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.
Carmen (1983 film)
Carmen is a 1983 Spanish film adaptation of the novel" Carmen" by Prosper Mérimée, using music from the opera" Carmen" by Georges Bizet.
It was directed and choreographed in the flamenco style by Carlos Saura and María Pagés.
It is the second part of Saura's flamenco trilogy in the 1980s, preceded by" Bodas de sangre" and followed by" El amor brujo".
The film's basic plot line is that the modern dancers re-enact in their personal lives Bizet's tragic love affair, up to its lethal climax.
Emiliano Piedra
Emiliano Piedra Miana( 1931 – August 28, 1991) was a Spanish film producer.
He was married from 1967 until his death to actress Emma Penella.
He produced Orson Welles'" Chimes at Midnight" and Carlos Saura's flamenco trilogy film:" Bodas de sangre( 1981 film) Carmen( 1983 film)" and" El Amor brujo( 1986 film)".
Branko Ištvančić
Branko Ištvančić( born 1967) is a Croatian film director.
Born in Subotica, Ištvančić graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb in 1999.
Since 2003 he has been employed at the Croatian Radiotelevision, working as a director of documentary films, educational programs, and television series and films.
Ištvančić's award- winning documentary" The Cormorant Scarecrow"( 1998) has been described by Croatian film critics as one of the best Croatian documentary films of the 1990s.
His feature film debut," The Ghost in the Swamp", placed 2nd among domestic films in the Croatian box office in 2006.
In 2012, he created a film called" Od zrna do slike"( From Grain to Painting), about the Bunjevci Croatian straw artists, Ana Milodanović and.
The film won the Gold Camera for best documentary at its Los Angeles premiere and in 2013 at the International Festival of Ethnographic Film in Romania, won Grand Prize for Best Film.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Carlos Saura
Carlos Saura Atarés( born 4 January 1932) is a Spanish film director, photographer and writer.
Along with Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar, he is counted among the Spain ’s three most renowned filmmakers.
He has a long and prolific career that spans over half a century.
Several of his films have won many international awards.
Saura began his career in 1955 making documentary shorts.
He quickly gained international prominence when his first feature- length film premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 1960.
Although he started filming as a neorealist, Saura quickly switched to films encoded with metaphors and symbolism in order to get around the Spanish censors.
In 1966, he was thrust into the international spotlight when his film" La Caza" won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
In the following years, he forged an international reputation for his cinematic treatment of emotional and spiritual responses to repressive political conditions.
By the 1970s, Saura was the best known filmmaker working in Spain.
His films employed complex narrative devices and were frequently controversial.
He won Special Jury Awards for" La Prima Angélica"( 1973) and" Cría Cuervos"( 1975) in Cannes; and an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nomination in 1979 for" Mama Cumple 100 Años".
In the 1980s, Saura was in the spotlight for his Flamenco trilogy –" Bodas de SangreCarmen" and" El Amor Brujo," in which he combined dramatic content and flamenco dance forms.
His work continued to be featured in worldwide competitions and earned numerous awards.
He received two nominations for Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, for" Carmen"( 1983) and" Tango"( 1998).
His films are sophisticated expression of time and space fusing reality with fantasy, past with present, and memory with hallucination.
In the last two decades of the 20th century, Saura has concentrated on works uniting music, dance and images.
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
The Cormorant Scarecrow
The Cormorant Scarecrow(" Plašitelj kormorana") is a Croatian documentary film directed by Branko Ištvančić.
It was released in 1998.
The film has received a number of awards and is seen by many as the best Croatian documentary of the 1990s.

Question: Are director of film Carmen (1983 Film) and director of film The Cormorant Scarecrow from the same country?
Answer: no