Andrew Wakefield
Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 1957) is a discredited British ex-physician who became an anti-vaccine activist.
As a gastroenterologist at the Royal Free Hospital in London, he published a 1998 paper in "The Lancet" claiming a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism.
Other researchers were unable to reproduce Wakefield's findings, and a 2004 investigation by "Sunday Times" reporter Brian Deer identified undisclosed financial conflicts of interest on Wakefield's part.
Most of Wakefield's co-authors then withdrew their support for the study's interpretations.
The British General Medical Council (GMC) conducted an inquiry into allegations of misconduct against Wakefield and two former colleagues, focusing on Deer's findings.
In 2010, the GMC found that Wakefield had been dishonest in his research, had acted against his patients' best interests and mistreated developmentally delayed children, and had "failed in his duties as a responsible consultantThe Lancet" fully retracted Wakefield's 1998 publication on the basis of the GMC's findings, noting that elements of the manuscript had been falsified and that the journal had been "deceived" by Wakefield.
Three months later, Wakefield was struck off the UK medical register, due in part to his deliberate falsification of research published in "The Lancet", and was barred from practising medicine in the UK.
In a related legal decision, a British court held that "[t]here is now no respectable body of opinion which supports [Dr. Wakefield's] hypothesis, that MMR vaccine and autism/enterocolitis are causally linked".
The "British Medical Journal" described Wakefield's work as an "elaborate fraud".
Subsequent reporting by Deer revealed that Wakefield had planned to capitalize on the MMR vaccination scare provoked by his paper by forming a corporation that would profit from "litigation-driven testing".
Wakefield's study and his claim that the MMR vaccine might cause autism led to a decline in vaccination rates in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland, and a corresponding rise in measles and mumps infections, resulting in serious illness and deaths.
His continued claims that the vaccine is harmful have contributed to a climate of distrust of all vaccines and the reemergence of other previously-controlled diseases.
Wakefield has continued to defend his research and conclusions, saying there was no fraud, hoax or profit motive.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Vaxxed
Vaxxed: From Cover- Up to Catastrophe is a 2016 American pseudoscience documentary film alleging a cover- up by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention( CDC) of a purported link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
According to" Variety", the film" purports to investigate the claims of a senior scientist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who revealed that the CDC had allegedly manipulated and destroyed data on an important study about autism and the MMR vaccine"; critics derided Vaxxed as an anti-vaccine propaganda film.
The film was directed by discredited anti-vaccine activist Andrew Wakefield, who was struck off the medical register in the United Kingdom in 2010 due to ethical violations related to his fraudulent research into the role of vaccines in autism.
It was scheduled to premiere at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival but was withdrawn by the festival.
In reviewing the film, Indiewire said that" Wakefield does n't just have a dog in this fight; he is the dog".
In early November 2019," Vaxxed II: The People's Truth", a sequel to Vaxxed, was scheduled for release.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Vasantha Maligai
Vasantha Maligai is a 1972 Indian Tamil- language romance film, directed by K. S. Prakash Rao and produced by D. Ramanaidu.
The film stars Sivaji Ganesan and Vanisri, and is the Tamil remake of the 1971 Telugu film" Prema Nagar".
" Vasantha Maligai" was released on 29 September 1972 and became a major commercial success, running in theatres for nearly 750 days.
A digitally restored version of the film was released on 8 March 2013, and another one on 21 June 2019 and it also completed 100 days.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Jason Moore (director)
Jason Moore( born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Ben Cura
Ben Cura( born 30 September 1988) is a British- Argentine actor and director of film, television and theatre.
K. S. Prakash Rao
Kovelamudi Surya Prakash Rao( 1914–1996) was an Indian film director producer, actor and Cinematographer known for his works in Telugu cinema, Kannada cinema, and few bollywood films.
In 1977 he won the Filmfare Award for Best Director – Kannada for" Ganda Hendthi".
In 1995, Rao received the Raghupathi Venkaiah Award for his contributions to Telugu cinema.

Question: Are director of film Vaxxed and director of film Vasantha Maligai both from the same country?
Answer: no