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.
Mahmoud Sabbagh
Mahmoud Sabbagh, or Mah Sabbagh (
Arabic:
مَحْمُود صباغ; born March 1983) is a Saudi film director, producer, and screenwriter.
Sabbagh has been a major pioneer of independent cinema in Saudi Arabia since 2013.
His debut feature, titled "Barakah Meets Barakah", premiered at Berlin Film Festival in 2016; becoming the first feature film from Saudi Arabia to screen in the festival.
His debut film was also selected as the entry of Saudi Arabia for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards.
In 2015, Sabbagh founded Elhoush Productions, the first independent feature film production company, based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Sabbagh opened the first official art house cinema in Jeddah in 2019.
Elhoush Cinema opened with the screening of Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking epic 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Sabbagh was named on the jury for the Best First Feature Award at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival.
Sabbagh is also known locally by the documentary "The Story of Hamza Shehata" (2013).
Sabbagh also created/directed the provocative TV/web drama series "Cash" (2014); a 10-episodes drama series shot in cinema style.
Sabbagh holds a master's degree of science from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where he studied storytelling filmmaking.
In October 2017, it was announced that Sabbagh is working on his second feature, titled: "
Amra and The Second Marriage".
The film is shot entirely in Saudi Arabia and premiered in London BFI festival in 2018.
In March 2019, Sabbagh was announced the Festival Director of Saudi Arabia's first international film festival, The Red Sea Film Festival.
Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to?
Now Where Did the 7th Company Get To? 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.
Dana Blankstein
Dana Blankstein- Cohen( born March 3, 1981) is the director of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.
She is a film director, and an Israeli culture entrepreneur.
The Seventh Company Outdoors
The Seventh Company Outdoors is a 1977 French comedy film directed by Robert Lamoureux.
It is a sequel to Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to ?.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
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.
Jason Moore (director)
Jason Moore( born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television.
Barakah Meets Barakah
Barakah Meets Barakah  is a 2016 Saudi Arabian drama-comedy film directed and written by Mahmoud Sabbagh, a remarkably candid Saudi Arabian love story which uses humor as a counterweight to the difficulties the couple face.
Principal photography of Barakah Meets Barakah began on 25 September 2015 and ended on 22 October, and was shot entirely in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The film was selected as the Saudi Arabian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards (the second time the country made a submission for the Oscars).
The film premiered at the Forum section of the 66th Berlin International Film Festival making it the first Saudi feature film to premiere at the festival.
It won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Berlinale.
It was selected to represent the Berlinale during the Berlinale Spotlight program at the 14th Morelia International Film Festival in Mexico in October 2016.
The film premiered in North America at the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres on September 16 at the 41st annual Toronto International Film Festival, receiving a standing ovation.
Cameron Baily, the artistic director at TIFF, called it: a "freewheeling, engaging romantic romp [that] has real weight even though its humorous touch is as light as air".
It was later selected as the Saudi Arabian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.
The film was also selected at the 38th Cairo International Film Festival becoming the first Saudi film ever to participate in the festival, receiving a certificate of appreciation.
The film was theatrically released in many countries, including Germany, Switzerland, Austria, UAE, Egypt and Tunisia.
It was released in Germany through Arsenal in 20 cinemas across Germany at March 9, 2017.
Netflix brought the international VoD distribution rights of the film.
It premiered on all Netflix regions (except MENA) on October 12th, 2017, making it the first Saudi film to display at the streaming service.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.

Question: Where did the director of film Barakah Meets Barakah study?
Answer: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism