Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Ben Cura
Ben Cura( born 30 September 1988) is a British- Argentine actor and director of film, television and theatre.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Phas Gaye Re Obama
Phas Gaye
Re Obama is a 2010 Bollywood satire film directed by Subhash Kapoor and starring Rajat Kapoor, Neha Dhupia, Sanjay Mishra, Manu Rishi and Amole Gupte in the lead roles.
The music and the background score is composed by Manish.
J. Tipu and lyrics are penned by Shellee and Gopal Tiwari.
The film was released on 3 December 2010.
It was produced by Revel Films and distributed by Warner Bros Pictures.
" Phas Gaye Re Obama" is a comedy set against the backdrop of global recession/ meltdown that originated in the US.
It released to positive reviews and was well appreciated by critics.
The film was remade in Telugu as" Sankarabharanam".
Sankarabharanam (2015 film)
Sankarabharanam is a 2015 Indian Telugu- language crime comedy film written by Kona Venkat and the directorial debut of Uday Nandanavanam.
It is produced by MVV Sathyanarayana under the Banner MVV Cinema.
The music is composed by Praveen Lakkaraju and cinematography is by Sai Sriram and the film editing by Chota K. Prasad.
The film was a remake of 2010 Hindi film" Phas Gaye Re Obama".
Subhash Kapoor
Subhash Kapoor is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter.
He was a political journalist, and later became known for directing satirical comical dramas like" Phas Gaye Re Obama"( 2010)," Jolly LLB"( 2013) and" Jolly LLB 2"( 2017).
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Baavra Mann
Baavra Mann is a documentary film on the Indian filmmaker Sudhir Mishra directed by Jaideep Varma.
Though ostensibly a biographical film, it is equally a portrait of the decline of the Indian creative and intellectual scene as touched by Sudhir Mishra ’s life, especially with regard to Sagar University, the theatre scene in Delhi and the film culture of Mumbai.
The film was begun and completed as a part- time film project through 2010 to 2013.
The film ’s production house was called Saturday Films because the majority of the work used to happen on Saturdays.
In 2013 the film was taken over by Films Division, India, who is the official producer.
The film was completed in 2013 and travelled to festivals in New York Indian Film Festival and DC South Asian Festival – it won the" Best Documentary" award at the latter.
Jaideep Varma
Jaideep Varma is an Indian writer, screenwriter and filmmaker.
He has made 5 feature films –" Hulla"( 2008, fiction)," Leaving Home – the Life& Music of Indian Ocean"( 2010, non-fiction)," Baavra Mann – a Film on Sudhir Mishra& Other Indian Realities"( 2013, non fiction)., I Am Offended!( 2015, non fiction) and Par Ek Din( 2017, non fiction).
The last three films were made part- time, and therefore on a limited scale.
In 2013," Hulla" was included in a book on unsung Mumbai cinema classics over 50 years, a book called" 40 Retakes" by Avijit Ghosh.
" Leaving Home" was the first documentary in the history of Indian cinema to release nationally in theatres.
It also opened the Indian Panorama at the Goa International Film Festival in 2010 and won the National Film Award in 2011.
At the 58th National Film Awards, the documentary went on to win the Award for Best Arts/ Cultural Film.
" Baavra Mann" won the" Best Documentary" award at the Washington DC South Asian Film Festival, 2013.
His third full- length documentary film was on stand- up comedy in India and the larger context of contemporary Indian humour.
The film is called" I Am Offended" and it released free on Youtube in February 2015 and has over 1.5 million views- the only Indian full- length feature online to have these many views.
Before that, he published a novel(" Local") in 2005.
Between 1989 and 2000, he worked in advertising as a copywriter( in agencies like Mudra Communications, Ogilvy& Mather, Everest Saatchi& Saatchi, Nexus Equity and Cornerstone).
He also wrote for various publications primarily on music, most notably for the magazine" Gentleman( magazine)" between 1998 and 2001.
In March 2009, he accidentally created the Impact Index – an alternative statistical system in cricket.
It has gone on to become the most written about alternative statistical system in the history of the game.
From 2010 to 2017, he worked full- time on this.
In early- 2017, he also released a book Numbers Do Lie- 61 Hidden Cricket Facts on behalf of Impact Index( conceived by him) with cricketer and commentator" Aakash Chopra"( published by HarperCollins).
Cricket legend" Greg Chappell" had this to say after reading the book-
This book has started a fascinating conversation that will change the face of the way we look at the game and those who have played it."

Question: Do director of film Baavra Mann and director of film Phas Gaye Re Obama have the same nationality?
Answer: yes