Question: Harsh Times was directed by the film director who is best known for writing which 2001 film?

Context articles: Péter Tímár
Balkan brass
Beverly Donofrio
Sean Garrity (director)
Khalid Mohamed
Harsh Times
Todd Stephens
David Ayer
Vladimir Mashkov
Vernon Zimmerman

Péter Tímár (born 19 December 1950) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
 He has directed 14 films since 1985.
 His 1989 film "Before the Bat's Flight Is Done" was entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.
 His 1999 film "" was entered into the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
 His 2001 film "Blind Guys" was entered into the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival.
Balkan brass, popularly known by the Serbian name "Truba" (, "trumpet"), is a distinctive style of music originating in 19th-century Serbia when trumpeters in the military transcribed folk music during harsh times.
 It is popular throughout the Balkans, especially Serbia, Macedonia and Bulgaria.
 The beats are usually fast and often accompanied by "kolo", a dance.
 The performers each have their instrument of the orchestra and are called "trubači" ("трубачи").
 Some of the best known examples of acclaimed music in this style are from Goran Bregović and Boban Marković Orkestar.
 The Serbian film maker Emir Kusturica has, through his films ("Black Cat, White Cat"), made the style popular in the international community outside the Balkans.
Beverly Ann Donofrio (born 23 September 1950) is an American memoirist, children's author and creative writing teacher most noted for her 1992 best selling memoir, "Riding in Cars with Boys".
 The memoir was adapted into the 2001 film "Riding in Cars with Boys", directed by Penny Marshall, with Drew Barrymore portraying Donofrio.
 She also is a prolific essayist, having published work in numerous anthologies, in "The New York Times", "The Washington Post Sunday Magazine", "The Village Voice", the "Los Angeles Times", and in such magazines as "Allure", "Cosmopolitan", "O, The Oprah Magazine", and "Marie Claire".
Sean Garrity is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.
 He is best known for his 2001 film "Inertia", which won the award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival, and his 2012 film "My Awkward Sexual Adventure".
Khalid Mohamed is an Indian journalist, editor, film critic, screenwriter and film director.
 He formerly worked for the "Hindustan Times" and was the lead editor for "Filmfare" magazine.
 He is the son of Hindi film actress Zubeida Begum, on whose life he wrote the screenplay of Shyam Benegal's 2001 film, "Zubeidaa".
Harsh Times is a 2005 American crime film set in South Los Angeles.
 The film stars Christian Bale and Freddy Rodriguez, and was written and directed by David Ayer, who wrote the script for the Academy Award-winning 2001 film "Training Day".
 The film was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Bauer Martinez Entertainment.
 Ayer says that the film's characters are largely based on the people he knew when he lived in South Central.
Todd Stephens is an American film director, writer, and producer.
 He was raised in Sandusky, Ohio, which has served as the setting for several of his films, many of which are gay-themed.
 He both wrote and produced the autobiographical coming out film "Edge of Seventeen", which was released in 1998.
 He has directed the 2001 film, "Gypsy 83", and "Another Gay Movie", which was released in 2006, as well as the follow-up "" which premiered at the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco on June 28, 2008.
David Ayer (born January 18, 1968) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
 He is best known for being the writer of "Training Day" (2001), and the director and writer of "Harsh Times" (2005), "Street Kings" (2008), "End of Watch" (2012), "Sabotage" (2014), "Fury" (2014), and "Suicide Squad" (2016).
Vladimir Lvovich Mashkov, PAR (born 27 November 1963) is a Soviet and Russian theater actor and director of cinema, known to Western audiences for his work in the 2001 film "Behind Enemy Lines" and 2011 film "".
 Mashkov has also worked as a film director, producer and writer for the 2004 Russian film "Papa".
Vernon Zimmerman is an American writer and director who made his feature debut as director with the 1962 short "Lemon Hearts" starring Andy Warhol associate Taylor Mead.
 Zimmerman wrote and directed the Claudia Jennings roller derby drive-in film "Unholy Rollers" and collaborated with Terrence Malick on the script to the road movie "Deadhead Miles".
 He is most well known for his horror slasher film "Fade to Black", a dark and despairing psychological study of an awkward and alienated hardcore film buff who exacts a harsh revenge on his cruel tormentors.
 Zimmerman received a Saturn Award nomination as Best Director for the film, a predecessor to more well-known modern parodies of the horror genre.
 Vernon also wrote the scripts for the horror-Western "Hex" (a.k.a. "Charmed"), the redneck crime exploitation film "Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw", the made-for-TV wrestling comedy/drama "Mad Bull", the failed TV pilot film "Shooting Stars", and the teen fantasy comedy "Teen Witch".
 Zimmerman's latest film is the six-minute comic short "Chuck and Wally on the Road".
 More recently Vernon has been working as a script analyst.
 He also teaches screen-writing courses at UCLA's Extension and Certificate Program.
 Zimmerman also taught classes on both writing feature scripts and directing actors for film and television at the USC School of Cinema and Television.
 Vernon Zimmerman lives in Los Angeles and is a member of both the Writers Guild of America and the Directors Guild of America.