Jay Russell
Jay Russell (born January 10, 1960 in North Little Rock, Arkansas), is an American film director, writer and producer.
He graduated from Columbia University in 1985 with a MFA in screenwriting and directing, having studied with producer Michael Hausman and director Miloš Forman.
His debut film, "End of the Line" (1987), was a Sundance Institute project and was released by Orion Classics.
He has since written projects for Paramount Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and TriStar Pictures and has directed numerous documentaries for PBS, Discovery Channel, Learning Channel, CBS, Fox, USA Network and NBC.
Russell returned to feature film directing with the Warner Bros. family film "My Dog Skip" (2000).
He next directed two Disney features, "Tuck Everlasting" (2002) and "Ladder 49" (2004).
His most recent films include "The Water Horse" (2007) and the Hallmark original film "One Christmas Eve" (2014).
Russell served as a producer on "Whole Lotta Sole" (2011) and the 2015 stage adaptation of the Cornell Woolrich thriller "Rear Window", starring his "End of the Line" and "My Dog Skip" (2000) collaborator Kevin Bacon.
End of the Line (1987 film)
End of the Line is a 1987 drama film directed by Jay Russell.
Leo Pickett and Will Haney, railroad workers in Little Rock, Arkansas, find out the parent company of the Southland railroad is about to close their yard and layoff the employees, switching all future shipments to the air freight business.
In a last- ditch effort to save their jobs, the two men" borrow" a locomotive and drive it from Clifford, Arkansas, to Chicago, Illinois, to make their case to Thomas G. Clinton, the railroad's Chairman of the Board.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Jerichow (film)
Jerichow is a 2008 German drama film written and directed by Christian Petzold.
It is loosely inspired by the American novel" The Postman Always Rings Twice"( 1934) by James M. Cain.
The film was invited into the competition of the 65th Venice Film Festival, as the first film to be shown, and was also nominated for the 2009 German Film Prize in the Best Feature Film and Best Director categories.
The official German premiere was on 8 January 2009.
The American showings were in German with English subtitles.
As the title suggests, the film takes place in the German town of Jerichow.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Christian Petzold (director)
Christian Petzold( born 14 September 1960) is a German film director.
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
Rachel Feldman
Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films.

Question: Are director of film End of the Line (1987 film) and director of film Jerichow (film) from the same country?
Answer: no