Hassan Zee
Hassan Zee is a Pakistani- American film director who was born in Chakwal, Pakistan.
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.
The Whales of August
The Whales of August is a 1987 American drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Bette Davis and Lillian Gish as elderly sisters.
Also in the cast were Ann Sothern as one of their friends, and Vincent Price as a peripheral member of the former Russian aristocracy.
The story is based on the play of the same name by David Berry.
The film was shot on location on Maine's Cliff Island.
The house still stands and is a popular subject of artists on the island.
In this film Lillian Gish and Ann Sothern played their final film roles.
Henry Moore (cricketer)
Henry Walter Moore( 1849 – 20 August 1916) was an English- born first- class cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand.
David Berry (writer)
David Adams Berry( July 8, 1943 – December 16, 2016) was an American screenwriter and playwright.
He is best known for his stage play" The Whales of August" and its 1987 screen adaptation, for which he also wrote the screenplay.
Martin Villeneuve
Martin Villeneuve( born March 13, 1978) is a French Canadian screenwriter, producer, director, actor, and art director.
He was nominated at the Canadian Screen Award( formerly Genie Award) in 2013 for Best Adapted Screenplay, for" Mars et Avril", his feature film debut, and Quebec's first true science fiction movie.
Villeneuve is also the first( and so far, the only), TED speaker to come out of Quebec.
He was formerly working for Cirque du Soleil as a commercial creativity artistic director.
Rumbi Katedza
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Hartley Lobban
Hartley W Lobban (9 May 1926 – 15 October 2004) was a Jamaican-born first-class cricketer who played 17 matches for Worcestershire in the early 1950s.
Lindsay Anderson
Lindsay Gordon Anderson( 17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was a British feature- film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading- light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave.
He is most widely remembered for his 1968 film" if...", which won the" Palme d' Or" at Cannes Film Festival in 1969 and marked Malcolm McDowell's cinematic debut.
He is also notable, though not a professional actor, for playing a minor role in the Academy Award- winning 1981 film" Chariots of Fire".
McDowell produced a 2007 documentary about his experiences with Anderson," Never Apologize".
Mars and April
Mars et Avril( English: Mars and April) is a 2012 Canadian science fiction film starring Jacques Languirand, Caroline Dhavernas, Paul Ahmarani and Robert Lepage.
The movie, based on the photo- novels of the same name published by Sid Lee& la Pastèque, is written, produced and directed by Martin Villeneuve.
Shot on a very tight budget of C$ 2.3 million and with abundant use of green screen, Villeneuve's feature film debut has a significant amount of visual effects.
Belgian comic book artist François Schuiten is the production designer, former ILM Senior Compositor Carlos Monzon worked as VFX supervisor, and Benoît Charest composed the original score.
The film was financed by Telefilm Canada, SODEC, Les Productions du 8e Art and the Harold Greenberg Fund, and is distributed in Canada by Alliance Vivafilm( now owned by e One) and in the United States by Gaiam.
The was released in Quebec theatres and on Alliance Vivafilm's YouTube channel on December 21, 2011.
The world premiere took place on July 2, 2012, at the 47th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic( the film was selected in the section" Another View" for its unique artistic approach in both form and content).
Since then, the film has been screened in twenty other major cinema events around the globe and has received 10 nominations.
Martin Villeneuve was nominated for “ Best Adapted Screenplay ” at the 2013 Canadian Screen Awards, and he also won an “ Imaging the Future Award ” at the Neuchâtel International Fantasy Film Festival in Switzerland.
In addition, Villeneuve gave a TED Talk about his film at TED2013 in Long Beach, California, thereby becoming the first speaker to come out of Québec.

Question: Which film has the director who was born first, Mars And April or The Whales Of August?
Answer: The Whales Of August