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.
Ben Cura
Ben Cura( born 30 September 1988) is a British- Argentine actor and director of film, television and theatre.
Miss Lovely
Miss Lovely is a 2012 Indian drama film directed by Ashim Ahluwalia and set in the criminal depths of Mumbai's C-grade( horror and porn film) industry.
Ahluwalia's debut feature follows the story of the Duggal brothers who produce sleazy sex- horror films in the mid-1980s.
The plot explores the intense and mutually destructive relationship between younger sibling Sonu Duggal, played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and his elder brother, Vicky( Anil George).
Sonu finds himself drawn to a mysterious young woman named Pinky( Niharika Singh) eventually leading to his downfall.
" Miss Lovely" had its cinematic release on 17 January 2014.
The film has received the National Film Award – Special Jury Award( Feature film) and Best Production Design at the 61st National Film Awards.
The stylized form, densely layered narrative, period costumes and production design simultaneously conveys a pulp style and contemporaneous modernity.
Jonathan Romney of Sight& Sound described the film as" A shock to the system – an Indian film like I ’d never seen."
The film constantly switches between genre pieces and is part hard- boiled film noir, part love story, part melodrama and part documentary.
It has been compared to Rainer Werner Fassbinder ’s" The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant", and Wong Kar Wai's" Chungking Express".
Shot on a combination of Kodak Super 16 and 35 mm film in widescreen, central themes of Miss Lovely include repressed sexuality, censorship, the deconstruction of genre, the material nature of celluloid and the extinction of cinema itself.
The film soundtrack also links back to a history of past cinema, particularly the use of rare work of Italian composers Egisto Macchi and Piero Umiliani, who had both scored exploitation films.
The soundtrack also employs film scores by Indian composer Ilaiyaraaja and disco producer Biddu.
Miss Lovely competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
The film has since screened at numerous film festivals including the Toronto International Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Miss Lovely had release of around 300 screens in India on 17 January 2014.
Jason Moore (director)
Jason Moore( born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television.
Good Will Hunting
Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant, and starring Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver, and Stellan Skarsgård.
Written by Affleck and Damon, the film follows 20-year-old South Boston janitor Will Hunting, an unrecognized genius who, as part of a deferred prosecution agreement after assaulting a police officer, becomes a client of a therapist and studies advanced mathematics with a renowned professor.
Through his therapy sessions, Will re-evaluates his relationships with his best friend, his girlfriend, and himself, facing the significant task of confronting his past and thinking about his future.
The film grossed over $225 million during its theatrical run, from a $10 million budget.
It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture, and won two: Best Supporting Actor for Williams and Best Original Screenplay for Affleck and Damon.
In 2014, it was ranked at number 53 in "The Hollywood Reporter"s "100 Favorite Films" list.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Gus Van Sant
Gus Green Van Sant Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American film director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician, and author who has earned acclaim as both an independent and mainstream filmmaker.
His films typically deal with themes of marginalized subcultures, in particular homosexuality; as such, Van Sant is considered one of the most prominent auteurs of the New Queer Cinema movement.
Van Sant's early career was devoted to directing television commercials in the Pacific Northwest.
He made his feature-length cinematic directorial debut with "Mala Noche" (1985).
His second feature "Drugstore Cowboy" (1989) was highly acclaimed, and earned Van Sant screenwriting awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and New York Film Critics Circle and the award for Best Director from the National Society of Film Critics.
His following film, "My Own Private Idaho" (1991), was similarly praised, as was the black comedy "To Die For" (1995), the drama "Good Will Hunting" (1997), and the biographical film "Milk" (2008); for the latter two, Van Sant was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and both films received Best Picture nominations.
In 2003, Van Sant's film about the Columbine High School massacre, "Elephant", won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Van Sant also received the festival's Best Director Award that same year, making him one of only two filmmakers—the other being Joel Coen—to win both accolades at the festival in the same year.
Though most of Van Sant's other films received favourable reviews, such as "Finding Forrester" (2000) and "Paranoid Park" (2007), some of his efforts, such as the art house production "Last Days" (2005) and the environmental drama "Promised Land" (2012), have received more mixed reviews from critics, while his adaptation of Tom Robbins's "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" (1994), his 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho", and "The Sea of Trees" (2015), were critical and commercial failures.
In addition to directing, Van Sant has written the screenplays for several of his earlier works, and is the author of a novel entitled "Pink".
A book of his photography, called "108 Portraits", has also been published, and he has released two musical albums.
He is openly gay and currently lives in Los Feliz, California.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Ashim Ahluwalia
Ashim Ahluwalia( born 1972 in Mumbai, India) is a film director and screenwriter.
He made his directorial debut with the feature- length documentary" John& Jane"( 2005), which had a world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and a European premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, and won him the 2005 National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director.
This was followed by his first narrative feature film" Miss Lovely", premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
which won him India's National Film Award – Special Jury Award( Feature film), and Best Production Design at the 61st National Film Awards.
Working outside the mainstream Bollywood film system, Ashim Ahluwalia is part of a new generation of Indian directors.
His unconventional films blur the lines between documentary and fiction.
His short films have shown at the Tate Modern, the Centre Pompidou and at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Question: Do director of film Miss Lovely and director of film Good Will Hunting have the same nationality?
Answer: no