 20 books about cinema alone. Vincent Muthal Vincent Vare, Mukhathodu Mukham, The History of World Cinema, The History of Indian Cinema, The History of Malayalam Cinema, The History of Film Persons in Kerala, The History of Malayalam Journalism etc., are few among them. He was a regular writer about many of the prominent periodicals in Malayalam language.
Document 8: Padmarajan: Padmarajan (23 May 1945 – 24 January 1991) (also known as Padmarajan Pillai) was an Indian author, screenwriter, and film director who was known for his landmark works in Malayalam literature and Malayalam cinema. Padmarajan was the founder of a new school of film making in Malayalam, along with Bharathan, in the 1980s, which created films that were widely received while also being critically acclaimed.
Document 9: Jessie Redmon Fauset: Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an African American editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Fauset’s literary work helped sculpt African American literature in the 1920s as she focused on portraying a true image of African American life and history. Her black fictional characters were working professionals which was an inconceivable concept to American society during this time Her story lines related to themes of racial discrimination, “passing,” and feminism. From 1919-1926, Fauset’s position as literary editor of "The Crisis," a NAACP magazine, allowed her to contribute to the Harlem Renaissance by promoting literary work that related to the social movements of this era. Through her work as a literary editor and reviewer, she discouraged black writers from lessening the racial qualities of the characters in their work, and encouraged them to write honestly and openly about the African American race. She wanted a realistic and positive representation of the African American community in literature that had never before been as prominently displayed. Before and after working on "The Crisis," she worked for decades as a French teacher in public schools in Washington, DC and New York City. She published four novels during the 1920s and 1930s, exploring the lives of the black middle-class. She also was the editor and co-author of the African-American children's magazine "The Brownies' Book." She is known for discovering and mentoring other African American writers such as Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay.
Document 10: Adoor Gopalakrishnan: Adoor Gopalakrishnan is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer. Adoor Gopalakrishnan had a major role in revolutioning Malayalam cinema during the 1970s and is regarded as one of the most notable filmmakers of India. Adoor's first film "Swayamvaram" (1972, script by K.P Kumaran the director of one of the best Indian film " Athidhi ".) pioneered the new wave cinema movement in Kerala along with " Olavum Theeravum " (1970) and " Athidhi "(1974). Most of his films go to festivals around the world, and are released in Kerala. All the eleven films he directed, from "Swayamvaram" to "Oru Pennum Randaanum" (2008), were screened at several international film festivals and won him several national and international awards. He won National Film Awards 16 times, Kerala State Film Awards 17 times and also won several international film awards. He won the prestigious British Film Institute Award for "Elippathayam" (1981). Adoor received the Padma Shri in 1984 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2006. The Nation honoured Adoor for his valuable contributions to Indian cinema by awarding him the highest cinema award of India, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2004.
Document 11: Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai: Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai (1900–1979) was a Malayalam dramatist, poet, screen play writer and actor. He was born on 1900 in Muthukulam, a small village in Alappuzha District, Kerala, India. Known as the "Akshara Guru" of Malayalam talkie films, he wrote the screenplay and dialogues of "Balan", the first Malayalam talkie and "Jeevithanauka", the first box office hit in the Malayalam film industry. He is also the author of about 55 dramas and dozens of film stories and screenplays. In 1968, he acted in "Viruthan Shanku", the first full-length comedy in Malayalam cinema directed by P. Venu. He acted in around 150 Malayalam films and wrote "Tataka Parinayam" Kathakali. An award named "Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai Puraskaram" has been instituted by "Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai Samraka Samithi" in honour of him.
Document 12: Dee Rees: Dee Rees is an American screenwriter and director best known for her feature films "Pariah", "Bessie" and "Mudbound".
Document 13: The Revival: Women and the Word: The Revival Women and the Word was a documentary released in 2016, the director of this film is Sekiya Dorsett, a queer filmmaker who works to give voice to issues of equality. This documentary chronicles a US tour group of Black lesbian poets and musicians who are traveling performing making history as queer women of color. Their journey is to bring together their community and include interviews from leading black feminist and queer thinkers which includes, Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Nikki Finney, and Alexis Deveaux. This documentary tackles themes such as gender, race, and sexuality. This film works to represent community and provide a special insight to the experience of queer women of color performers. Additionally, this film works to empower and raise the voices of the marginalized.
Document 14: Alice Guy-Blaché: Alice Guy-Blaché (July 1, 1873 – March 24, 1968) was the first person to be a film director and writer of narrative fiction films. She experimented with Gaumont's Chronophone sound syncing system, color tinting, interracial casting, and special effects.
Document 15: Mani Ratnam: Gopala Ratnam Subramaniam (born 2 June 1956), commonly known by his screen name Mani Ratnam, is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. Cited by the media as one of India's influential filmmakers, Mani Ratnam is widely credited with revolutionising the Tamil film industry and altering the profile of Indian cinema. Although working in the mainstream medium, his films are noted for their realism, technical finesse, and craft. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, acknowledging his contributions to film in 2002.
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