Rachel Feldman
Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
Hanro Smitsman
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Signs (film)
Signs is a 2002 American science fiction horror film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and executive produced by Shyamalan, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy and Sam Mercer.
A joint collective effort to commit to the film's production was made by Blinding Edge Pictures and The Kennedy/ Marshall Company.
It was commercially distributed by Touchstone Pictures theatrically, and by Touchstone Home Entertainment in home media format.
Its story focuses on a former Episcopal priest named Graham Hess, played by Mel Gibson, who discovers a series of crop circles in his cornfield.
Hess slowly discovers that the phenomenon is a result of extraterrestrial life.
It also stars Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, and Abigail Breslin.
" Signs" explores the themes of faith, kinship, and extraterrestrials.
Following its premiere in theatres nationwide on August 2, 2002, the film grossed$ 227,966,634 in domestic ticket receipts screening at 3,453 theatres during its widest release.
It earned an additional$ 180,281,283 in business through international release, to top out at a combined$ 408,247,917 in gross revenue.
The film was nominated for multiple awards, including those from the Online Film Critics Society and the Empire Awards.
The film also won an award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
Considering its$ 72 million budget costs, the film was considered a strong financial success after its theatrical run, and was met with positive reviews from critics, with some praising its atmosphere and story but others criticizing aspects of the script.
The high- definition Blu-ray Disc edition of the film featuring the director's audio commentary, the making of the film, and deleted scenes was released in the United States on June 3, 2008.
The original motion picture soundtrack, which was composed by James Newton Howard, was released on the opening day by the Hollywood Records label.
M. Night Shyamalan
Manoj Nelliyattu" M. Night" Shyamalan( born August 6, 1970) is an American filmmaker and actor.
He is known for making films with contemporary supernatural plots and twist endings.
He was born in Mahé, Puducherry, India, and raised in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania.
The cumulative gross of his films exceeds$ 3 billion globally.
He made his directorial debut in 1992 with his first movie" Praying with Anger".
His second movie was the comedy- drama film" Wide Awake"( 1998).
His most well- received films include the supernatural thriller" The Sixth Sense"( 1999), the superhero thriller" Unbreakable"( 2000), the science fiction thriller" Signs"( 2002) and the period- piece thriller" The Village"( 2004).
For" The Sixth Sense", Shyamalan received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Afterward, Shyamalan released a series of poorly received but sometimes financially successful movies, including the dark fantasy" Lady in the Water"( 2006), the eco- thriller" The Happening"( 2008)," The Last Airbender"( 2010)( an adaptation of the animated television series), and the science fiction film" After Earth"( 2013).
Following the financial failure of" After Earth," Shyamalan's career was revived with the release of the found footage horror film" The Visit"( 2015), the psychological thriller" Split"( 2016), and continued with the superhero thriller" Glass"( 2019), with these three made for a combined total of$ 34 million, while earning a combined box office of$ 625 million.
" Glass" is the third and final chapter of his" Unbreakable" film series.
In addition to his directorial work, Shyamalan was a producer for the horror film" Devil"( 2010).
Shyamalan was also called in for an uncredited rewrite for the teen film" She's All That"( 1999) and also served as a writer for the film" Stuart Little"( 1999).
Shyamalan is also known for filming and setting his films in and outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Most of his commercially successful films were co-produced and released by Walt Disney Studios' Touchstone and Hollywood film imprints.
In 2008, Shyamalan was awarded the Padma Shri by the government of India.
Anniversary (1963 film)
Anniversary is a 1963 Canadian short documentary film directed by William Weintraub.
Created to mark the 60th anniversary of the release of the first Canadian narrative drama film," Hiawatha, the Messiah of the Ojibway", in 1903, the film presented an overview of the history of Canadian contributions to cinema, including archival footage of Canadian actors such as Mary Pickford, Marie Dressler, Mack Sennett, Norma Shearer, Fay Wray, Deanna Durbin and Walter Huston.
It was narrated by Walter Pidgeon.
The film won the Canadian Film Award for Best Theatrical Short Film at the 16th Canadian Film Awards in 1964.
William Weintraub
William Weintraub,( February 19, 1926 – November 6, 2017) was a Canadian journalist, author, filmmaker and lecturer, known for his long association with Canada's National Film Board( NFB).
Born and educated in Montreal, Weintraub graduated from McGill University where he had worked on the" McGill Daily".
He began his career as a reporter at" The Montreal Gazette" in the 1950s, later moving to" Weekend" magazine.
His experience in journalism provided the basis for Weintraub's 1961 novel" Why Rock the Boat?" and his 2001 memoir" Getting Started".
Among Weintraub's contemporaries and friends were authors Mordecai Richler, Mavis Gallant, Norman Levine and Brian Moore.
Weintraub's satirical 1979 novel" The Underdogs" provoked controversy by imagining a future socialist republic of Quebec, in which English- speakers were an oppressed minority, complete with a violent resistance movement.
One planned stage version was cancelled before its premiere, but another version was later a hit at the Just For Laughs festival.
In a film career spanning decades, Weintraub was involved with more than 150 NFB productions, serving variously as writer, producer and director.
Productions ranged from" Canada: Beef Cattle" to historical documentaries to a portrait of Canadian writer Margaret Laurence.
His 1993 documentary" The Rise and Fall of English Montreal" dealt with the second large Quebec diaspora that began in the 1960s and accelerated rapidly after the 1976 Quebec election.
The" National Post" wrote that he said that Torontonians should express their gratitude to a major benefactor of the city and erect a very large heroic statue at the head of Bay Street of former Premier of Quebec René Lévesque.
Weintraub published four books after his seventieth birthday including" City Unique"( 1996), an exploration of English Montreal in the 1940s and 1950s, which received the QSPELL Prize for Non-Fiction from the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards.
In 2003, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.

Question: Are both director of film Signs (Film) and director of film Anniversary (1963 Film) from the same country?
Answer: no