Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Andrey Petrovich Zvyagintsev( born 6 February 1964) is a Russian film director and screenwriter.
His film" The Return"( 2003) won him a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Following" The Return", Zvyagintsev directed" The Banishment" and" Elena"( 2011).
His film" Leviathan"( 2014) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2014 and won the Best Film award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
His most recent film" Loveless" won the Jury Prize at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and was among the nominees for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards.
He also won the Achievement in Directing award for this film at the 2017 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Rosana Sullivan
Rosana Sullivan is an American director, storyboard artist, writer, and executive producer.
Since 2011 she has worked for Pixar Animation Studios.
She wrote and directed her first animated short film," Kitbull", in 2019.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Rachel Feldman
Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films.
Kitbull
Kitbull is a 2019 American traditionally animated short film directed and written by Rosana Sullivan, produced by Kathryn Hendrickson and Pixar Animation Studios, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
It is the third film in Pixar's" SparkShorts" program, and focuses on a fiercely independent stray kitten and an abused pit bull, who form an unlikely friendship.
The short premiered at El Capitan Theatre on January 18, 2019, before being released on YouTube on February 18, 2019.
The short was also released on Disney+ on November 12, 2019.
Sullivan said that the creation of the short had originated from her enjoyment of viewing cat videos, and Hendrickson stated that the traditional animation had proved to be challenging in the beginning.
Critical reception of the short has been generally positive, with critics praising its story, emotional tone, themes, characterization, and animation.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
The Return (2003 film)
The Return(" Vozvrashcheniye") is a 2003 Russian drama film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev and released internationally in 2004.
It tells the story of two Russian boys whose father suddenly returns home after a 12- year absence.
He takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.
It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival( as well as the award for the best first film).
In a 2016 BBC critics' poll," The Return" was ranked the 80th- greatest film of the 21st century.

Question: Are director of film Kitbull and director of film The Return (2003 film) both from the same country?
Answer: no