Venomous (film)
Venomous is a 2001 disaster horror film directed by Fred Olen Ray, credited as Ed Raymond, and starring Treat Williams, Mary Page Keller and Hannes Jaenicke.
Matt Corboy
Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor.
He has appeared in both films and television series.
Patricia Rozema
Patricia Rozema( born August 20, 1958) is a Canadian film director, writer and producer.
She was part of a loosely- affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in 1980s from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave.
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing is a 1987 comedy- drama film directed by Patricia Rozema and starring Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon, and Ann- Marie MacDonald.
The title is taken from" The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Ann- Marie MacDonald( born October 29, 1958) is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actress and broadcast host who lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The daughter of a member of Canada's military, she was born at an air force base near Baden- Baden, West Germany.
She is of Lebanese descent through her mother.
MacDonald won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for her first novel," Fall on Your Knees", which was selected as a" pick" for Oprah Winfrey's Book Club.
She received the Governor General's Award for Drama, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award and the Canadian Authors Association Drama Award for her play," Goodnight Desdemona".
MacDonald hosted the CBC documentary series" Life and Times" for seven seasons and CBC's flagship documentary program," Doc Zone" for eight.
She appeared in the films" I've Heard the Mermaids Singing" and" Better Than Chocolate", among others.
Her 2003 novel," The Way the Crow Flies", was partly inspired by the Steven Truscott case.
Her novel" Adult Onset" was released in 2014 and is so far translated into five languages.
She was the inaugural Mordecai Richler Reading Room Writer in Residence at Concordia University, and she coaches students in the Acting and Playwriting Programs at the National Theatre School of Canada.
In December 2018, MacDonald was named as an Officer of the Order of Canada, in recognition of" her multi-faceted contributions to the arts in Canada and for her advocacy of LGBTQ+ and women's rights".
MacDonald is married to playwright and theatre director Alisa Palmer.
Fred Olen Ray
Fred Olen Ray( born September 10, 1954) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter of more than 150 low- to- medium budget feature films in many genres, including horror, science fiction, action/ adventure, crime dramas, and holiday films.
Ray is the head of Retromedia, which releases DVDs of both his own productions and archival films.
He has also worked for other well- known independent studios and on a few occasions for major Hollywood studios.
He is also cited as an inspiration for many independent film- makers.
He loaned a 16 mm camera to Quentin Tarantino so he could make" My Best Friend's Birthday".
Aside from his work in the film industry, Ray was also a professional wrestler.
His wrestling name was" Fabulous Freddie Valentine".
Alexandra Raffé
Alexandra Raffé is a Canadian film and television producer.
Among her projects are the films" Zero Patience" and" I've Heard the Mermaids Singing", for which she was nominated for a Genie Award in 1987 for Best Picture.
Paule Baillargeon
Paule Baillargeon( born July 19, 1945 in Rouyn- Noranda, Quebec) is a Canadian actress and film director.
She won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film" I've Heard the Mermaids Singing", and was a nominee for Best Director for" The Sex of the Stars( Le Sexe des étoiles)".
Her film roles have included" August 32nd on Earth( Un 32 août sur terre) Jesus of Montreal( Jésus de Montréal) A Woman in Transit( La Femme de l'hôtel) Réjeanne Padovani" and" Days of Darkness( L' Âge des ténèbres)".
Baillargeon received a classical education at the Ursuline Convent in Quebec City and at the École Sophie- Barat in Montreal.
She left the National Theatre School of Canada in 1969 without graduating and, along with Raymond Cloutier and others, founded the experimental theatre group Le Grand Cirque Ordinaire.
For several years she participated in writing and performing in its collective creations, which had a marked effect on the theatre of Quebec during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
" Le Grand Film ordinaire: ou Jeanne D’ Arc n’est pas morte, se porte bien, et vit au Québéc", released in 1971, is a documentary based on its first performance piece.
Although the collective disbanded after its second film," Montréal Blues", Baillargeon ’s key 1980 film co-directed with Frédérique Collin," La Cuisine rouge", adapted Le Grand Cirque ’s Brechtian style to a fractured narrative about sexual stereotyping.
In 2002, she directed an NFB documentary about her friend, Claude Jutra.
In 2009, Baillargeon was appointed as a filmmaker in residence by the National Film Board of Canada( NFB).
In 2011, the NFB released her autobiographical work" Trente tableaux", an anthology film composed of 30 filmic portraits of her 66 years of life to date, including her experiences as a woman in Quebec's changing society.
She has received Quebec's two highest film honours: the Prix Albert- Tessier in 2009 and the 2012 Jutra Award for lifetime achievement.
Jack Shea (director)
Jack Shea (August 1, 1928 – April 28, 2013) was an American film and television director.
He was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1997 to 2002.
Douglas Koch
Douglas Koch is a Canadian cinematographer who has won honours at the Canadian Screen Awards and Canadian Music Video Awards.
Koch is from Vancouver and studied film at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute in Toronto, finishing in 1983.
He went on to shoot music videos for artists such as Anne Murray and Sarah McLachlan, winning a cinematography award at the Canadian Music Video Awards in 1994 for" And if Venice Is Sinking".
He was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Cinematography for" I've Heard the Mermaids Singing"( 1987) and" Last Night"( 1998), as well as for the Canadian Society of Cinematographers Award for Best Cinematography in a Theatrical Feature for" Last Night".
In 2015, he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Photography in a Comedy Program or Series for HBO Canada and Bell Media's episode" The Three Sisters" in the TV series" Sensitive Skin".

Question: Do both films: Venomous (Film) and I'Ve Heard The Mermaids Singing have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no