Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
Gilles Carle
Gilles Carle,( July 31, 1928 – November 28, 2009) was a French Canadian director, screenwriter and painter.
Gilles Carle, who was a key figure in the development of a commercial Québec cinema, worked as a graphic artist and writer before he joined the National Film Board of Canada in 1960.
His innovative debut feature," La Vie heureuse de Léopold Z.", tracked the adventures of a snowplough operator during a madcap Christmas Eve.
But after the NFB rejected several of his projects, he began working independently.
In 1971 Carle joined forces with Pierre Lamy to form Les Productions Carle- Lamy, which produced Claude Jutra ’s epic" Kamouraska", Denys Arcand ’s early features and all his early films.
The quirkily paced, proto-feminist" La Vraie Nature de Bernadette" – widely regarded as his best film – and" Le Mort d ’un bûcheron" eventually led to the more mainstream but graceful" Les Plouffe" and the epic love story" Maria Chapdelaine", both classics of Quebec cinema.
In 1972 Carle won the Canadian Film Award for best Director for his" The True Nature of Bernadette".
Carle was born in Maniwaki, Quebec.
His film" 50 ans", celebrating the" 50 years" of the National Film Board of Canada, won the Short Film Palme d' Or at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.
In 1990, he was awarded the Government of Quebec's Prix Albert- Tessier.
In 1997, Carle received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts.
In 1998, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
In 2007, he was made a Grand Officer of the Ordre National du Quebec.
Carle died aged 81 on November 28, 2009 of complications from Parkinson's disease at the hospital in Granby, Quebec.
He is survived by his son and three daughters as well as his companion of 27 years, Chloé Sainte- Marie.
Quebec Premier Jean Charest described him, at his death, as one of Quebec's most influential filmmakers.
E. Mason Hopper
E. Mason Hopper (December 6, 1885 – January 3, 1967) was an American film director of the silent era.
He directed 76 films between 1911 and 1935.
The Great White Way (1924 film)
The Great White Way is a 1924 silent film comedy centered on the sport of boxing.
It was directed by E. Mason Hopper.
It was produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed through Goldwyn Pictures.
It was made with the cooperation of the New York City Fire Department.
The film stars Oscar Shaw and Anita Stewart and is a lost film.
It was remade twelve years later as" Cain and Mabel" with Marion Davies and Clark Gable.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Maria Chapdelaine (1983 film)
Maria Chapdelaine is a Canadian historical drama film, released in 1983.
An adaptation of Louis Hémon's novel" Maria Chapdelaine", the film was directed by Gilles Carle and starred Carole Laure in the title role.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Rachel Feldman
Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films.

Question: Are both director of film The Great White Way (1924 Film) and director of film Maria Chapdelaine (1983 Film) from the same country?
Answer: no