Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Paula van der Oest
Paula van der Oest (born 1965) is a Dutch film director and screenwriter.
Her 2001 film "Zus & Zo" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
With her final exam at the Dutch Film and Television Academy, "Zinderend", she won a Cannon Award in 1988.
In the following years, she worked as an assistant director, until she returned in 1994 as a director.
For the VPRO-series "Lolamoviola" she made the short movies "Coma" and "Achilles en het zebrapad" (Achilles and the Zebracrossing).
With the first, she won a Golden Calf for the best television drama.
In 1996 Van der Oest made her first long movie, "De nieuwe moederThe New Mother").
Her husband at the time, Theu Boermans, had a role in this movie (later, he would also have a role in "Zus & ZoDe trip van Teetje" (the journey of Teetje) was produced in 1998, with Cees Geel as a louche entrepreneur who buys a Russian cargo ship.
With "Zus & Zo", loosely based on Chekhov's "The Three Sisters", Van der Oest directed her first mainstream film in 2001.
The realistic characters and the relations among the individuals from her former movies remained central, but there was more humour added, and an English script doctor made some changes, resulting in an Oscar nomination.
However, the general public left the movie unseen.
Hereafter she created the English thriller/fairytale "Moonlight" (2002) about the relation between a 13-year-old girl and a balloon swallower of the same age; the film "Madame Jeannette", situated in the Suriname-community (which was a great success in the Amsterdam Bijlmer area in 2004); and the film "Verborgen gebreken" (2004), based on a book by Renate Dorrestein.
"Moonlight" was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival.
In 2001, she wrote the screenplay for Meral Uslu's telefilm "Roos and Rana".
Currently, Paula van der Oest is planning a second film about Suriname and she is working on a movie based on Heleen van Royen's "De gelukkige huisvrouw" (The Happy Homemaker).
Zus & Zo
Zus& Zo is a 2001 Dutch film directed by Paula van der Oest.
It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
It deals with three sisters stopping their gay brother's new bride inheriting the family hotel.
They use various comedic methods to stop the wedding.
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
La Storia (film)
La Storia( History) is a 1986 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Comencini and starring Claudia Cardinale.
It is based on the 1974 novel of the same name written by Elsa Morante.
A shorter version of the film was released theatrically, while a 4 hours and a half version was broadcast in three parts on Rai 2 on December 1986.
It premiered out of competition at the 43rd Venice International Film Festival, where Cardinale refused to appear, upset because the film had not been selected in the main competition.
Luigi Comencini
Luigi Comencini( 8 June 1916 – 6 April 2007) was an Italian film director.
Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the" commedia all'italiana" genre.
His daughters Cristina and Francesca are both film directors.
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: Do director of film La Storia (Film) and director of film Zus & Zo share the same nationality?
Answer: no