Andrei Severny (filmmaker)
Andrei Severny( Russian: Андрей Северный; born September 1, 1977) is a contemporary filmmaker, screenwriter, photographer and visual artist.
Severny's films include" Buried SeedsInside Risk: Shadows of MedellinConditionTeaching to SeeDisparaît, v" and" Tom on Mars".
Jenny Bowen (filmmaker)
Jenny Bowen is an American screenwriter and director known for her work on films like" Street Music" and" In Quiet Night".
She is married to the cinematographer Richard Bowen.
Bowen intended to be an actress, performing in plays while attending San Francisco State University.
She later began directing stage plays before becoming interested in sound design.
Bowen formulated the idea for her debut feature," Street Music", during a production lull in Francis Ford Coppola's" Apocalypse Now", where she was working as a recording engineer.
After the success of" Street Music", she went on to direct three more films.
In 1998, she retired from filmmaking and founded OneSky for all children, a global NGO that works with orphaned and abandoned children worldwide.
She has also published a book," Wish You Happy Forever", based on her work with OneSky.
In 2008, she was chosen by popular vote to carry the Olympic Torch on Chinese soil ahead of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Gravitation: Variation in Time and Space
Gravitation: Variation in Time and Space is a 2015 black& white art film, written and produced by Rem Hass and directed by Andrei Severny.
Gravitation is a synergy of dance, cinema and abstract art and stars Diana Vishneva, principal dancer of the Mariinsky Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre.
The movements were choreographed by Mauro Bigonzetti specifically for the film.
The work was shot entirely in slow motion with Phantom Flex4 K cameras in 500- 1,000 frames- per-second.
The film was shot on location at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City.
Gravitation premiered at the Marfa Film Festival in October 2015.
It received a Golden Palm Award at the Mexico International Film Festival and a Rising Star Award at the Canada International Film Festival.
It was selected by NASA as a finalist at the CineSpace program at the Houston Cinema Arts Festival and screened at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and screened in Moscow, London, Rome, Santander, Napa, Martinique.
Wizard of New Zealand
The Wizard of New Zealand QSM( born Ian Brackenbury Channell; 4 December 1932) is a New Zealand educator, comedian, magician and politician.
He is also known by his shorter name, The Wizard.
The Wizard of Loneliness (film)
The Wizard of Loneliness is a 1988 American drama film directed by Jenny Bowen and starring Lukas Haas, Lea Thompson, Lance Guest, Dylan Baker, and John Randolph.
It is based on the 1966 book of the same name by John Nichols.
Michael Patrick Hearn
Michael Patrick Hearn is an American literary scholar as well as a man of letters specializing in children's literature and its illustration.
His works include "The Annotated Wizard of Oz" (1971/2000), "The Annotated Christmas Carol" (1977/2003), and "The Annotated Huckleberry Finn" (2001).
He considers the three most quintessential American novels to be "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum, and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain.
He is an expert on L. Frank Baum and is currently writing a biography about him, which sets forth to correct the numerous errors in previous biographies, many based on Frank Joslyn Baum's out of print and largely mythological "To Please a Child".
As an Oz and L. Frank Baum scholar, he also edited "The Critical Heritage Edition of the Wizard of Oz" for Schocken Books (1986), wrote the introduction to the first published version of the screenplay of "The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)".
He appears in the documentaries "Oz: the American Fairyland" and "Matilda Joslyn Gage" (1983), credited as an "Authority on L. Frank Baum".
He gave the keynote address at the Centennial convention of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" mounted by The International Wizard of Oz Club, and often makes public appearances in which he lectures on Baum.
Olga C. Nardone
Olga Nida Carmena Nardone( June 8, 1921 – September 24, 2010) was an actress and one of the last surviving Munchkins from the 1939 film" The Wizard of Oz", in which she played a member of the Lullaby League.
She was known as" Little Olga" and" Princess Olga" and was one of the smallest of the Wizard of Oz Munchkins, standing at just 3 foot 4 inches( 101.6 cm) tall.
The fact that she had done ballet solos in vaudeville helped get her the part.
Florence Ryerson
Florence Ryerson( September 20, 1892 – June 8, 1965) was a playwright, screenwriter, and co-author of the script for the 1939 film" The Wizard of Oz".
Under the Rainbow
Under the Rainbow is a 1981 American comedy film directed by Steve Rash and starring Chevy Chase, Carrie Fisher, Eve Arden, and Billy Barty.
The plot is loosely based on the gathering of little people in a Hollywood hotel to audition for roles as Munchkins in the film" The Wizard of Oz".
Jerry Maren, who played the small role of Smokey in this film, previously played a member of the Lollipop Guild in" The Wizard of Oz".
The film was nominated for Razzie Awards for Worst Musical Score by Joe Renzetti, and Worst Supporting Actor( Billy Barty).
It received extremely negative reviews, many of which condemned the various sight gags involving the little people.
The production marked the first film role of several actors, including Phil Fondacaro and Debbie Lee Carrington.
It was partially filmed on location at the Culver Hotel, where the actors playing Munchkins stayed during the production of" The Wizard of Oz".
Apocalypse Oz
Apocalypse Oz is a 2006 short film.
It is based on the novels "Heart of Darkness" (1899) by Joseph Conrad and "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900) by L. Frank Baum.
The script is a hybrid of the two classic films "Apocalypse Now" and "The Wizard of Oz", and uses only dialogue from these films.

Question: Are the directors of films Gravitation: Variation In Time And Space and The Wizard Of Loneliness (Film) both from the same country?
Answer: no