Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Matilda (1996 film)
Matilda is a 1996 American family comedy fantasy film co-produced and directed by Danny DeVito, and written by Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord.
Based on Roald Dahl's novel of the same name, the film stars Mara Wilson as the title character, DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Embeth Davidtz and Pam Ferris.
The film is about a young genius girl named Matilda Wormwood, who develops psychokinetic abilities and uses them to deal with her disreputable family and Agatha Trunchbull, the ruthless, oppressive and tyrannical principal of Crunchem Hall Elementary School.
Produced by DeVito's Jersey Films and released theatrically in the United States on August 2, 1996 by TriStar Pictures, the film received predominantly positive reviews from critics but was a box office bomb, grossing only$ 33 million in the United States on a$ 36 million budget.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Danny DeVito
Daniel Michael DeVito Jr.( born November 17, 1944) is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter.
He gained prominence for his portrayal of the taxi dispatcher Louie De Palma in the television series" Taxi"( 1978 – 1983), which won him a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award.
He currently plays Frank Reynolds on the FX and FXX sitcom" It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"( 2006 – present).
He is known for his film roles in" One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"( 1975)," Terms of Endearment"( 1983)" Throw Momma from the Train"( 1987)," Twins"( 1988)," The War of the Roses"( 1989)," Batman Returns"( 1992)," Get Shorty"( 1995)," Matilda"( 1996)," Mars Attacks!"( 1996)," L.A. Confidential"( 1997)," Man on the Moon"( 1999)," Wiener- Dog"( 2016), and most recently" Dumbo"( 2019).
He is also known for his voice roles in such films as" Space Jam"( 1996)," Hercules"( 1997), and" The Lorax"( 2012).
DeVito and Michael Shamberg founded Jersey Films.
Soon afterwards, Stacey
Sher became an equal partner.
The production company is known for films such as" Pulp FictionGarden State", and" Freedom Writers".
De Vito also owned Jersey Television, which produced the Comedy Central series" Reno 911!".
DeVito and wife Rhea Perlman starred together in his 1996 film" Matilda", based on Roald Dahl's children's novel.
DeVito was also one of the producers nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture for" Erin Brockovich".
DeVito's short stature is the result of multiple epiphyseal dysplasia( Fairbank's disease), a rare genetic disorder that affects bone growth.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American 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.
Martha Stephens
Martha Stephens( born March 12, 1984) is an American film writer and director.
Her three feature films involve characters yearning for escape, and naturalistically portrayed rural settings.
Stephens was born in West Virginia and raised in eastern Kentucky.
A great- niece of writer Jesse Stuart, Stephens was immersed by her family in the Appalachian storytelling tradition.
She graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, School of Filmmaking, where she concentrated in directing.
Stephens' first two feature films," Passenger Pigeons"( 2010) and" Pilgrim Song"( 2012), premiered at the South by Southwest festival and received several awards.
Her third film," Land Ho!"( 2014), which she co-directed with Aaron Katz, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was purchased for worldwide distribution by Sony Pictures Classics.
At the 30th Independent Spirit Awards," Land Ho!" was given the John Cassavetes Award for best feature film with a budget under$ 500,000.
In June 2018, it was announced Stephens had directed her fourth feature film" To the Stars", with Kara Hayward, Liana Liberato, Malin Åkerman, and Tony Hale starring, from a screenplay by Shannon Bradley- Colleary.
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
Rachel Feldman
Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films.
Passenger Pigeons (film)
Passenger Pigeons is a 2010 mumblecore drama film written and directed by filmmaker Martha Stephens and her feature film debut.

Question: Are director of film Passenger Pigeons (film) and director of film Matilda (1996 film) from the same country?
Answer: yes