Question: What American actor and director starred in a 2002 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant?

Context articles: Harris Savides
My Own Private River
Casey Affleck
Finding Forrester
Drugstore Cowboy
Promised Land (2012 film)
Last Days (2005 film)
Elias McConnell
Gerry (2002 film)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (film)

Harris Savides (September 28, 1957 – October 9, 2012) was an American cinematographer.
 Notable films include Gus Van Sant's "young death" trilogy ("Gerry", "Elephant", and "Last Days"), and the Van Sant films "Milk", "Finding Forrester", and "Restless"; David Fincher's "The Game", "Zodiac", and the opening title sequence in "Seven"; Martin Scorsese's short film "The Key to Reserva"; Wong Kar Wai's short film "The Follow"; Ridley Scott's "American Gangster"; Woody Allen's "Whatever Works"; Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere" and "The Bling Ring"; Noah Baumbach's "Greenberg" and "Margot at the Wedding"; and John Turturro's "Illuminata".
My Own Private River is a re-contextualized adventure drama film of My Own Private Idaho (1991).
 Using footage shot and directed by Gus Van Sant in 1990, the new edit gives James Franco and Van Sant a shared director credit.
 The project is in tribute to Franco's favorite actor, River Phoenix.
 Franco called "Idaho" one of his favorite movies and praised River's performance as the actor’s best.
Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt (born August 12, 1975) is an American actor and director.
 He began his career as a child actor, appearing in the PBS television movie "Lemon Sky" (1988) and the ABC miniseries "The Kennedys of Massachusetts" (1990).
 He later appeared in three Gus Van Sant films – "To Die For" (1995), "Good Will Hunting" (1997), and "Gerry" (2002) – and in Steven Soderbergh's comedy heist trilogy "Ocean's Eleven" (2001), "Ocean's Twelve" (2004) and "Ocean's Thirteen" (2007).
 His first leading role was in Steve Buscemi's independent comedy-drama "Lonesome Jim" (2006).
Finding Forrester is a 2000 American drama film written by Mike Rich and directed by Gus Van Sant.
 In the film, an African-American teenager, Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown), is invited to attend a prestigious private high school.
 By chance, Jamal befriends a reclusive writer, William Forrester (Sean Connery), through whom he refines his talent for writing and comes to terms with his identity.
 Anna Paquin, F. Murray Abraham, Michael Pitt, Glenn Fitzgerald, April Grace and Busta Rhymes star in supporting roles.
Drugstore Cowboy is a 1989 American crime drama film directed by the American filmmaker Gus Van Sant.
 Written by Van Sant and Daniel Yost, and based on an autobiographical novel by James Fogle, the film stars Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham and William S. Burroughs.
 It was Van Sant's second film as director.
Promised Land is a 2012 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Frances McDormand and Hal Holbrook.
 The screenplay is written by Damon and Krasinski based on a story by Dave Eggers.
 "Promised Land" follows two corporate salespeople who visit a rural town in an attempt to buy drilling rights from the local residents.
Last Days is a 2005 American drama film directed, produced and written by Gus Van Sant.
 It is a fictionalized account of the last days of a musician, loosely based on Kurt Cobain.
 It was released to theaters in the United States on July 22, 2005 and was produced by HBO.
 The film stars Michael Pitt as the character Blake, based on Kurt Cobain.
 Lukas Haas, Asia Argento, Scott Patrick Green and Thadeus A. Thomas also star in the film.
 This is the first film from Picturehouse, a joint venture between Time Warner's New Line Cinema and HBO Films subsidiaries to release art house, independent, foreign, and documentary films.
 The film received mixed reviews from critics.
 Though meant to be based on Kurt Cobain, it contradicts the factual evidence of Cobain's final days.
Elias Comfort McConnell (born 1985) is an American actor from Portland, Oregon.
 In 2003 he played a character of the same name in Gus Van Sant's film "Elephant".
 Three years later in 2006 he was cast in the role of Elie (segment "Le Marais") in the anthology film "Paris, Je t'aime" which had 22 different directors.
 In 2008 Elias played a small role as "Telephone Tree #8" in the Gus Van Sant directed biographical film "Milk".
 Followed closely by his 2009 role as "Young Hippy Boy" (Elias Comfort) in Jean-Claude Schlim's Luxembourgian-German drama film ""House of Boys"".
 Elias has an upcoming role in the Kevin Foong film "Casting Room" (2012) which is currently in post-production.
 Elias McConnell is now living in Brooklyn, New York.
Gerry is a 2002 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, who also co-wrote the film with Van Sant.
 It is the first film of Van Sant's "Death Trilogy", three films based on deaths that occurred in real life, and is succeeded by "Elephant" (2003) and "Last Days" (2005).
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a 1993 American romantic comedy-drama film based on Tom Robbins' 1976 novel of the same name.
 The film was directed by Gus Van Sant (credited as Gus Van Sant, Jr.) and starred an ensemble cast led by Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, Angie Dickinson, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Keanu Reeves, John Hurt, and Rain Phoenix.
 Robbins himself was the narrator.
 The soundtrack was sung entirely by k.d. lang.
 The film was dedicated to the late River Phoenix.