Vojtěch Jasný
Vojtěch Jasný( 30 November 1925 – 15 November 2019) was a Czech director who came to prominence in the sixties.
He won a Cannes Special Jury Prize for" The Cassandra Cat"( 1963).
He was born in Kelč in Moravia.
An active filmmaker in Czechoslovakia throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he was among many artists and intellectuals who left the country after the USSR- led invasion following the Prague Spring of 1968.
Jasný worked in other European countries for several years including Austria, West Germany and Yugoslavia until relocating to Brooklyn, New York in the early 1980s.
Jasný taught film directing classes at Columbia University for several years( where his compatriot Miloš Forman was also a professor and former Film Division Co- Chair) and taught at School of Visual Arts( SVA) and New York Film Academy( NYFA).
Among others of Jasný's works is" All My Compatriots"( 1968), a story centering on the lives and fates of several rural Czechs as they struggle to adapt and survive under communist rule; a film later banned in Czechoslovakia after the invasion of 1968.
He died in Přerov in November 2019, fifteen days shy of his 94th birthday.
Andrew Ginsburg
Andrew Ginsburg( born October 7, 1979) is an American comedian and actor who has appeared on" The Sopranos" and" All My Children."
He is also a three- time champion bodybuilder.
All My Compatriots
All My Compatriots, also known as" All My Countrymen", is a 1968 Czechoslovak film directed by Vojtěch Jasný.
Considered the" most Czech" of his contemporary filmmakers, Jasný's style was primarily lyricist.
It took nearly 10 years to complete the script and it was his greatest work.
The film was banned and the director went into exile rather than recant.
It was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival where Jasný won the award for Best Director.
Francesca James
Francesca James( born January 23, 1949) is an American actress, writer, singer, composer, director and producer.
She grew up in Michigan where she began her professional career in the theater at the age of sixteen.
After studying theater at Carnegie- Mellon University, she moved to New York City where she worked in theater and, for several years, in daytime dramas including" The Secret StormAs the World TurnsOne Life to Live" and" All My Children"( for which she was awarded a Best Supporting Actress Emmy in 1980).
James made an impression playing the character of Marcy Wade on" One Life to Live" from 1970 to 1972 and was afterward asked to join the cast of" All My Children" as Kitty Shea, a dancer looking for her natural mother.
She initially departed that program around its expansion to a full hour to become a singer.
She later met the show's creator," Agnes Nixon" and expressed an interest to rejoin the show.
Her character, Kitty, had died but Ms. Nixon created the character of Kelly Cole, an addicted nightclub performer who was also Kitty's long- lost twin sister.
She was given a chance to sing and even composed the song" Colored Lights" when another character, Tad Martin, was suffering from addiction.
James was written off" All My Children" in 1980 to pursue a career in directing.
Her directing credits include" All My Children" and" Loving".
She then moved to Los Angeles as a producer, where she worked on" General Hospital Santa Barbara" and" Days of Our Lives".
While she was producing" General Hospital" in 1994- 95, the show was twice awarded the Daytime Emmy as" Outstanding Drama Series."
In 1995, James returned to New York and" All My Children", which earned its second" Outstanding Daytime Drama" with her as producer.
In 1998, James left the" All My Children" production team, but stayed with ABC Daytime in a consulting position and as the head of their writer development program for the next year.
Matt Corboy
Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor.
He has appeared in both films and television series.
Leo Spies
Leo Spies( 4 June 1899 – 1 May 1965) was a Russian- born German composer and conductor active in the musical and theatrical life of Germany, and especially in Berlin.
Leanne Jones
Leanne Jones( born 21 March 1985) is a British actress best known for her role as Tracy Turnblad in the West End production of the musical" Hairspray".
In 2008, she won both the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical and the Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Actress in a Musical and the Critics Circle Award for Best Newcomer.
Jeremy Osbern
Jeremy Osbern is an American director and director of photography.
Ben Cook (actor)
Benjamin Tyler Cook( born December 11, 1997) is an American actor, singer, and dancer.
He has appeared on Broadway in" RagtimeBilly Elliot the Musical"( for which he was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award)," Tuck Everlasting Mean Girls" and" West Side Story".
He has also performed in two Broadway national tours," Billy Elliot the Musical" and" Newsies the Musical", and appeared on television in episodes of" 30 RockHouse of Cards, Veep,", and in the HBO film" Paterno".
He is set to appear in the 2020 film version of" West Side Story".
Air: The Musical
Air: The Musical is an independent feature film directed by Jeremy Osbern and starring Ian Stark, Megan Carter, Granvile O' Neal, Brenda Harvey, Dylan Paul Hilpmann, and Jennifer Coville.
The film received screenings in 2007 and 2008, and was officially released to DVD on 6 April 2010.
" AIR: The Musical" was filmed and produced in Lawrence, Kansas between the years of 2004 and 2008.

Question: Do both films All My Compatriots and Air: The Musical have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no