The North Star (2016 film)
The North Star is a 2016 film about slavery and the underground railroad.
Jakob Stoustrup
Jakob Stoustrup is a Danish scientist employed at Aalborg University, Denmark, where he acts as a professor in the area of control theory and a Vice Dean with responsibility for education and for energy research.
He has an extensive publication record in the areas of robust control and fault- tolerant control, and in a long range of applications of control theory.
Breath (2016 film)
Breath( Nafas) is a 2016 Iranian film directed by Narges Abyar.
It was selected as the Iranian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control is a 1997 film by documentary filmmaker Errol Morris.
It profiles four subjects with extraordinary careers: Dave Hoover, who is a lion tamer; George Mendonça, who created topiaries at Green Animals Topiary Garden in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, including giraffes made out of boxwood; Ray Mendez, a hairless mole-rats expert; and Rodney Brooks, an M.I.T. scientist who has designed bug-like robots.
The film's musical score is by composer Caleb Sampson, and is performed by the Alloy Orchestra.
It is characterized as circus-like, sometimes frenzied or haunting, and features percussion (particularly mallets and xylophones) to give it a metallic, technological or futuristic flavor.
In "Fast, Cheap & Out of Control", Morris uses a camera technique he invented which allows the interview subject to face the interviewer directly while also looking directly into the camera, seemingly making eye contact with the audience.
The invention is called the Interrotron.
His four subjects narrate the film in their own words.
The cinematographer, Robert Richardson, uses many of the same camera techniques he used in his other films, "JFK" and "Natural Born Killers".
In addition to 35 mm cameras, he also uses Super 8 mm film.
The film is extensively cut with scenes from older films and television shows.
The film also uses footage from other sources, such as movie clips, documentary footage, and cartoons.
Hoover's idol Clyde Beatty appears from portions of his film "Darkest Africa" and a malicious robot appears in scenes from "Zombies of the Stratosphere".
After using the first moments in the film to establish his characters one by one, with film clips that correspond to each subject, Morris then begins to mix footage relating to one subject with the narration of another, in order to correlate the themes which the four subjects have in common.
The title of the film is a play on the old engineer's adage that out of "fast,cheap," and "reliable," you can only produce an end consumer product that is two of those three (the classic example is a car).
Rodney Brooks, the robot scientist from MIT, wrote a paper in which he speculates that it might be more effective to send one hundred one-kilogram robots into space, instead of a single hundred-kilogram robot, replacing the need for reliability with chance and sheer numbers, as systems in nature have learned to do.
The advantage would be that if a single robot malfunctioned or got destroyed, there would still be plenty of other working robots to do the exploring.
The paper was fully titled "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control: A Robot Invasion of the Solar System", and published in the "Journal of the British Interplanetary Society" in 1989.
The film is available on VHS, DVD; the soundtrack by Caleb Sampson is available on CD.
Errol Morris
Errol Mark Morris( born February 5, 1948) is an American film director primarily of documentaries examining and investigating, among other things, authorities and eccentrics.
His 1988 documentary" The Thin Blue Line" is cited among the best and most influential documentaries ever made.
In 2003, his documentary film" The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara" won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.
Rodney Brooks
Rodney Allen Brooks( born 30 December 1954) is an Australian roboticist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, author, and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularizing the actionist approach to robotics.
He was a Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
He is a founder and former Chief Technical Officer of iRobot and co- Founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Rethink Robotics( formerly Heartland Robotics).
Outside the scientific community Brooks is also known for his appearance in a film featuring him and his work," Fast, Cheap& Out of Control".
Jean Newman
Jean Dorothy Newman( 1905 in Née Reading – October 4, 1971) was a municipal politician in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
She was the vice- chairman of the board of Control and president of the City Council.
She was the first woman elected to Toronto ’s Board of Control and the first woman to run for Mayor of Toronto.
Narges Abyar
Narges Abyar( born 8 August 1970 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian film director, author and screenwriter, best known for directing" Track 143 Breath", and" When the Moon Was Full".
The film Track 143 is adapted from Abyar's novel titled" The Third Eye" narrating the story of a woman and her son during the time of war.
Her films sensitively picture the sufferings of women and children caused by the society, war or radicalism.
Narges Abyar graduated in Persian literature; she started writing books in 1997.
So far, she has written more than thirty story and fiction books for children, young adults and adults.
Mariusz Malinowski
Mariusz Malinowski is a Polish electrical engineer.
Professor in the Institute of Control and Industrial Electronics at Warsaw University of Technology.
Autohead
Autohead is a 2016 film directed by Rohit Mittal.

Question: Do both Breath (2016 film) and Fast, Cheap & Out of Control films have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no