Funny Face
Funny Face is a 1957 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and written by Leonard Gershe, containing assorted songs by George and Ira Gershwin.
Although having the same title as the 1927 Broadway musical" Funny Face" by the Gershwin brothers, and featuring the same male star( Fred Astaire), the plot is totally different and only four of the songs from the stage musical are included.
Alongside Astaire, the film stars Audrey Hepburn and Kay Thompson.
Shane MacDougall
Shane MacDougall is a Canadian stand- up comedian, former columnist, television writer, and documentarian.
Best known for his 1999 challenge to Queen Elizabeth II to a kickboxing match or math test for the monarchy of Canada, the challenge resulted in him receiving death threats but also brought much media attention to the burgeoning Canadian republican movement.
He is also known for The Dark Show, which in the late 1990s was Canada's longest running independent comedy show.
Held at Toronto's famous Rivoli club, The Dark Show featured some of Canada's top comedians doing material on topics from school shootings to date rape, and also generated protests from some citizens.
From 1999 to 2000, he was a comedy reporter and humorist for" Eye Weekly" in Toronto, then in 2000 moved to New York City, where he worked as a writer for various MTV shows.
In 2005, MacDougall completed filming on a documentary entitled" Wiener Takes All", which followed the competitive dachshund racing circuit.
The documentary is currently traveling the festival circuit, and has screened at, or is scheduled to screen at such venues as the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, Bend Film Festival, the Laguna Beach Film Society/ Museum of Art, and the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
Jason Moore (director)
Jason Moore( born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television.
Wiener Takes All: A Dogumentary
Wiener Takes All: A Dogumentary is a 2007 documentary film that chronicles the lives of America's top competitive dachshunds and their owners.
Directed by Shane MacDougall, the film follows five competitors in the Wienerschnitzel "Wiener Nationals" dachshund racing circuit, from the scandal of the 2003 Wiener Nationals, through to the 2005 championships this December in San Diego.
The film opens with Noodles' controversial 2003 loss, and the ensuing Noodles-Pretzel rivalry - one that is cut short with Pretzel's tragic sudden death.
Only a few weeks later Noodles triumphantly wins the 2004 Wiener Nationals - this time free and clear.
The glory is short-lived, as he is forced into retirement by race organizers, and Team Noodles has to decide whether to accept his premature sojourn from the sport, or try and qualify out of state.
The film also follows some of America's top show dogs as they go to the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, then switches gears and heads to the heartland of Texas for the DCA Earthdog championships.
Allegations of doping, match fixing, animal cruelty, and discrimination are investigated, and revealing interviews with some of America's top judges, including Anne Rogers Clark, explain the background of some of the famous controversies in the dachshund (and dog show) world.
Ben Cura
Ben Cura( born 30 September 1988) is a British- Argentine actor and director of film, television and theatre.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Stanley Donen
Stanley Donen( April 13, 1924 – February 21, 2019) was an American film director and choreographer whose most celebrated works are" On the Town"( 1949) and" Singin' in the Rain"( 1952), both of which starred Gene Kelly who co-directed.
His other films include" Royal Wedding"( 1951)," Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"( 1954)," Funny Face"( 1957)," Indiscreet"( 1958), and" Charade"( 1963).
He began his career in the chorus line on Broadway for director George Abbott, where he befriended Kelly.
From 1943, he was in Hollywood and worked as a choreographer before beginning to collaborate with Kelly.
After" On the Town", Donen worked as a contract director for MGM under producer Arthur Freed producing critically well- received box- office hits.
Donen and Kelly co-directed the musical" Singin' in the Rain", released in April 1952, which has appeared on lists of the best films ever made.
Donen's relationship with Kelly deteriorated during their final collaboration," It's Always Fair Weather"( 1955).
He then broke his contract with MGM to become an independent producer in 1957.
He continued making films throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, often financial successes that gained positive attention.
His film output became less frequent in the early 1980s and he briefly returned to the stage as a director in the 1990s and again in 2002.
Donen is credited with having transitioned Hollywood musical films from realistic backstage dramas to a more integrated art form in which the songs were a natural continuation of the story.
Before Donen and Kelly made their films, musicals – such as the extravagant and stylized work of Busby Berkeley – were often set in a Broadway stage environment where the musical numbers were part of a stage show.
Donen and Kelly's films created a more cinematic form and included dances that could only be achieved in the film medium.
Donen stated that what he was doing was a" direct continuation from the Astaire – Rogers musicals ... which in turn came from René Clair and from Lubitsch ...
What" we" did was not geared towards realism but towards the unreal."
Donen is highly respected by film historians; however his career is often compared to Kelly's, and there is debate over who deserves more credit for their collaborations.
Donen and Kelly's relationship was complicated, both professionally and personally, but Donen's films as a solo director are generally better regarded by critics than Kelly's.
French film critic Jean- Pierre Coursodon has said that Donen's contribution to the evolution of the Hollywood musical" outshines anybody else's, including Vincente Minnelli's".
David Quinlan called him" the King of the Hollywood musicals".
Among his awards are an Honorary Academy Award in 1998 and a Career Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival in 2004.
Donen married five times and had three children.
Film director and comedian Elaine May was his partner from 1999 until his death in 2019.
He was the last surviving notable director of Hollywood's Golden Age.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.

Question: Do director of film Funny Face and director of film Wiener Takes All: A Dogumentary have the same nationality?