Pirjo Honkasalo
Pirjo Irene Honkasalo (born 22 February 1947) is a Finnish film director who has also worked as a cinematographer, film editor, producer, screenwriter and actress.
In 1980 she co-directed "Flame Top" with Pekka Lehto, with whom she worked earlier and later as well.
The film was chosen for the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.
In the 1990s she focused on feature documentaries such as "The Trilogy of the Sacred and the SatanicMysterionTanjuska and the 7 Devils" and "Atman").
Honkasalo returned to fiction with "Fire-Eater" (1998) and "Concrete Night" (2013), both of which were written by Pirkko Saisio. "
Concrete Night" won six Jussi Awards in 2014, among them the Jussi for the Best Direction and the Jussi for the Best Film.
Its world premiere was at the Toronto International Film Festival in Masters series.
Pirjo Honkasalo worked as provincial artist laureate in Central Finland 1974–1975.
At that time she drove around the area with one-armed scholar who made research of traditional handcrafts.
Honkasalo photographed all the interviewees voluntarily.
On that journey she met the main characters of her documentary "Their Age".
She is the first honorary member of Women in Film & Television Finland.
The organisation says that "Honkasalo has  made touching films of universal topics" and also spoken out about the gender inequality in film industry.
Pirjo Honkasalo and her partner Pirkko Saisio live in Kruununhaka, Helsinki, but they also have apartments in Tavastia, Turku and Madeira.
Both of them enjoy travelling and they together have written a travel book "Exit" (1987).
They've raised Saisio's daughter, actress Elsa Saisio, and are one of the best-known lesbian couples in Finland.
Mary Cecelia Allen
Mary Allen is a writer living in Iowa City, Iowa.
Allen is an MFA graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and published her memoir" The Rooms of Heaven" in 1999.
She received an NEA grant in 2002.
Harriet Persis Hurlbut
Harriet Persis Hurlbut( February 26, 1862 –) was an American artist.
Like her father, she was fond of historical and genealogical matters.
One of her paintings hangs in the rooms of the Chicago Historical Society, being a portrait of the early explorer, Samuel de Champlain.
Jesse E. Hobson
Jesse Edward Hobson( May 2, 1911 – November 5, 1970) was the director of SRI International from 1947 to 1955.
Prior to SRI, he was the director of the Armour Research Foundation.
Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
Brian Patrick Kennedy( born 5 November 1961) is an Irish- born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.
He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Hadijat Gatayeva
Hadijat Gatayeva( also transliterated Hadizhat Gataeva or Khadijad Gataeva) is a Chechen Muslim humanitarian activist who, together with her husband Malik, took care of some of the Grozny's war orphans.
She is usually referred to just as Hadijat.
Gatayeva and her children were one of the subject of the 2005 documentary film" The 3 Rooms of Melancholia" by Pirjo Honkasalo, who kept in contact with her ever since.
Hadijat is also the titular" angel" in the 2008 book by Åsne Seierstad.
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.
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (Finnish: Melancholian 3 huonetta) is a 2004 Finnish documentary film written, directed and co-produced by Pirjo Honkasalo.
The film documents the devastation and ruin brought on by the Second Chechen War, more specifically the toll that the war had taken on the children of Chechnya and Russia.
The film received positive reviews from critics and won numerous awards.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.

Question: Where was the director of film The 3 Rooms Of Melancholia born?
Answer: Helsinki