Charles K. Gifford
Charles K. Gifford is an American banker and businessman.
He is the chairman emeritus of Bank of America having served on its board of directors from 2004 to 2016.
The Conversation
The Conversation is a 1974 American mystery thriller film written, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman with supporting roles by John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest, Harrison Ford, Teri Garr and Robert Duvall.
The plot revolves around a surveillance expert and the moral dilemma he faces when his recordings reveal a potential murder.
Coppola cited the 1966 film" Blowup" as a key influence.
However, since the film was released to theaters just a few months before Richard Nixon resigned as President, he felt that audiences interpreted the film to be a reaction to the Watergate scandal.
" The Conversation" has won critical acclaim and multiple accolades, including the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, the highest honor at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival.
It was nominated for three Academy Awards in 1974 and lost Best Picture to" The Godfather Part II", another Francis Ford Coppola film.
In 1995, it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
T. Prakash Rao
Tatineni Prakash Rao( 24 November 1924 – 1 July 1992) was an Indian filmmaker.
He made a number films in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi languages.
His first film was Palletooru( 1952).
He was assistant director in Shavukar and later directed Pitchi Pullaiah, Jayam Manade starring N. T. Rama Rao.
He worked with both N.T. Rama Rao and Akkineni Nageswara Rao in films Charana Dasi and Parivartana( 1954).
His Hindi films like Suraj and Izzat remain popular.
His Tamil film with M. G. Ramachandran was Padagotti which is considered as classic.
He directed Gemini Ganesan in Nalla Theerpu, Ellorum Innattu Mannar and Kathirundha Kangal.
He was born in Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, India.
He was first attracted towards Communist movement and was part of Praja Natya Mandali.
Later he moved to Madras to join film industry like many others who did not the like the turn of events in the communist movement.
He started his career as an assistant to L. V. Prasad, another famous film maker.
He also worked with K. V. Reddy for some time.
His son TLV Prasad entered into Limca Book of World Records for his ability in churning out movies continuously.
His grandson Tatineni Satya also entered into film industry with the film Bheemili Kabaddi Jattu.
Andrew Jaspan
Andrew Jaspan,( born 20 April 1952) is a British- Australian journalist, the co-founder of" The Conversation", an independent not- for-profit website of analysis and news from the university and research sector and its Editor- in- Chief from The Conversation's launch in March 2011 until March 2017.
The Conversation was established in response to what Jaspan describes as “ increasing market failure in delivering trusted content. ”
In May 2013, The Conversation expanded with a launch into the UK, into the US in 2014, into Africa and France in 2015, into Canada, Indonesia, New Zealand and Spain in 2017.
Jaspan resigned from" The Conversation" in March 2017.
In April 2017, Jaspan began work on developing The Global Academy, based at RMIT University with the support of Melbourne, Deakin, Western Sydney and RMIT universities.
Shameem Akhtar
Shameem Akhtar is a Bangladeshi director and screenwriter.
She has made two films" The Conversation"( 1991) and" Rina Brown"( 2017).
Veronika Meduna
Veronika Meduna is a science journalist and broadcaster who was the founding New Zealand editor of" The Conversation".
Abdallah Albert
Abdallah Albert is a South Sudanese politician.
He is the current Minister for Wildlife Conversation and Tourism in the Cabinet of South Sudan.
He was appointed to that position on 10 July 2011.
Robert Stone (director)
Robert Stone is a British- American documentary filmmaker.
His work has been screened at dozens of film festivals and televised around the world, notably seven of his films have appeared on PBS's" American Experience" series and four of his films have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival( including Closing Night Film in 2009).
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola( born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, film composer, and vintner.
He was a central figure in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
He is widely considered to be one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.
After directing" The Rain People" in 1969, Coppola co-wrote" Patton"( 1970), earning the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay along with Edmund H. North.
Coppola's reputation as a filmmaker was cemented with the release of" The Godfather"( 1972).
The film revolutionized movie- making in the gangster genre, and was adored by the public and critics alike.
" The Godfather" won three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay( shared with Mario Puzo).
" The Godfather Part II", which followed in 1974, became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Highly regarded by critics, the film brought Coppola three more Academy Awards:
Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture, and made him the second director( after Billy Wilder) to be so honored three times for the same film.
" The Conversation", which Coppola directed, produced and wrote, was released that same year, winning the Palme d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
His next film," Apocalypse Now"( 1979), which notoriously had a lengthy and strenuous production, was widely acclaimed for its vivid depiction of the Vietnam War.
The film won the Palme d' Or, making Coppola one of only eight filmmakers to have won that award twice.
While a number of Coppola's ventures in the 1980s and 1990s were critically lauded, he has never quite achieved the same commercial success with films as in the 1970s.
His best- known films released since the start of the 1980s are the dramas" The Outsiders" and" Rumble Fish"( both 1983), the crime dramas" The Cotton Club"( 1984) and" The Godfather Part III"( 1990), and the horror film" Bram Stoker's Dracula"( 1992).
A number of Coppola's relatives and children have become famous actors and filmmakers in their own right: his sister is the actress Talia Shire; his daughter Sofia Coppola and granddaughter Gia Coppola are directors, and the actors Jason Schwartzman and Nicolas Cage are his nephews.
Rivaaj
Rivaaj is a 1972 Bollywood drama film directed by Tatineni Prakash Rao, and produced by K. C. Bokadia.
The film stars Sanjeev Kumar, Farida Jalal and Mala Sinha.

Question: Do both The Conversation and Rivaaj films have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no