Taylor Hackford
Taylor Edwin Hackford( born December 31, 1944) is an American film director and former president of the Directors Guild of America.
He won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for" Teenage Father"( 1979).
Hackford went on to direct a number of highly regarded feature films, most notably" An Officer and a Gentleman"( 1982) and" Ray"( 2004), the latter of which saw him nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Picture.
Ben Cura
Ben Cura( born 30 September 1988) is a British- Argentine actor and 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.
The Comedian (2016 film)
The Comedian is a 2016 American comedy- drama film directed by Taylor Hackford and written by Lewis Friedman, Richard LaGravenese, Art Linson, and Jeff Ross.
The film stars Robert De Niro, Leslie Mann, Danny DeVito, Edie Falco, Veronica Ferres, Charles Grodin, Cloris Leachman, Patti LuPone, Greer Barnes and Harvey Keitel.
The film had its world premiere at the AFI Fest on November 11, 2016, and was released by Sony Pictures Classics on December 9, 2016.
The film opened to negative reviews from critics.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
The House Behind the Cedars
The House Behind the Cedars is a 1927 silent race film directed, written, produced and distributed by the noted director Oscar Micheaux.
It was loosely adapted from the 1900 novel of the same name by the African-American writer Charles W. Chesnutt, who explored issues of race, class and identity in the post-Civil War South.
No print of the film is known to exist, and it is considered lost.
Micheaux remade the film in 1932 under the title "Veiled Aristocrats".
The Virginia Censorship Board, an arm of white supremacy, at first banned the film from being shown in the state, saying it would threaten race relations.
In 1924, the state had passed the Racial Integrity Act incorporating the one-drop rule into law for the first time.
It classified as black for state record keeping any person with any known African ancestry, regardless of their self-identification or community.
Although Micheaux made some cuts to get the film distributed, he wrote to the board: "There has been but one picture that incited the colored people to riot and that still does.
[T]hat picture is "Birth of a Nation
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Oscar Micheaux
Oscar Devereaux Micheaux( January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an African- American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films.
Although the short- lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, Micheaux is regarded as the first major African- American feature filmmaker, a prominent producer of race film, and has been described as" the most successful African- American filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century".
He produced both silent films and sound films when the industry changed to incorporate speaking actors.
Renée Willett
Renée Willett is an American actress who is known for" The Comedian( 2016), Blind"( 2016) and
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.

Question: Are director of film The House Behind The Cedars and director of film The Comedian (2016 Film) from the same country?
Answer: yes