François Girard
François Girard( born January 12, 1963) is a French- Canadian director and screenwriter.
Born in Quebec, Girard's career began on the Montreal art video circuit.
In 1990, he produced his first feature film," Cargo"; he attained international recognition following his 1993" Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould", a series of vignettes about the life of piano prodigy Glenn Gould.
In 1998, he wrote and directed" The Red Violin", which follows the ownership of a red violin over several centuries.
" The Red Violin" won an Academy Award for Best Original Score, thirteen Genie Awards and nine Jutra Awards.
He has also directed various works for the stage, including Stravinsky's" Symphony of PsalmsOedipus Rex" and" Novencento" at the Edinburgh International Festival; Kafka's" The Trial", adapted for the stage by Serge Lamothe at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa; the oratorio" Lost Objects" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music;" Siegfried" in Toronto; and" The Lindbergh Flight" and" The Seven Deadly Sins", first in Lyon and then in Edinburgh.
Girard has also produced a residency show for Cirque du Soleil," Zed", in Tokyo and" Zarkana", which opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York in the summer of 2011.
In 2013 the Metropolitan Opera in New York opened a new production of Richard Wagner's" Parsifal" directed by Girard.
The production received near universal acclaim from critics and audiences alike.
His television credits include" Le dortoirPeter Gabriel's Secret World" and" The Sound of the Carceri", one of the six episodes of" Yo Yo Ma Inspired by Bach".
Onmyōji (film)
A sequel," Onmyōji 2", appeared in 2003.
Both movies are based on the" Onmyōji" series of novels by author Baku Yumemakura, which also inspired a manga series by Reiko Okano.
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Shauna O'Brien
Shauna O'Brien( born October 17, 1970) is an American model and actress.
She has appeared mostly in both B-movies and adult films.
The Red Violin
The Red Violin  is a 1998 drama film directed by François Girard and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Carlo Cecchi and Sylvia Chang.
It spans four centuries and five countries as it tells the story of a mysterious red-coloured violin and its many owners.
The instrument, made in Cremona in 1681 with a future forecast by tarot cards, makes its way to Montreal in 1997, where an appraiser identifies it and it goes to auction.
The film was an international co-production among companies in Canada, Italy, and the United Kingdom.
The screenplay was written by Don McKellar, who also acts, and Girard, inspired by a historic 1720 Stradivarius violin nicknamed the "Red Mendelssohn".
The film was shot in Austria, Canada, China, England and Italy and features a soundtrack by John Corigliano, with solos performed by violinist Joshua Bell.
After premiering in the Venice Film Festival, it received some positive reviews from critics and grossed $10 million in the U.S. box office.
It received numerous honours, including the Academy Award for Best Original Score and eight Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture.
Radical Harmonies
Radical Harmonies is a 2002 American independent documentary film directed and executive produced by Dee Mosbacher that presents a history of women's music, which has been defined as music by women, for women, and about women.
The film was screened primarily at LGBTQ film festivals in 2003 and 2004.
Using archival performance footage, still photographs, and interviews with many women involved in the early years and heyday of women's music, "Radical Harmonies" presents a history of the genre that one scholar has described as "the soundtrack for the cultural arm of radical feminism".
The film depicts "women's music as both a cultural network comprising visual arts, dance, theater, and music, and as a utopian vision of women's community".
The interviewees include not only women's music pioneers such as Cris Williamson, Holly Near, Linda Tillery, Mary Watkins, Ferron, Alix Dobkin and Bernice Johnson Reagon but also festival producers, concert promoters, sound engineers, sign language interpreters, dancers, comedians, choral conductors, photographers, journalists, record distributors, and record label executives who were part of the cultural movement that was essentially unknown to mainstream audiences.
Younger musicians and bands such as Toshi Reagon, Ubaka Hill, Bitch and Animal, and Tribe 8 are also featured, as well as interviews with mainstream artists Amy Ray and Ani DiFranco who "insist on the importance of the women's music movement to their own careers".
The documentary is a Woman Vision film.
Director Mosbacher, a lesbian feminist activist filmmaker and psychiatrist, established Woman Vision as a nonprofit organization "to promote equal treatment of all people through the production and use of educational media".
Musicians involved in the film's production include June Millington as associate director, Margie Adam as associate producer, and Judith Casselberry as production consultant.
The Red Violin (soundtrack)
The Red Violin is the original soundtrack album, on the Sony Classical label, of the 1999 film" The Red Violin"( original title:" Le violon rouge"), starring Carlo Cecchi, Sandra Oh and Samuel L. Jackson.
The original score and songs were composed by John Corigliano and performed by Philharmonia Orchestra with Esa -Pekka Salonen conducting.
The album won the Academy Award for Best Original Score and was nominated for a Grammy Award: Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media( lost to the score of" A Bug's Life").
1998 Toronto International Film Festival
The 23rd Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 10 to September 19, 1998.
A total of 311 films were screened during the ten- day festival, commencing with the opening gala," The Red Violin".
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Bob Random
Bob Random( born January 29, 1943) is a Canadian- born character actor who appeared in both movies and television from the mid-1960s to the late 1980s.

Question: Are both movies, Radical Harmonies and The Red Violin, from the same country?