The Deal (2008 film)
The Deal is a 2008 American satirical comedy film directed by Steven Schachter.
The screenplay by Schachter and William H. Macy is based on the 1991 novel of the same title by Peter Lefcourt.
Macy and Meg Ryan co-star.
The film was shot in Cape Town and other South African locations.
It premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was the opening night attraction at the Sarasota Film Festival.
It also was shown at the Philadelphia Film Festival, the Maui Film Festival, and the Traverse City Film Festival, among others, but never was given a theatrical release in the United States.
It was released on Region 1 DVD on January 20, 2009.
Steven Schachter
Steven Schachter is an American television, theatre, and film director and screenwriter.
Much of Schachter's success stems from projects on which he has collaborated with William H. Macy.
The two co-wrote the cable television movies" The Con"( 1998)," A Slight Case of Murder"( 1999)," Door to Door"( 2002), and" The Wool Cap"( 2004), all of which Schachter directed and in which Macy starred.
He also has directed numerous other made- for- TV movies, including an adaptation of David Mamet's play" The Water Engine", which he had directed at the off- Broadway Public Theater in 1977 and again at the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway the following year.
In 2006 he directed the TV movie" The Mermaid Chair".
Schachter's latest projects also involve Macy.
In May 2007, he completed filming the feature" The Deal", written by and starring Macy, which is scheduled for release in 2008.
The two are collaborating on" Family Man", a pilot for a TNT series in which Macy would portray a model husband and father of three who unbeknownst to his family leads a gang of burglars.
Ian Barry (director)
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Peter Levin
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Sparrows (1916 film)
Sparrows is a 1916 Dutch silent drama film directed by Maurits Binger.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
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Rachel Feldman
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Maurits Binger
Maurits Binger (5 April 1868 – 9 April 1923) was a Dutch film director, producer and screenwriter of the silent era.
He directed 39 films between 1913 and 1922 and is considered one of the pioneers of fictional films in the Netherlands.
Binger's studio and base of operations was in Haarlem, North Holland.
Between 1919 and 1923 he was managing director of Anglo-Hollandia an attempt to break into the larger British market.
There is a film institute in the Netherlands in his name.
He is sometimes referred to as Maurice Binger.

Question: Are director of film The Deal (2008 film) and director of film Sparrows (1916 film) from the same country?
Answer: no