Nicolai Fuglsig
Nicolai Fuglsig is a Danish film director and photojournalist.
He graduated from the Danish School of Journalism.
In 1999, his book on an untold nuclear disaster( Techa River pollution by the Mayak plutonium production site) won the ICP Infinity Award in New York City and the World Press Photo First Prize, as well as the Kodak prize for Best Photographer Under 30.
While on assignment as a photographer in the Kosovo War, Fuglsig learned directing as he recorded footage that eventually became a 15- minute documentary," Return of the Exiled".
The film was shown on Danish national television and was screened in Danish cinemas.
Today, in addition to his commercial career, Fuglsig has a number of high concept movie projects in various stages of production, backed by major studios and independent financiers.
Fuglsig won the Gold Lion in the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in June 2006, and the Grand Prix at the Midsummer Awards in London in July 2006, for his work on a Sony Bravia commercial featuring 250,000 bouncing balls let loose on the largest hill in San Francisco( Filbert and Leavenworth).
He made his American feature film debut in 2018 with" 12 Strong".
The Knights of the Quest
The Knights of the Quest( Italian: I Cavalieri che fecero l'impresa) is a 2001 Italian film directed by Pupi Avati starring Edward Furlong, Raoul Bova and Thomas Kretschmann.
Timothy Galvin
Timothy Galvin( August 7, 1894- January 27, 1993) was a lawyer and Deputy Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus.
Richard Shelley (Grand Prior)
Richard Shelley( 1513?–1589?) was a diplomat and the last Grand Prior of the Knights of Saint John in England.
Justus H. Rathbone
Justus Henry Rathbone( October 29, 1839 in Deerfield, New York – December 9, 1889 in Lima, Ohio) was the founder of the international fraternal order of the Knights of Pythias.
He graduated from Colgate University and attended Carlisle Seminary.
He was a music composer and actor.
In 1863 he moved to Washington D.C. as a government clerk in the United States Treasury Department, where he founded the Knights of Pythias on February 19, 1864.
Rathbone wrote the ritual for the Knights of Pythias which is based on the mythological friendship of Damon and Pythias, while he was a school teacher at the Eagle Harbor Schoolhouse, in Eagle Harbor, Michigan.
Phillippe de Longvilliers de Poincy
Phillippe de Longvilliers de Poincy (1584–1660) was a French nobleman and Bailiff Grand Cross of the Knights of Malta.
He governed the island of Saint Christopher from 1639 to his death in 1660, first under the Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique and later under the Knights of Malta themselves.
Poincy was the key figure in the Hospitaller colonization of the Americas.
On 12 January 1638 Poincy set sail for the Caribbean on board "La Petite Europe" On February 20 he took up his commission as Lieutenant Governor of the Isles of America and Captain general of the French at St Kitts.
He arrived wearing the regalia of the Knights of St John of Malta and soon dispensed with the authority of the French king, declaring "The people of St Kitts will have no other Governor than Poincy and will take no orders from the King of France."
In 1639 he reached an agreement with the English on St Kitts that neither nation should grow tobacco.
for one and a half years.
Poincy instructed one of his followers, the Huguenot Levasseur with sixty buccaneers, to drive the English out of Tortuga.
Levasseur was successful, and on 6 November 1640 a treaty was drawn up between Poincy and Levasseur which allowed religious toleration and trade between the two islands.
By 1642 Poincy started building the Château de la Montagne on his estate called La Fontaine.
This was an elaborate building, credited as being one of the grandest ever constructed in the Americas, though today it is in ruins.
The grounds of La Fontaine were also heavily planted with exotic tropical plants.
The Poinciana (Caesalpinia pulcherrima) was named in his honor, the name later becoming secondarily associated with the Royal Poinciana (Delonix regia).
He had a Town Hall erected in Basseterre in what is now known as Church Street.
This served as his administrative centre, where he dispensed justice and administered the colony.
On 26 December 1644, the French king sent Noël Patrocle de Thoisy to relieve him, Poincy refused to allow him to land.
Eventually, Thoissy was sent back to France in chains.
The Capuchins were also expelled at this time, for taking the side of Thoissy.
The Jesuits were invited in to take their place.
Poincy bought the nearby island of St Croix, which he bequeathed to the Knights of St John of Malta.
In 1648 he first seized the island of St Bartholomew, populated by 170 Europeans and fifty
enslaved Africans.
Then he sent his nephew, Robert de Lonvilliers, with 300 men to take over the French half of Saint Martin.
This was ratified at the Treaty of Concordia.
In 1650 he heard that the Spanish had evacuated St Croix, so he sent Vaugelan with two ships and one hundred and sixty men to capture it.
The French set fire to the trees which had made settling there so problematic for the Spanish.
Following the intervention of the Knights of Malta in 1651, Poincy paid 90,000 livres to make peace with Thoissy.
He persuaded Giovanni Paolo Lascaris, Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, to pay 120,000 livres for St Kitts, St Croix, St Bartholomew, and St Martin.
Although Poincy was immediately appointed as governor, Charles Jacques Huault de Montmagny was soon appointed in his place.
However, when Montmagny arrived, just as with Thoissy, Poincy refused to step aside, and Montmagny was obliged to settle down in Cayenne.
where he lived waiting for the death of Poincy.
In the event he waited until his own death in 1657.
In 1653 the French king further entrenched the authority of the Knights of Malta on the four islands, retaining sovereignty over the islands with 1,000 crowns to be paid on the accession of each new French King.
Poincy died on 11 April 1660, at the age of 77.
He was a Bailiff Grand cross of the Knights of Malta and Squadron commander of the French Brittany Fleet.
he was buried in Basseterre, probably in the grounds of what is now St George's church.
He is credited with turning Basseterre into a successful Caribbean trading port.
The annual Saint Kitts carnival troupe, Les Actors, are people descended from a troupe of Acrobats from Africa whom he had imported to Saint Kitts as his slaves and personal performers for parties at La Fontaine.
Charles J. Ducey
Charles J. Ducey was Deputy Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus.
Patrick E. Kelly
Patrick E. Kelly is the Deputy Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus and the executive director of the Saint John Paul II National Shrine.
Pupi Avati
Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati( born 3 November 1938), is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter.
He is known to horror film fans for his two masterpieces of the macabre," The House with Laughing Windows"( 1976) and" Zeder"( 1983).
12 Strong
12 Strong( also known as 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers) is a 2018 American action war drama film directed by Nicolai Fuglsig and written by Ted Tally and Peter Craig.
The film is based on Doug Stanton's non-fiction book" Horse Soldiers", which tells the story of U.S. Army Special Forces sent to Afghanistan immediately after the September 11 attacks.
The film stars Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña, Navid Negahban, Trevante Rhodes, Geoff Stults, Thad Luckinbill, William Fichtner, and Rob Riggle.
Principal photography began in January 2017 in New Mexico.
The film was released in the United States on January 19, 2018 by Warner Bros.
Pictures, in standard and IMAX theaters.
It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the cast and action but criticized the by- the- numbers execution and lack of hindsight of the War in Afghanistan.

Question: Do both films, The Knights of the Quest and 12 Strong, have the directors who are from the same country?
Answer: no