The Blue Bird (1940 film)
The Blue Bird is a 1940 B&W and Technicolor American fantasy film directed by Walter Lang.
The screenplay by Walter Bullock was adapted from the 1908 play of the same name by Maurice Maeterlinck.
Intended as 20th Century Fox's answer to MGM's" The Wizard of Oz", which had been released the previous year, it was filmed in Technicolor and tells the story of a disagreeable little girl( played by Shirley Temple) and her search for happiness.
Despite being a box office flop and losing money, the film was later nominated for two Academy Awards.
It is available on both VHS and DVD.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Gerard Barrett (director)
Gerard Barrett is an Irish filmmaker.
He came to prominence when he won the Rising Star Award at the 10th Irish Film& Television Awards for his debut," Pilgrim Hill".
His follow- up" Glassland" starred Jack Reynor as a young man who tries to help his mother( Toni Collette).
In 2015, Barrett filmed" Brain on Fire" based on the book of the same name, starring Chloë Grace Moretz and Charlize Theron in New York City and Canada.
His television mini-series" Smalltown" was screened in Ireland in September 2016.
Barrett attended St Michael's College, Listowel.
A graduate of Tralee IT, where he studied Film, TV and Media.
He was married on 2 January 2016.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Walter Lang
Walter Lang( August 10, 1896 – February 7, 1972) was an American film director.
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
Eddie Collins (actor)
Edward Bernard" Eddie" Collins( January 30, 1883 – September 2, 1940) was an American comedian, actor and singer.
He is best remembered for voicing Dopey in Disney's" Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"( 1937) and for portraying Tylo The Dog in the Shirley Temple film" The Blue Bird"( 1940).
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Pilgrim Hill (film)
Pilgrim Hill is a 2013 Irish rural drama film.
Writer and director Gerard Barrett won the Rising Star Award at the 10th Irish Film& Television Awards.
The film depicts the life of an Irish cattle farmer, living alone with his invalided father in a remote Irish location.
The Irish Times( in a four- star review) wrote:" Barrett's debut feature is a quietly stunning slice of rural naturalism.
A masterful debut."

Question: Do director of film Pilgrim Hill (Film) and director of film The Blue Bird (1940 Film) share the same nationality?
Answer: no