Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Spike Jonze
Adam Spiegel( born October 22, 1969), known professionally as Spike Jonze( pronounced" Jones"), is an American filmmaker, photographer, and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television.
Jonze began his career as a teenager photographing BMX riders and skateboarders for" Freestylin' Magazine" and" Transworld Skateboarding", and co-founded the youth culture magazine" Dirt".
Moving into filmmaking, he began shooting street skateboarding films, including the influential" Video Days"( 1991).
Jonze co-founded the skateboard company Girl Skateboards in 1993 with riders Rick Howard and Mike Carroll.
Jonze's filmmaking style made him an in- demand director of music videos for much of the 1990s, resulting in collaborations with Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys, Fatboy Slim, Daft Punk, Weezer, Björk, Kanye West and Arcade Fire.
Jonze began his feature film directing career with" Being John Malkovich"( 1999) and" Adaptation."( 2002), both written by Charlie Kaufman; the former earned Jonze an Academy Award nomination for Best Director.
He was a co-creator and executive producer of MTV's" Jackass" reality franchise.
Jonze later began directing films based on his own screenplays, including" Where the Wild Things Are"( 2009) and" Her"( 2013); for the latter film, he won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay, while receiving Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Song(" The Moon Song").
He has worked as an actor sporadically throughout his career, co-starring in David O. Russell's war comedy" Three Kings"( 1999) and appeared in supporting roles in Bennett Miller's" Moneyball"( 2011) and Martin Scorsese's" The Wolf of Wall Street"( 2013), in addition to a recurring role in comedy series" The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret"( 2010 – 2012) and cameo appearances in his own films.
Jonze co-founded Directors Label, with filmmakers Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry, and the Palm Pictures company.
He is currently the creative director of Vice Media, Inc. and its multinational television channel Viceland.
Her (film)
Her is a 2013 American science-fiction romantic drama film written, directed, and produced by Spike Jonze.
It marks Jonze's solo screenwriting debut.
The film follows Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), a man who develops a relationship with Samantha (Scarlett Johansson), an artificially intelligent virtual assistant personified through a female voice.
The film also stars Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde and Chris Pratt.
Jonze conceived the idea in the early 2000s after reading an article about a website that allowed for instant messaging with an artificial intelligence program.
After making "I'm Here" (2010), a short film sharing similar themes, Jonze returned to the idea.
He wrote the first draft of the script in five months.
Principal photography took place in Los Angeles and Shanghai in mid-2012.
The role of Samantha was recast in post-production, with Samantha Morton being replaced with Johansson.
Additional scenes were filmed in August 2013 following the casting change.
"Her" premiered at the 2013 New York Film Festival on October 12, 2013.
Warner Bros. Pictures initially provided a limited release for "Her" at six theaters on December 18.
It was later given a wide release at over 1,700 theaters in the United States and Canada on January 10, 2014.
"Her" received widespread critical acclaim upon its release, and grossed over $48 million worldwide on a production budget of $23 million.
The film received numerous awards and nominations, primarily for Jonze's screenplay.
At the 86th Academy Awards, "Her" received five nominations, including Best Picture, and won the award for Best Original Screenplay.
Jonze also won awards for his screenplay at the 71st Golden Globe Awards, the 66th Writers Guild of America Awards, the 19th Critics' Choice Awards, and the 40th Saturn Awards.
In a 2016 BBC poll of 177 critics around the world, "Her" was voted the 84th-greatest film since 2000.
Sai Paranjpye
Sai Parānjpye( born 19 March 1938) is an Indian movie director and screenwriter.
She is the director of the award- winning movies" SparshKathaChasme Buddoor" and" Disha".
She has written and directed many Marathi plays such as Jaswandi, Sakkhe Shejari, and Albel.
The Government of India awarded Sai the Padma Bhushan title in 2006 in recognition of her artistic talents.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Katha (1983 film)
Katha( English: Story) is a 1983 Hindi film by Sai Paranjpye featuring Naseeruddin Shah, Farooq Shaikh and Deepti Naval in the main roles.
The film is about the daily lives of people living in a Mumbai" chawl".
The story is based on S.G. Sathye's Marathi play" Sasa aani Kasav"( Hare and Tortoise), which was also adapted into the 1988 movie" Mukunthetta Sumitra Vilikkunnu".
It was shot on location at" Salunke Chawl" in Pune.
Jalal Agha and Sarika made guest appearances in the movie.
Apparently, one of the principal characters, played by Farooque Shaikh, was named Basu Bhatt after filmmaker Basu Bhattacharya.
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
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.
Rachel Feldman
Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films.

Question: Are director of film Katha (1983 film) and director of film Her (film) both from the same country?
Answer: no