Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
José Luis Garci
José Luis García Muñoz( born 20 January 1944), known professionally as José Luis Garci, is a Spanish director, producer, critic, TV presenter, screenwriter and author.
He earned worldwide acclaim and his country's first Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for" Begin the Beguine"( 1982).
Four of his films, including also" Sesión continua"( 1984)," Asignatura aprobada"( 1987) and" El abuelo"( 1998), have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, more than any other Spanish director.
His films are characterized for his classical style and the underlying sentimentality of their plots.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Mani Ratnam
Gopala Ratnam Subramaniam( born 2 June 1956), commonly known by his screen name Mani Ratnam, is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer who predominantly works in Tamil cinema.
In 2002, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, acknowledging his contributions to film.
Despite being born into a film family, Mani Ratnam did not develop any interest in films when he was young.
Upon completion of his post graduation in management, he started his career as a consultant.
He entered the film industry through the 1983 Kannada film" Pallavi Anu Pallavi".
The failure of his subsequent films would mean that he was left with fewer offers.
However, his fifth directorial outing," Mouna Ragam"( 1986), established him as a leading filmmaker in Tamil cinema.
He followed that with" Nayakan"( 1987).
Mani Ratnam is well known for his" Terrorism trilogy" consisting of" Roja"( 1992)," Bombay"( 1995), and" Dil Se.."( 1998).
He is married to actress Suhasini and has a son with her.
He has won several film awards and nominations including six National Film Awards, six Filmfare Awards South and three Bollywood Filmfare Awards.
Ben Cura
Ben Cura( born 30 September 1988) is a British- Argentine actor and director of film, television and theatre.
Nayakan
Nayakan( also spelt Nayagan) is a 1987 Indian Tamil- language gangster film written and directed by Mani Ratnam.
It stars Kamal Haasan and Saranya in lead roles.
It is loosely based on the real- life Bombay underworld don Varadarajan Mudaliar, and sympathetically depicts the struggle of South Indians living in Bombay( now Mumbai).
The film also stars Saranya Ponvannan in her film debut.
Karthika, Nassar, Janagaraj, Delhi Ganesh and Tinnu Anand play significant roles.
The soundtrack and the background score of the film, composed by Ilaiyaraaja were critically acclaimed and considered by critics as one of his best works to that point.
" Nayakan" was released on 21 October 1987 on the occasion of Diwali and received critical acclaim.
Haasan's performance earned him the National Film Award for Best Actor.
The film also earned the National Awards for Best Cinematography( P. C. Sriram) and Best Art Direction( Thotta Tharani).
The film was India's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1988 at the 60th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.
In 2005, the magazine" TIME" included" Nayakan" in its list of" All- Time 100 Best Films".
The film was also included in" The Moving Arts Film Journal" s list of greatest films of all time.
" Nayagan" was also included in NDTV's list" India's 20 greatest films".
CNN- IBN included the film in its list of" 100 greatest Indian films of all time".
The film was dubbed in Telugu under the title" Nayakudu".
It was also remade in Hindi as" Dayavan" in 1988.
A Hindi dub of the film was released in 1999 as" Velu Nayakan".
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.
La herida luminosa
The Wound of Light is a 1997 Spanish film directed by José Luis Garci and starring Fernando Guillén, Mercedes Sampietro and Julia Gutiérrez Caba.
The plot is based on a novel by Josep María de Sagarra.
It was previously filmed in 1956 in a production directed by Tulio Demicheli
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.

Question: Are both director of film Nayakan and director of film La Herida Luminosa from the same country?
Answer: no