Question: What occupation do E. Elias Merhige and Jean-Pierre Jeunet have in common?

Context articles: Rue des cascades
The City of Lost Children
Begotten (film)
Amélie
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Shadow of the Vampire
E. Elias Merhige
Suspect Zero
Din of Celestial Birds
Les Mistons

Rue des cascades (English: "Cascade Street") is the second studio album by the musician and composer Yann Tiersen.
 It was released through Sine Terra Firma in 1996, and subsequently reissued in 1998, 2001, and 2009 through Ici, d'ailleurs... and Virgin Records in CD and double LP formats.
 The album, with the exclusion of two pieces, "Naomi" and "La Vie quotidienne", is a collection of short pieces recorded with toy piano, harpsichord, violin, accordion, mandolin, and other conventional and unconventional musical instruments such as an old typewriter in "Pas si simple".
 The title track, which was used about one year later for the film score of the Palme d'Or nominated French drama film "The Dreamlife of Angels", was sung by French soloist singer Claire Pichet, who also provided vocals on the track "Naomi", a song that features words from Allen Ginsberg's poem "Kaddish".
 François-Xavier Schweyer played the cello on "C'était ici" and "La Fenêtre".
 Three tracks, "J'y suis jamais allé", "Pas si simple", and "Soir de fête", will find a wider audience five years later when they were featured on the soundtrack to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's acclaimed film "Amélie".
The City of Lost Children (French: La cité des enfants perdus ) is a 1995 science fantasy drama film directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, written by Jeunet and Gilles Adrien, and starring Ron Perlman.
 An international co-production of companies from France, Germany, and Spain, the film is stylistically related to the previous and subsequent Jeunet films, "Delicatessen" and "Amélie".
Begotten is a 1990 American experimental dark fantasy horror film written, produced, edited and directed by E. Elias Merhige.
 It narrates the story of Genesis while re-imagining it.
Amélie (also known as Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain; ] ; English: "The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain" ) is a 2001 French romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
 Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre.
 It tells the story of a shy waitress, played by Audrey Tautou, who decides to change the lives of those around her for the better, while struggling with her own isolation.
 The film was a co-production between companies in France and Germany.
 Taking in over $33 million in a limited theatrical release, it is to date the highest-grossing French-language film released in the United States, and one of the biggest international successes for a French movie.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (] ; born 3 September 1953) is a French film director and screenwriter known for the films "Delicatessen", "The City of Lost Children", "" and "Amélie".
Shadow of the Vampire is a 2000 metafiction horror film directed by E. Elias Merhige, written by Steven Katz, and starring John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe.
 The film is a fictionalised account of the making of the classic vampire film "Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens", directed by F. W. Murnau, in which the film crew begin to have disturbing suspicions about their lead actor.
Edmund Elias Merhige, known as E. Elias Merhige (born June 14, 1964), is an American film director born in Brooklyn.
Suspect Zero is a 2004 American psychological thriller film starring Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley, and Carrie-Anne Moss.
 The film, which was produced by Tom Cruise's co-owned company Cruise/Wagner Productions, was directed by E. Elias Merhige.
 It was a box office bomb failing to earn half of its estimated $27 million production costs at the box office.
Din of Celestial Birds is a 2006 American experimental short film written, produced and directed by E. Elias Merhige in cooperation with the Q6 production group, a collective of philosophers and artists.
Les Mistons ("The Mischief Makers") is a short film directed by François Truffaut in 1957.
 It was his second film after "Une Visite" in 1955 but it is considered his "first short film of any real consequence".
 Truffaut simply called it "my first real film".
 Moreover, it was Bernadette Lafont's film debut.
 She was at that time Gérard Blain's wife.
 The film demonstrates already some examples for Truffaut's "trademark tracking shots" and would "help define his style" as well as "set Truffaut on a path for his career".
 Truffaut's narrative stresses the details of life, hereby establishing one of the traits of the French New Wave.
 Thus he also became a predecessor of French film directors such as Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Amélie").
 It has been stated that the formation of the French New Wave could be "tracked through two short films": Jean-Luc Godard's "All the Boys Are Called Patrick" and Truffaut's "Les Mistons".
 In 2013 the Museum of Modern Art in New York City screened this film together with Truffaut's "The 400 Blows".