James O'Brien (filmmaker)
James Edward O'Brien( born December 6, 1969) is an American independent film director, screenwriter and producer.
Ben Cura
Ben Cura( born 30 September 1988) is a British- Argentine actor and 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.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Jason Moore (director)
Jason Moore( born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Black Cobra Woman
Black Cobra Woman( Italian: Eva nera) is an Italian exploitation movie written and directed by Joe D'Amato.
The film starred Jack Palance and Laura Gemser.
Venice Bound
Venice Bound is a 1995 indie film by American filmmaker James O'Brien.
It details the lives of three mysterious, off- beat strangers who meet by chance in Venice Beach and agree to pull a robbery.
It was shot in color Fujifilm with a 16 mm Eclair camera in Venice, California and downtown Los Angeles in March 1994.
" Venice Bound" premiered in 16 mm at the Directors Guild of America in Hollywood in 1995 and then later in 35 mm at the Orpheum in downtown LA.
It made its international premiere at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, where it was championed by Mark Cousins, film critic and curator of the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Cousins selected it for official competition in the Rosebud category of his ’ 95 festival, opening the door to a European festival run, including official competition in such festivals as the Filmfest Hamburg, Leeds International Film Festival, the National Festival for Wales( later the Cardiff Film Festival) and Italy's Mystfest.
" Variety magazine" called O’ Brien a “ talent in the raw ” and said the film" keeps you glued to the screen. ”
Robert Osborne of" The Hollywood Reporter" did a story on the making of the film for his Rambling Reporter column, comparing the film to Robert Rodriguez's" El Mariachi".
Joe D'Amato
Aristide Massaccesi( 15 December 1936 – 23 January 1999), known professionally as Joe D'Amato, was an Italian film producer, director and cinematographer, who worked in many genres( westerns, decamerotici, peplum, war films, swashbuckler, comedy, fantasy, postapocalyptic film, and erotic thriller) but is best known for his horror, erotic and adult films.
D' Amato worked in the 1950s as electric and set photographer, in the 1960s as camera operator, and from 1969 onwards as cinematographer.
Starting in 1972, he directed and co-directed around 200 films under numerous pseudonyms, regularly acting as cinematographer as well.
Starting in the early 1980s, D'Amato produced many of his own and other directors' genre films through the companies he founded or co-founded, the best known being Filmirage.
From 1979 to 1982 and from 1993 to 1999, D'Amato also produced and directed about 120 adult films.
Among his best known erotic films are his five entries into the Black Emanuelle series of films starring Laura Gemser( 1976 – 1978) and his horror/ pornography crossover films" Erotic Nights of the Living Dead" and" Porno Holocaust"( both shot in Santo Domingo in 1979).
In the horror genre, he is above all remembered for his films" Beyond the Darkness"( 1979) and" Antropophagus"( 1980), which have gained cult status, as well as" Absurd"( 1981).

Question: Are director of film Black Cobra Woman and director of film Venice Bound both from the same country?
Answer: no