Yolanda Vazquez
Yolanda Vazquez( born 5 November 1960) is a film, television and theatre actress best known for appearing in the film" The Air Up There".
More recently, she had a cameo in the well- received British indie science fiction thriller," Children of Men".
Vazquez has appeared in productions of Shakespeare's" A Midsummer Night's Dream"( for the Royal Shakespeare Company) and" Much Ado About Nothing".
Notable television appearances include the part of Maria in" The Final Cut", the third series in the" House of Cards" trilogy.
She was also in an episode of" Midsomer Murders" and in" Who Killed Cock Robin?"( 2001), where she played a Spanish riding instructor.
In 1993, she appeared as a tango dancer named Lola in an episode of" Agatha Christie's Poirot".
Thor Heyerdahl
Thor Heyerdahl( October 6, 1914 – April 18, 2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany, and geography.
He became notable for his" Kon- Tiki" expedition in 1947, in which he sailed 8,000 km( 5,000 mi) across the Pacific Ocean in a hand- built raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands.
The expedition was designed to demonstrate that ancient people could have made long sea voyages, creating contacts between separate cultures.
This was linked to a diffusionist model of cultural development.
Heyerdahl subsequently made other voyages designed to demonstrate the possibility of contact between widely separated ancient people, notably the" Ra II" expedition of 1970, when he sailed from the west coast of Africa to Barbados in a papyrus reed boat.
He was appointed a government scholar in 1984.
In May 2011, the Thor Heyerdahl Archives were added to UNESCO's" Memory of the World" Register.
At the time, this list included 238 collections from all over the world.
The Heyerdahl Archives span the years 1937 to 2002 and include his photographic collection, diaries, private letters, expedition plans, articles, newspaper clippings, original book, and article manuscripts.
The Heyerdahl Archives are administered by the Kon- Tiki Museum and the National Library of Norway in Oslo.
Charles Gitonga Maina
Charles Gitonga Maina( born 1976) is a 6' 10" Kenyan- born former actor and basketball player best known for his co-starring role in the 1994 film" The Air Up There".
Jack Shea (director)
Jack Shea (August 1, 1928 – April 28, 2013) was an American film and television director.
He was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1997 to 2002.
Paul Michael Glaser
Paul Michael Glaser( born March 25, 1943), is an American actor and director best known for his role as Detective David Starsky on the 1970s television series," Starsky& Hutch".
Glaser also appeared as Captain Jack Steeper on the NBC series" Third Watch" from 2004 to 2005.
Taurian Fontenette
Taurian J. Fontenette( born 1983 Githeriville, Georgia), also known as" Air Up There" and" Mr. 720", is a streetball player from Hitchcock, Texas.
He is a former player on the AND1 Mixtape and Ball4Real Tours.
Fontenette recently signed a contract to play for the Dallas Generals of the American Basketball Association.
He is 6' 2" tall and weighs 185 pounds.
Fontenette attended Hitchcock High School( Class of 2000) and attended three different colleges: UTEP in 2000- 01, Richland Junior College in 2001- 04, and Paul Quinn College in 2004- 05.
His original streetball name was" Air Up There", but due to naming rights claimed by AND1, he goes by" Mr. 720 Birdman The Human Pogo StickYour Highness", and" Way Up There."
As his nickname implies, Fontenette is best known for his leaping and dunking ability.
During the AND1 game in Houston, Texas in 2006, Fontenette stunned fans by performing the first ever widely documented 720- degree dunk.
Video clips of the feat have been shown on ESPN's" SportsCenter" and also have been widely distributed over the internet.
He's also well known for his signature dunk, the axle- rider( a.k.a. the 360- degree between- the- legs), which he says he did before everyone else back in his high school days.
Fontenette is considered by some to be one of the best dunkers ever due to his sole ability to do a 720 degree dunk and the ease with which he can perform his axle- rider dunk( such as in games and on breakaways).
Matt Corboy
Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor.
He has appeared in both films and television series.
The Air Up There
The Air Up There is a 1994 American comedy film directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starring Kevin Bacon and Charles Gitonga Maina with Yolanda Vazquez as Sister Susan.
Galapagos (1955 film)
Galapagos is a 1955 travel and nature documentary film made by explorer Thor Heyerdahl, showing the flora and fauna of the Galapagos archipelago.
I Want Your Love (film)
I Want Your
Love is the title of both a 2010 short film and a 2012 feature- length film.
Both films were directed and written by Travis Mathews.
The drama films both revolve around the friends and ex-lovers of Jesse Metzger, a gay man in his mid-thirties who is forced to move back to his hometown from San Francisco due to financial reasons.
The actors' own names, along with much of their real- life stories, were used for their characters in both films, which features graphic sexual scenes.
The production of both films was aided by the gay pornographic studio NakedSword.
This led to the full- length film being refused exemption from classification, which would have allowed it to screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a decision to which actor James Franco( who invited Mathews to collaborate on Franco's film" Interior. Leather Bar.") reacted negatively.

Question: Are the directors of both films Galapagos (1955 Film) and The Air Up There from the same country?
Answer: no