Which director is from a country closer to the United States, Arturo Ripstein or Bahman Ghobadi?
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Arturo Ripstein Arturo Ripstein y Rosen (born December 13, 1943) is a Mexican film director.
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Bahman Ghobadi Bahman Ghobadi (Persian: بهمن قبادی‎ ‎ ; Kurdish: به‌همه‌ن قوبادی / Behmen Qubadî) is an Iranian film director, producer and writer of Kurdish ethnicity. He was born on February 1, 1969 in Baneh, Kurdistan province. Ghobadi belongs to the "new wave" of Iranian cinema.
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Solly Granatstein Solly Granatstein is an American television producer and director, formerly with CBS "60 Minutes", NBC News and ABC News. He is co-creator, along with Lucian Read and Richard Rowley, of "America Divided", a documentary series about inequality, and was co-executive producer of Years of Living Dangerously Season 1. He is the winner of nine Emmys, a Peabody, a duPont, two Polks, four Investigative Reporters and Editors awards, including the IRE medal, and virtually every other major award in broadcast journalism. He is also the screenwriter, with Vince Beiser, of "The Great Antonio", an upcoming film, developed by Steven Soderbergh and Warner Brothers.
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Richard L. Rubenstein Richard Lowell Rubenstein (born January 8, 1924 in New York City) is an educator in religion and a writer in the American Jewish community, noted particularly for his contributions to Holocaust theology. A Connecticut resident, he was married to art historian Betty Rogers Rubenstein (deceased 2013).
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Craig R. Baxley Craig Redding Baxley (born October 20, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) is an American director, stunt coordinator, stunt performer and occasional actor. He is best known for his work in the action and thriller genres.
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Amir Mokri Amir M. Mokri (Persian: امیر مکری‎ ‎ ; born June 11, 1956) is an Iranian-born American cinematographer known for his work on blockbuster action films such films as "Bad Boys II", "Fast & Furious", "Man of Steel" and "," collaborating with directors like Michael Bay, Andrew Niccol, and Zack Snyder.
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Willi Behnisch Willi Behnisch (born 1956 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine cinematographer, film director, and screenplay writer. Most of his work is as a cinematographer. He is sometimes credited as Jorge Guillermo Behnisch.
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Ellis R. Dungan Ellis Roderick Dungan (May 11, 1909 – December 1, 2001) was an American film director, who was well known for working in Indian films, predominantly in Tamil cinema, from 1936 to 1950. He was an alumnus of the University of Southern California and moved to India in 1935. During his film career in South India, Dungan directed the debut films of several popular Tamil film actors, such as M. G. Ramachandran in "Sathi Leelavathi", T. S. Balaiya and N. S. Krishnan.
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Gus Meins Gus Meins (March 6, 1893 – August 1, 1940 as Gustave Peter Ludwig Luley) was a German-American film director. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Robert Rodriguez Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20, 1968) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in Mexico and his home state, Texas. Rodriguez directed the 1992 action film "El Mariachi", which was a commercial success after grossing $2 million against a budget of $7,000. The film spawned two sequels known collectively as the "Mexico Trilogy": "Desperado" and "Once Upon a Time in Mexico". He directed "From Dusk till Dawn" in 1996 and developed its (2014–present). Rodriguez co-directed the 2005 neo-noir crime thriller anthology "Sin City" (adapted from the graphic novel of the same name) and the 2014 sequel, "". Rodriguez also directed the "Spy Kids" films, "The Faculty", as well as "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl", "Planet Terror", and "Machete". He is a friend and frequent collaborator of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, who founded the production company A Band Apart, which Rodriguez was a member of. In December 2013, Rodriguez launched his own cable television channel, El Rey.
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Udi Aloni Udi Aloni (Hebrew: אודי אלוני‎ ‎ ; born December 10, 1959) is an Israeli American filmmaker, writer, visual artist and political activist whose works focus on the interrelationships between art, theory, and action. He is one of three sons who were born to Israeli politician Shulamit Aloni.
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Ralph Irizarry Ralph Irizarry (born July 18, 1954) is a Grammy award-winning percussionist, bandleader, and studio musician who has played on jingles, film and television scores, and whose distinctive playing style has made an indelible mark on those artists with whom he has performed. In addition, he has performed, recorded, and toured with the likes of Harry Belafonte, David Byrne, Celia Cruz, Paquito D'Rivera, Juan Luis Guerra, Earl Klugh, Israel Lopez "Cachao", Wynton Marsalis, Paul Simon and many others. Irizarry has also appeared on the "Johnny Carson Show" and the "David Letterman Show", as well as Don Francisco's Sabado Gigante and Raul Velasco's Siempre en Domingo. Irizarry was featured in the film "The Mambo Kings" and in documentaries such as "Belafonte's Routes of Rhythm", Cachao's "Como Mi Ritmo No Hay Dos" and "The Life of Rubén Blades".
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Edward Carfagno Edward Carfagno (November 28, 1907 – December 28, 1996) was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Oscar-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1952), Joseph Mankiewicz's "Julius Caesar" (1953) and William Wyler's "Ben-Hur" (1959). Carfagno went on to work consistently on a variety of films, including five collaborations with Clint Eastwood including "Tightrope" (1984) and "Heartbreak Ridge" (1987).
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Reza Badiyi Reza Sayed Badiyi also known as Reza Sayed Badiei (Persian: رضا بدیعی; April 17, 1929 – August 20, 2011) was an Iranian-American film director. Badiyi also directed episodes of many popular television series. His credits also include developing the opening montages for "Hawaii Five-O", "Get Smart", and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show".
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Fernando Wagner Fernando Wagner (November 7, 1906 in Göttingen, Germany – October 20, 1973 in Cuernavaca, Mexico) was a German-born Mexican actor and film director. He had prominent roles in "La Perla" and "The Wild Bunch". His interment was in Mexico City's Panteón Jardín.
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Eva Rubinstein Eva Rubinstein (born 1933) is a Polish-American photographer whose artistic works present portraits, nudes and interiors, often taken in Europe as well as the United States.
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Bob Gliner Robert Victor Gliner (born 1940s) is an independent documentary film director and producer and Emeritus Faculty of Sociology at San Jose State University. Gliner's work focuses on social advocacy and covers such topics as school reform, developing nations, consumerism, college athletics, the military–industrial complex and the disabled. Gliner funds most projects himself and airs his programs on Bay Area PBS stations such as KTEH, KQED, KCSM. Gliner lives in Ben Lomond, California.
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Reza Ghotbi Reza Ghotbi (Persian: رضا قطبی‎ ‎ , 1940 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian engineer who headed National Iranian Radio & Television during Pahlavi dynasty. He currently lives in the United States. During the time he attended Alborz High School, he developed ties to the Pan-Iranist Party.
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Ali Ghanbari Ali Ghanbari (born 1950 in Abadan, Iran) is an Iranian-American photojournalist who has worked at Fox affiliate WJW in Cleveland, Ohio, since 1994.
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Woman of the Port (1991 film) Woman of the Port (Spanish: La mujer del puerto ) is a 1991 Mexican drama film directed by Arturo Ripstein. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.
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Jacqueline Ripstein Jacqueline Ripstein is an artist from Mexico City, Mexico. She created the "Invisible Art and Light Technique" for which she holds two patents.
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No One Writes to the Colonel (film) No One Writes to the Colonel (Spanish: "El coronel no tiene quien le escriba" ) is a 1999 Spanish-language film directed by Arturo Ripstein. It was an international co-production between France, Spain and Mexico. It is based on the eponymous novella by Colombian author and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez.