Question: Which film has the director who is older, Nishad (2002 Film) or Scarlet Days?

His debut film "Piravi" (1988) won the Caméra d'Or – Mention d'honneur at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. He was the premiere chairman of the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, the first academy for film and TV in India and was also the executive chairman of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) from 1998 to 2001. He is best known for his award-winning films "Piravi" (1988), "Swaham" (1994), "Vanaprastham" (1999) and "Kutty Srank" (2009). He won the National Award for Best Director for his debut film "Piravi". He also won two Kerala State Film Awards for Best Director for his films "Swaham" and "Vanaprastham". Currently, he is the Chairman of Kerala State Film Development Corporation. Shaji Neelakantan Karun (born 1 January 1952) is an Indian film director and cinematographer. <SEP> It premiered at the Fukuoka International Film Festival held in September 2002 in Japan, was featured at more than ten other international film festivals, and was selected for Indian Panorama, International Film Festival of India. Nishad( English title:" Octave") is a 2002 Indian Hindi film directed by Shaji N. Karun with Archana, Rajit Kapur, Geshe Thupten Phelgye, Master Jhang Ray, Ram Gopal Bajaj and Rameshwari in the lead roles. <SEP> Charlotte Sometimes is a 2002 film written, directed, and produced by Eric Byler. <SEP> Widely considered as the most important filmmaker of his generation, he pioneered the feature- length movie and many enduring cinematic techniques, such as the close- up. His film" The Birth of a Nation"( 1915) broke box- office records but also attracted much controversy, as it depicted African Americans in a negative light and glorified the Ku Klux Klan. " Intolerance"( 1916) was made as an answer to his critics. Several of Griffith's later films were also successful, including" Broken Blossoms"( 1919)," Way Down East"( 1920), and" Orphans of the Storm"( 1921), but the high costs he incurred for production and promotion often led to commercial failure. He had made roughly 500 films by the time of his final feature," The Struggle"( 1931). Together with Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, he founded United Artists, enabling them to control their own interests, rather than depending on commercial studios. Griffith was a founder member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. David Wark Griffith( January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director. <SEP> Elliot Silverstein( born August 3, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American director, who is best known for being the director of the movie" Cat Ballou"( 1965). <SEP> Richard Barthelmess stars in a role for which Griffith had screentested Rudolph Valentino. In today's time, this film is considered by many to be one of Griffith's worst films though it might have worked better as a short film. This film was unlike others created by D.W. Griffith. According to an article written for the "Cincinnati Inquirer", written on the 16 of November 1919: "Unlike other recent Griffith production, "Scarlet Days" is a story of the old West, of the gold rush days of 49- Bret Harte transferred to the screen!" The Western film genre was expanding at this time and "Scarlet Days" fits into this category. Western films were popular for this time. Considered a lost film, a print was found in the State Film Archives of the Soviet Union, which donated it to the Museum of Modern Art in 1969. Scarlet Days is a 1919 American silent western film produced and directed by D. W. Griffith and released through Paramount/Artcraft Pictures, Artcraft being an affiliate of Paramount. The film was screened to the public, for the first time since its rediscovery, on March 24th and 25th, 1969. "Scarlet Days" was shown alongside another missing film, "A Romance of Happy Valley", at the Museum of Modern Art's auditorium with titles still printed in Russian. English titles were later created by the Department of Film at the Museum of Modern Art.