Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Robert Rodriguez
Robert Anthony Rodriguez( born June 20, 1968) is an American filmmaker and visual effects supervisor.
He shoots, edits, produces, and scores many of his films in Mexico and in his home state of Texas.
Rodriguez directed the 1992 action film" El Mariachi", which was a commercial success after grossing$ 2 million against a budget of$ 7,000.
The film spawned two sequels known collectively as the" Mexico Trilogy Desperado" and" Once Upon a Time in Mexico".
He directed" From Dusk Till Dawn" in 1996 and developed its( 2014–2016).
Rodriguez co-directed the 2005 neo- noir crime thriller anthology" Sin City"( adapted from the graphic novel of the same name) and the 2014 sequel,. Rodriguez also directed the" Spy Kids" films," The Faculty The Adventures of Sharkboy and LavagirlPlanet TerrorMachete", and.
He is the best friend and frequent collaborator of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, who founded the production company A Band Apart, of which Rodriguez was a member.
In December 2013, Rodriguez launched his own cable television channel, El Rey.
Maidstone (film)
Maidstone is a 1970 American independent film drama written, produced, and directed by Norman Mailer.
It stars Mailer, Rip Torn, and Ultra Violet.
In it, famous film director Norman Kingsley runs for President, and a group of friends, relatives, employees, and lobbyists gather to discuss possible assassination plots against Kingsley's life.
While producing his latest film about a brothel, Kingsley's brother Raoul continues to cling to him for his money.
The film's title refers to a town in England called Maidstone.
Critical reviews were generally negative.
Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailer( January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film- maker, actor, and liberal political activist.
His novel" The Naked and the Dead" was published in 1948, and brought him early and wide renown.
His 1968 nonfiction novel" Armies of the Night" won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award.
His best- known work is widely considered to be" The Executioner's Song", the 1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
In over six decades of work, Mailer had eleven best- selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II—more than any other post-war American writer.
Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, which uses the style and devices of literary fiction in fact- based journalism.
Mailer was also known for his essays, the most famous and reprinted of which is" The White Negro".
He was a cultural commentator and critic, expressing his views through his novels, journalism, essays, and frequent media appearances.
In 1955, Mailer and three others founded" The Village Voice", an arts- and politics- oriented weekly newspaper distributed in Greenwich Village.
In 1960, he was convicted of assault and served a three- year probation after he stabbed his wife, Adele Morales, with a penknife, nearly killing her.
In 1969, he ran an unsuccessful campaign to become the mayor of New York.
While principally known as a novelist and journalist, Mailer was not afraid to bend genres and venture outside his comfort zone; he lived a life that seemed to embody an idea that echoes throughout his work:
" There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Jason Moore (director)
Jason Moore( born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television.
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.
Alita: Battle Angel
Alita: Battle Angel is a 2019 American cyberpunk action film based on the 1990s Japanese manga series" Gunnm" by Yukito Kishiro.
It was directed by Robert Rodriguez and produced by James Cameron, who co-wrote the script with Laeta Kalogridis.
Rosa Salazar stars as the voice of titular heroine Alita, a cyborg who awakens in a new body with no memory of her past, so she sets out to uncover her destiny.
Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley, and Keean Johnson star in supporting roles.
Announced in 2003, production was repeatedly delayed due to Cameron's work on" Avatar"( 2009) and its sequels.
After years of development hell, Rodriguez was announced as" Alita"'s director in April 2016, with Salazar cast as the lead the following month.
Principal photography began in October 2016 in Austin, Texas, mostly at Rodriguez's Troublemaker Studios, and lasted until February 2017.
" Alita: Battle Angel" had its world premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square on January 31, 2019, and was released in the United States on February 14, 2019, by 20th Century Fox in RealD 3D, Dolby Cinema 3D and IMAX 3D formats.
It is the first film produced by Lightstorm Entertainment since" Avatar".
The film grossed over worldwide, making it Rodriguez's highest- grossing film.
It received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for Salazar's performance, the action scenes, and the visual effects but criticism for the screenplay.

Question: Do director of film Maidstone (film) and director of film Alita: Battle Angel have the same nationality?
Answer: yes