Big Sur (disambiguation)
Big Sur is a region of the Central California coast.
Big Sur may also refer to:
Deetjen's Big Sur Inn
Deetjen's Big Sur Inn is one of the oldest hotels in Big Sur.
Celebration at Big Sur
Celebration at Big Sur( also known simply as Celebration) is a film of the 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival in Big Sur, California, featuring Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and others.
Released in 1971, the film was directed by Baird Bryant and Johanna Demetrakas.
A young Gary Weis was among the cinematographers; other members of the camera and sound crew also went on to become famous in their fields, including Peter Smokler, Peter Pilafian, and Joan Churchill.
The film was released in 2011 as a Region 1 DVD.
The festival, one in an annual series of concerts held on the grounds of the Esalen Institute in Big Sur from 1964 to 1971, was held on the weekend of September 13 – 14, 1969, only one month after the famous and considerably larger Woodstock Music& Art Fair, which is referred to repeatedly.
" Celebration at Big Sur" did not receive the same critical acclaim as the 1970" Woodstock" film.
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch is a memoir written by Henry Miller, first published in 1957, about his life in Big Sur, California, where he resided for 18 years.
Jonathon Lee
Jonathon Lee( September 3, 1953 – October 3, 2004) was an American pianist known for playing in California at such locations as Big Sur, Carmel, the Highlands Inn at Carmel Highlands, and the Big Sur International Marathon.
His music has been called" a fresh blend of original compositions, contemporary, classical, popular, and ... universal in its appeal."
It has been sold at the Pebble Beach golf resort( Pebble Beach Golf Links) and marketed in Asia.
Lee was the" Grand Piano Man" of the Big Sur International Marathon for 17 years.
T.S. Nowlin
T.S. Nowlin is an American screenwriter best known for writing" The Maze Runner".
Baird Bryant
Wenzell Baird Bryant was an American filmmaker, b.( Columbus, Indiana, December 12, 1927 – d. Hemet, California, November 13, 2008).
Baird Bryant, as he was known, was well known in documentary circles for his hand- held ability to almost instantaneously capture live action as it was happening.
Hired as the cameraman on the Albert Maysles film of the Rolling Stones" Gimme Shelter", Baird caught on- camera the fatal stabbing of concertgoer Meredith Hunter by Hells Angel Alan Passaro at the Altamont Free Concert in December 1969.
As a cinematographer, Bryant also worked on" Easy Rider"( 1969), filming the famous LSD scene with Dennis Hopper in a New Orleans cemetery.
He also shot footage for the Academy Award- winning film, Broken Rainbow( 1985).
Baird began his filmmaking career in the early sixties shooting The Seducers( 1962), The Greenwich Village Story( 1963), The Cool World( 1963) and many others.
Later he also shot Celebration at Big Sur( 1971), Heart of Tibet( 1991) adding to his long filmmaking résumé.
Never one to rest on his laurels, Baird worked in numerous capacities on both documentaries and features from to doing production sound to writing to producing.
In the 1950s Baird lived in Paris and was a writer, living with William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac'.
Bryant wrote ‘ Play This Love With Me"( 1955).
He also wrote the first translation of Pauline Réage's erotic novel" Story of O".
In 1973 Baird spent the summer teaching film- making at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
He was co-producing, with Wendy Girard, and shooting a documentary on environmental solutions when he died.
He attended Deep Springs College in Big Pine, California, and graduated from Harvard University.
He was fluent in French and was a life- long practicing Tibetan Buddhist.
Katutu, the Blind
Katutu, the Blind is a 1953 film.
The Maze (1953 film)
The Maze is a 1953 3- D horror film, starring Richard Carlson, Veronica Hurst and Hillary Brooke.
It was directed by William Cameron Menzies and distributed by Allied Artists Pictures.
This was to be the second 3- D film designed and directed by William Cameron Menzies, who was known as a director with a very" dimensional" style( e.g. many shots are focused in layers).
This was his final film as production designer and director.
William Cameron Menzies
William Cameron Menzies( July 29, 1896 – March 5, 1957) was an American film production designer( a job title he invented) and art director as well as a film director and producer during a career spanning five decades.
He earned acclaim for his work in silent film, and later pioneered the use of color in film for dramatic effect.

Question: Are the directors of films Celebration At Big Sur and The Maze (1953 Film) both from the same country?
Answer: yes