Eva Orner
Eva Orner is an Australian Academy and Emmy Award- winning film producer and director based in Los Angeles.
Her works include" Untold Desires"( winner of Best Documentary at the Australian Film Institute Awards, the Logie Awards and the Australian Human Rights Awards)," Strange Fits of Passion"( nominated for the Critics' Award at the Cannes Film Festival)," Taxi to the Dark Side"( winner of the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary), and" Gonzo, The Life and Work of Dr Hunter S. Thompson.
" Orner's directorial debut," The Network", a feature documentary set behind the scenes of Afghanistan's largest television station, premiered in the US in March 2013.
Orner grew up in Melbourne, Australia and was educated at Mt Scopus Memorial College and Monash University, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1993.
Orner, along with actress Cate Blanchett, was one of only two Australians nominated for an Oscar in 2008.
Most commentators predicted that Michael Moore's" Sicko" would win the Best Documentary category.
However, to the surprise of many, Orner's" Taxi to the Dark Side", which examines US torture practices in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, received the award.
Within hours, Orner created controversy by describing the US Government as" a bunch of war criminals".
In 2016, she released" Chasing Asylum", concerning Australia's treatment of asylum seekers.
Divine Trash
Divine Trash is a 1998 documentary film directed by Steve Yeager about the life and work of John Waters.
Alex Gibney
Philip Alexander Gibney( born October 23, 1953) is an American documentary film director and producer.
In 2010," Esquire" magazine said Gibney" is becoming the most important documentarian of our time".
His works as director include" Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief"( winner of three Emmys in 2015),,( the winner of three 2013 primetime Emmy awards),( nominated in 2005 for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature);( short- listed in 2011 for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature);" Casino Jack and the United States of Money"; and" Taxi to the Dark Side"( winner of the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature), focusing on a taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed at Bagram Air Force Base in 2002.
In 2019 he released his newest documentary Citizen K, about Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian billionaire exile Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan is a 2011 documentary film on the life and work of Ray Harryhausen.
Todd Rohal
Todd Rohal is an American independent filmmaker.
Don't Blink – Robert Frank
Do n't Blink – Robert Frank is a 2015 documentary film about the life and work of photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank.
The Guatemalan Handshake
The Guatemalan Handshake is a 2006 comedy- drama film, written and directed by Todd Rohal.
It is Rohal's feature film debut.
The film premiered at the 2006 Slamdance Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize.
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson is a 2008 documentary film directed by Alex Gibney.
It details Hunter S. Thompson's landmark writings on music and politics.
Friends and family( including Tom Wolfe and Ralph Steadman) provide interviews to help describe the mythos of Hunter and his life.
The film premiered on January 20 in the Documentary Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, released in theaters in the U.S. on July 4, 2008, and on DVD on November 18, 2008.
Carlos Figueroa (footballer)
He is also a member of the Guatemalan national team.
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film is a 2006 documentary about writer Hunter S. Thompson directed by Tom Thurman.

Question: Do both films, Gonzo: The Life And Work Of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson and The Guatemalan Handshake, have the directors who are from the same country?
Answer: yes