They Drive by Night
They Drive by Night is a 1940 film noir directed by Raoul Walsh and starring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, and Humphrey Bogart.
The picture involves a pair of embattled truck drivers and was released in the UK under the title The Road to Frisco.
The film was based on A. I. Bezzerides' 1938 novel" Long Haul", which was later reprinted under the title" They Drive by Night" to capitalize on the success of the film.
Part of the film's plot( that of Ida Lupino's character murdering her husband by carbon monoxide poisoning) was borrowed from another Warner Bros. film," Bordertown"( 1935).
James Curtis (author)
James Curtis( 4 July 1907 – 1977) was a British author who was best known for his novels," They Drive By Night" and" There Ai n't No Justice", both of which were made into feature films.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Raoul Walsh
Raoul A. Walsh( March 11, 1887 December 31, 1980) was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences( AMPAS) and the brother of the silent screen actor George Walsh.
He was known for portraying John Wilkes Booth in the silent classic" The Birth of a Nation"( 1915) and for directing such films as" The Big Trail"( 1930), starring John Wayne," High Sierra"( 1941), starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart; and" White Heat"( 1949), starring James Cagney and Edmond O'Brien.
He directed his last film in 1964.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
They Drive by Night (1938 film)
They Drive by Night is a 1938 British black-and-white crime thriller film directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Emlyn Williams as Shorty, an ex-con, and Ernest Thesiger as Walter Hoover, an ex-schoolmaster.
It was produced by Warner Bros. - First National Productions and based on the novel "They Drive by Night" by James Curtis.
The picture is sometimes confused with the 1940 American film "They Drive by Night" based on the novel "The Long Haul" by A. I. Bezzerides and featuring George Raft and Humphrey Bogart.
Les Petites vacances
Les Petites Vacances is a 2006 French drama film directed by Olivier Peyon.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Olivier Peyon
Olivier Peyon is a French screenwriter and film director, born in L' Haÿ- les- Roses, France, on January 23, 1969.
Olivier Peyon grew up in the suburbs of Paris.
He went to college in Nantes to study Economics then returned to Paris where he began working as a production assistant, notably on films by Idrissa Ouedraogo.
Then he translated English- language films for French distribution, including works by Coen Brothers(" Fargo The Big LebowskiO'BrotherIntolerable Cruelty"), Ken Loach(" The Wind That Shakes the Barley"), Stephen Frears(" High Fidelity The Hi -Lo Country"), Danny Boyle(" TrainspottingShallow GraveA Life Less Ordinary"), Jane Campion(" Portrait of a Lady"), as well as" Four Weddings and a FuneralBeing John MalkovichNotting Hill The Usual Suspects" and the TV series.
He started out with the short film" Promis, juré"( 1996), followed by" Jingle Bells"( 1997), selected for the 54th Venice Film Festival," Claquage après étirements"( 2000), and" À tes amours"( 2001), awarded at New York City, Gardanne, Luchon and La Ciotat.
His first feature film" Les Petites Vacances"( Stolen Holidays), was released in 2007, starring Claude Brasseur and Bernadette Lafont( one of the" Nouvelle Vague"'s muse, in the François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol ’s movies).
He has recently written and directed two documentaries for Empreintes, a famous French documentary series produced by France 5: the first one is a portrait of Elisabeth Badinter, a French author, feminist and professor of Philosophy at the École Polytechnique in Paris, daughter of the late Marcel Bleustein- Blanchet, founder of the Publicis Groupe, and the wife of Robert Badinter, a famous French lawyer, law professor and previous French Minister of Justice.
The second documentary is about Michel Onfray, a contemporary French philosopher who adheres to hedonism, atheism and anarchism, a highly prolific author on philosophy with more than 50 written books translated in 30 countries.
" Comment j'ai détesté les maths
How I Came to Hate Math") is the Peyon's second feature film.
It is an international documentary about the place of Mathematics in today's world.
Produced by Arte and Haut& Court(" Ma Vie en Rose"- Golden Globe Best Foreign Language Film 1997," The Class"- Palme d' Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival), Comment j'ai détesté les maths was released in French theaters in November 2013.
The film was well received by audiences and critics alike, and performed well at the box office.
It was nominated for best documentary at the CESAR 2014( the French equivalent of the Oscars).
The success of the film has continued with its release on DVD along with a specifically edited extra film" En Route for the Fields Medal", a portrait of French mathematician Cédric Villani on his way to receive the 2010 Fields Medal in Hyderabad, India.
" Comment j'ai détesté les maths" was also screened in front of an audience of 2000 at the 2014 ICM( International Congress of Mathematicians) in Seoul.
It won the 2014 d' Alembert Prize, the Golden Owl prize at Bergen International Film Festival, Norway, and the International Science Film Festival World of Knowledge award in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Question: Are both director of film They Drive By Night and director of film Les Petites Vacances from the same country?
Answer: no