Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Pather Panchali
Pather Panchali is a 1955 Indian Bengali- language drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray and produced by the Government of West Bengal.
It is based on Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's 1929 Bengali novel of the same name and is Ray's directorial debut.
It features Subir Banerjee, Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Uma Dasgupta and Chunibala Devi.
The first film in" The Apu Trilogy Pather Panchali" depicts the childhood of the protagonist Apu( Subir Banerjee) and his elder sister Durga( Uma Dasgupta) and the harsh village life of their poor family.
Production was interrupted because of funding problems and it took nearly three years for the film to be completed.
The film was shot mainly on location, had a limited budget, featured mostly amateur actors, and was made by an inexperienced crew.
The sitar player Ravi Shankar composed the film's soundtrack and score using classical Indian ragas.
Subrata Mitra was in charge of the cinematography while editing was handled by Dulal Dutta.
Following its premiere on 3 May 1955 during an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art," Pather Panchali" was released in Calcutta later the same year to an enthusiastic reception.
A special screening was attended by the Chief Minister of West Bengal and the Prime Minister of India.
Critics have praised its realism, humanity, and soul- stirring qualities while others have called its slow pace a drawback, and some have condemned it for romanticising poverty.
Scholars have commented on the film's lyrical quality and realism( influenced by Italian neorealism), its portrayal of the poverty and small delights of daily life, and the use of what the author Darius Cooper has termed the" epiphany of wonder", among other themes.
The tale of Apu's life is continued in the two subsequent installments of Ray's trilogy:" Aparajito The Unvanquished", 1956) and" Apur Sansar The World of Apu", 1959).
" Pather Panchali" is described as a turning point in Indian cinema, as it was among the films that pioneered the Parallel Cinema movement, which espoused authenticity and social realism.
The first film from independent India to attract major international critical attention, it won India's National Film Award for Best Feature Film in 1955, the Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival, and several other awards, establishing Ray as one of the country's most distinguished filmmakers.
It is often featured in lists of the greatest films ever made.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Peggy Bryan
Margaret Eileen" Peggy" Bryan
( 3 January 1916 – 12 January 1996) was an English film and stage actress, born in Birmingham, England.
She appeared in many films, including most notably as the screen wife of George Formby in the comedy film" Turned Out Nice Again"( 1941).
She married cinematographer Wilkie Cooper, with whom she had three sons.
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray( 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, music composer, graphic artist, lyricist and author, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.
Ray was born in Calcutta into a Bengali family which was prominent in the field of arts and literature.
Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film" Bicycle Thieves"( 1948) during a visit to London.
Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts.
He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, music composer, graphic designer and film critic.
He authored several short stories and novels, meant primarily for young children and teenagers.
Feluda, the sleuth, and Professor Shonku, the scientist in his science fiction stories, are popular fictional characters created by him.
He was awarded an honorary degree by Oxford University.
Ray's first film," Pather Panchali"( 1955), won eleven international prizes, including the inaugural Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
This film, along with" Aparajito"( 1956) and" Apur Sansar The World of Apu")( 1959), form" The Apu Trilogy".
Ray did the scripting, casting, scoring, and editing, and designed his own credit titles and publicity material.
Ray received many major awards in his career, including 32 Indian National Film Awards, a Golden Lion, a Golden Bear, 2 Silver Bears, a number of additional awards at international film festivals and award ceremonies, and an Academy Honorary Award in 1992.
The Government of India honored him with the Bharat Ratna, its highest civilian award, in 1992.
Ray had received many noticeable awards and gained a prestigious position over his life time.
In 2004, Ray was ranked number 13 in BBC's poll of the Greatest Bengali of all time.
Ben Cura
Ben Cura( born 30 September 1988) is a British- Argentine actor and director of film, television and theatre.
Marcel Varnel
Marcel Varnel( 16 October 1892 – 13 July 1947) was a film director.
He was born Marcel Hyacinthe le Bozec in Paris, France.
Varnel started his working life on the Paris stage, soon becoming a director of musical comedies.
In 1925 he moved to New York City working as director in several Broadway operettas, musicals and dramas for the Shubert family.
This was followed by a move to Hollywood where he directed three low budget thrillers.
In 1934, he moved to England and it was as director of British comedies initially working at British International Pictures, Elstree then in 1936 moving to Gainsborough Pictures where he produced his best films.
Among the performers he worked with were Will Hay, The Crazy Gang, Arthur Askey and George Formby.
He died in a car crash near Rake, West Sussex.
Turned Out Nice Again
Turned Out Nice Again is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Lancashire- born George Formby.
Made at Ealing Studios," Turned Out Nice Again" premiered at the London Pavilion Cinema on 30 June 1941.

Question: Are both director of film Turned Out Nice Again and director of film Pather Panchali from the same country?
Answer: no