Liberty Heights
Liberty Heights is a 1999 American comedy- drama film by writer- director Barry Levinson.
The film is a semi-autobiographical account of his childhood growing up in Baltimore in the 1950s.
It is the fourth of Levinson's tetralogy" Baltimore Films", set in his hometown during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s:" Diner"( 1982)," Tin Men"( 1987)," Avalon"( 1990), and" Liberty Heights"( 1999).
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American 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.
Jason Moore (director)
Jason Moore( born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson( born April 6, 1942) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor.
Levinson's best- known works are mid-budget comedy- drama and drama films such as" Diner"( 1982);" The Natural"( 1984);" Good Morning, Vietnam"( 1987);" Bugsy"( 1991); and" Wag the Dog"( 1997).
He won the Academy Award for Best Director for" Rain Man"( 1988), which also won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Ben Cura
Ben Cura( born 30 September 1988) is a British- Argentine actor and director of film, television and theatre.
The World of Apu
The World of Apu(" Apura sansāraApur Sansar") is a 1959 Indian Bengali drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray.
It is the third part of" The Apu Trilogy", about the childhood and early adulthood of a young Bengali named Apu in the early twentieth century Indian subcontinent.
( The first two parts of the trilogy are" Pather Panchali" and" Aparajito".)
The film is based on the last two- thirds of the 1932 Bengali novel," Aparajito", by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay.
Released in 1959," The World of Apu" focuses on Apu's adult life, and also introduces the actors Soumitra Chatterjee and Sharmila Tagore, who would go on to appear in many subsequent Ray films.
The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film and several international awards, including the Sutherland Award for Best Original And Imaginative Film and National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
" The World of Apu" has been influential across the world and is frequently listed among the greatest films of all time.
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray( 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, music composer, graphic artist, lyricist and author, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.
Ray was born in Calcutta into a Bengali family which was prominent in the field of arts and literature.
Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film" Bicycle Thieves"( 1948) during a visit to London.
Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts.
He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, music composer, graphic designer and film critic.
He authored several short stories and novels, meant primarily for young children and teenagers.
Feluda, the sleuth, and Professor Shonku, the scientist in his science fiction stories, are popular fictional characters created by him.
He was awarded an honorary degree by Oxford University.
Ray's first film," Pather Panchali"( 1955), won eleven international prizes, including the inaugural Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
This film, along with" Aparajito"( 1956) and" Apur Sansar The World of Apu")( 1959), form" The Apu Trilogy".
Ray did the scripting, casting, scoring, and editing, and designed his own credit titles and publicity material.
Ray received many major awards in his career, including 32 Indian National Film Awards, a Golden Lion, a Golden Bear, 2 Silver Bears, a number of additional awards at international film festivals and award ceremonies, and an Academy Honorary Award in 1992.
The Government of India honored him with the Bharat Ratna, its highest civilian award, in 1992.
Ray had received many noticeable awards and gained a prestigious position over his life time.
In 2004, Ray was ranked number 13 in BBC's poll of the Greatest Bengali of all time.

Question: Do director of film Liberty Heights and director of film The World Of Apu have the same nationality?
Answer: no