John Donatich
John Donatich is the Director of Yale University Press.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Birdy (film)
Birdy is a 1984 American drama film based on William Wharton's 1978 novel of the same name.
Directed by Alan Parker, it stars Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage.
Set in 1960s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the film focuses on the friendship between two teenage boys, Birdy (Modine) and Al Columbato (Cage).
The story is presented in flashbacks, with a frame narrative depicting their traumatic experiences upon serving in the Vietnam War.
Parker initially turned down an opportunity to direct, believing that the complex book could not be successfully adapted for a feature film.
The project resurfaced in 1982 when A&M Films, a subsidiary of A&M Records, acquired the film rights and commissioned Sandy Kroopf and Jack Behr to write the screenplay.
Upon reading the script, Parker returned as director, and the film continued development at Tri-Star Pictures.
Principal photography began in May 1984 and concluded in August of that year.
Filming took place on locations in Philadelphia and Santa Clara, California.
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Birdy" is notable for being the first film to be partially shot with the Skycam, a computer-controlled camera system created by Steadicam inventor Garrett Brown.
The score was composed by Peter Gabriel.
"Birdy" opened in limited release on December 12, 1984.
It underperformed at the North American box office, grossing only $1.4 million against a budget of $12 million.
The film received mostly positive reviews, and has an approval rating of 85% at Rotten Tomatoes.
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Birdy" was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the of 1984, and won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury prize at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
Dana Blankstein
Dana Blankstein- Cohen( born March 3, 1981) is the director of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.
She is a film director, and an Israeli culture entrepreneur.
Michael Govan
Michael Govan( born 1963) is the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art since 2006.
Prior to this, Govan worked as the director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York City.
Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
Brian Patrick Kennedy( born 5 November 1961) is an Irish- born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.
He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.
Alan Parker
Sir Alan William Parker (born 14 February 1944) is an English filmmaker.
Parker's early career, beginning in his late teens, was spent as a copywriter and director of television advertisements.
After about ten years of filming adverts, many of which won awards for creativity, he began screenwriting and directing films.
Parker is noted for having a wide range of filmmaking styles and working in differing genres.
He has directed musicals, including "Bugsy Malone" (1976), "Fame" (1980), "Pink Floyd – The Wall" (1982), "The Commitments" (1991) and "Evita" (1996); true-story dramas, including "Midnight Express" (1978), "Mississippi Burning" (1988), "
Come See the Paradise" (1990) and
"Angela's Ashes" (1999); family dramas, including "Shoot the Moon" (1982), and horrors and thrillers including "Angel Heart" (1987) and "The Life of David Gale" (2003).
His films have won nineteen BAFTA awards, ten Golden Globes and six Academy Awards.
Parker was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to the British film industry and knighted in 2002.
He has been active in both British cinema and American cinema, along with being a founding member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain and lecturing at various film schools.
In 2013 he received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the highest honour the British Film Academy can give a filmmaker.
Parker donated his personal archive to the British Film Institute's National Archive in 2015.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
John Farrell (businessman)
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Olav Aaraas
Olav Aaraas( born 10 July 1950) is a Norwegian historian and museum director.
He was born in Fredrikstad.
From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.

Question: What nationality is the director of film Birdy (Film)?
Answer: British