The Burnt Theatre
The Burnt Theatre, or" Les Artistes du Théâtre Brûlé", is a 2005 French- Cambodian docudrama directed and co-written by Rithy Panh.
A blend of fact and fiction, based on the actual lives of the actors, the film depicts a troupe of actors and dancers struggling to practise their art in the burned- out shell of Cambodia's former national theatre, the Preah Suramarit National Theatre in Phnom Penh.
" The Burnt Theatre" premiered at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival as an official selection in the out- of- competition main programme, and has been screened at several other film festivals.
Dear Cardholder
Dear Cardholder is a 1987 Australian film about a man who gets in debt on his credit cards.
The film failed to find a cinema release and director Bill Bennett feels as though he made a mistake in not making the film funny enough or the lead sufficiently sympathetic.
He also says he felt he did not spend enough time on the script.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Rithy Panh
Rithy Panh( born April 18, 1964) is a Cambodian documentary film director and screenwriter.
The French- schooled director's films focus on the aftermath of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.
Rithy Panh's works are from an authoritative viewpoint, because his family were expelled from Phnom Penh in 1975 by the Khmer Rouge.
One after another, his father, mother, sisters and nephews died of starvation or exhaustion, as they were held in a remote labor camp in rural Cambodia.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Peng Phan
Peng Phan is a Cambodian film actress.
She has been featured in three films by Rithy Panh:" Rice PeopleOne Evening After the War" and" The Burnt Theatre".
In her feature film debut," Rice People", Phan portrayed
Om, the mentally unstable wife of a farmer and the mother of seven daughters, all struggling during a single rice- planting season.
In 2005's" The Burnt Theatre", she portrayed herself, or a character who was an actress named Peng Phan who suffered survivor guilt and psychosomatic illness.
Ben Cura
Ben Cura( born 30 September 1988) is a British- Argentine actor and director of film, television and theatre.
Bill Bennett (director)
Bill Bennett( born 1953) is an Australian film director, producer and screenwriter.
He dropped out of Medicine at the University of Queensland in 1972 and joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as a journalist.
During a ten- year career as a journalist he won Australia's top TV award, the Logie Awards( Australia's Emmy) for Television Reporter of the Year, and then later for Most Outstanding Documentary.
This led him to feature films.
Bennett has directed 16 feature films since 1983.
His film" Backlash" was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.
Three years later his film" Malpractice" would be screened in the same section at the 1989 festival.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.

Question: Do director of film Dear Cardholder and director of film The Burnt Theatre have the same nationality?
Answer: no