Question: Are director of film Song Of The Open Road and director of film Campaign Of Hate: Russia And Gay Propaganda from the same country?

Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre. <SEP> He began his film career at Warner Bros. in 1935, directing screen tests. S. Sylvan Simon( March 9, 1910 – May 17, 1951) was an American stage/ film director and producer. In 1937, Simon moved to MGM, where he worked on the Marx Brothers'" The Big Store", supervising many of the slapstick sequences. He directed Red Skelton's first starring feature, 1941's" Whistling in the Dark", and later worked on two more Skelton vehicles," A Southern Yankee" and" The Fuller Brush Man", in 1948. Simon also directed Wallace Beery in" Bad Bascomb"( 1946), and a Glenn Ford western," Lust for Gold"( 1949). Simon was the producer of" Born Yesterday", a 1950 comedy that was nominated for five Academy Awards. He then suddenly died of a heart attack at the age of 41. His ashes were interred in a small unassuming bronze nameplate niche at Columbarium of Memory( Niche# 20174), in the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California. <SEP> He is a columnist for" The AdvocateHuffPost", and" Pink News". The" New Republic" dubbed Lucas" Gay Porn's Neocon Kingpin", and" FrontPage Magazine" cited him as" the most mainstreamed, provocative, and controversial figure in gay adult entertainment today." He contends that his film" Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita" is the most expensive gay porn film ever made, with a budget of$ 250,000 and multiple celebrity cameos. In 2009, Lucas was inducted into the GayVN Hall of Fame, noted for" his stature as an A- list director and performer". He was included in a 2009" New York" magazine feature about people who made it to the top, but arrived to the city with very little. Lucas is particularly well known for his activism and outspokenness. His criticism of drug use and his sponsorship of public service ad campaigns about the dangers of unprotected sex in the gay community led Harvey Fierstein to interview him for" The Advocate". His" New York Blade" columns on Ultra- Orthodox Judaism and Islam sparked a campus debate at Stanford University in February 2008 when Lucas was invited to give a speech to students. Michael Lucas( born Andrei Lvovich Treivas, March 10, 1972) is a Russian – Israeli- American gay pornographic film actor, director, activist, writer and the founder/ CEO of Lucas Entertainment, New York City's largest gay- adult- film company. In 2010 he debated Peter Tatchell and Sue Sanders at England's Oxford University on whether the gay rights movement has undermined family values. In 2009, Lucas released the film" Men of Israel", which he called his most important. Journalists from" The AtlanticOut Magazine" and" Yediot Aharonot" noted it as a landmark film as the first pornographic movie shot on location with an all- Israeli cast; while" Tablet Magazine" and the" Los Angeles Times" remarked on it being the first to feature an all- Jewish cast. Lucas followed the film with a gay tour of Israel. New York's LGBT Center stopped allowing groups associated with the Israeli- Palestinian conflict to meet in their building after Lucas led a protest over their allowance of an anti-occupation group. In recent years Lucas has also begun work as a documentarian. In 2012, he released his first documentary film about the thriving Israeli LGBT community. Titled, the film includes footage of Tel Aviv's vibrant nightlife, a same- sex wedding, and candid interviews with a diverse range of local Israeli gays and lesbians, including a gay MP, an openly gay Army trainer, a drag queen, a transvestite, a young Arab- Israeli journalist, and same- sex parents raising their children and a number of artists and activists. In 2014 Lucas released his second documentary," Campaign of Hate: Russia and Gay Propaganda," which investigates the current anti-gay climate in Russian politics and society. <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> Campaign of Hate: Russia and Gay Propaganda is a 2014 American documentary about LGBT rights in Russia directed by Scott Stern and Michael Lucas. <SEP> It was the debut film of teenage singer Jane Powell. Song of the Open Road is a 1944 musical comedy film directed by S. Sylvan Simon, from a screenplay by Irving Phillips and Edward Verdier. Powell's real name was Suzanne Burce, but prior to the release of this film MGM assigned her the stage name" Jane Powell"( the name of the character she portrays in this film).