Question: Are Terry Zwigoff and Pavel Ruminov both American film directors?

full_context: Document 1: Vernon Zimmerman: 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.
Document 2: Pavel Ruminov: Pavel Yurevich Ruminov (Russian: Па́вел Ю́рьевич Руми́нов ; born 25 November 1974) is a Russian film director. He began his career in Vladivostok directing music videos for Russian acts such as Mumiy Troll and Zemfira before relocating to Moscow. He is best known in Russia for the Internet-based hype surrounding his first feature film "Dead Daughters", where he tried to marry horror and arthouse cinema effectively. The film divided critics in Russia, some praised its style and message, others found the structure of the movie to be very strange. He sold the remake rights for "Dead Daughters" to the Hollywood studio Gold Circle Films but no remake has been produced. His second film "Circumstances", a romantic comedy with dark overtones, was released in Russia in September 2009, but failed at the box-office. In 2012 his third movie "Ya Budu Ryadom" won the gran-prix for the best film at 23rd open film festival Kinotavr, the largest national film festival in Russia. Besides professional cinema, Pavel also makes amateur movies of his family and friends which are available on his website at YouTube.
Document 3: Terry Swartzberg: Terry Swartzberg (born July 22, 1953 in Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American PA (public affairs) campaigner and journalist. He is based in Munich, Germany and contributed for 25 years to the International Herald Tribune and other international publications. He is especially known for his work for the holocaust memorial project Stolpersteine and for his “reality check” - since 2012 he has been wearing a kippah in public.
Document 4: Ghost World (film): Ghost World is a 2001 American black comedy film directed by Terry Zwigoff and starring Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson and Steve Buscemi. Based on the comic book of the same name by Daniel Clowes, with a screenplay co-written by Clowes and Zwigoff, the story focuses on the lives of Enid (Birch) and Rebecca (Johansson), two teenage outsiders in an unnamed American city. They face a rift in their relationship as Enid takes interest in an older man named Seymour (Buscemi), and becomes determined to help his romantic life.
Document 5: Pāvels Gumennikovs: Pāvels Gumennikovs (born January 1, 1986) is a Latvian film director, actor, writer, and producer. He started his film career in China, where he directed his first film "Kaleidoscope" (2010) that won him a best young director and best film award in Chinese Young Film director Festival. After that he directed a movie "I love You Riga" that become 3rd highest grossing in a country and was one of the 2 films considered to be nomination for Oscar. It was the runner out at the end for Oscar nomination (2011) that become one of the most successful movies in Latvia and were screened in cinemas around the country and participated in European Film Festivals, after that he directed a critique very well received TV show "Yes Boss" (2012), that was proclaimed as best made show in Latvia for great acting and directing. It was a revolutionary TV Show for Latvia, as it was first TV Show shoot in outside locations with scale of Hollywood TV Show production. The TV Show was shown on Muz-TV channel and TV5 and was seen by 300,000 people online.
Document 6: Cinema of Ukraine: Ukraine has had an influence on the history of the cinema. Prominent Ukrainian directors include Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Dzyha Vertov and Serhiy Paradzhanov. Dovzhenko is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, as well as being a pioneer of Soviet montage theory and founding Dovzhenko Film Studios. In 1927 Dziga Vertov moved from Moscow to Ukraine. At the film studio VUFKU he made several avant-garde documentaries, among them «The Eleventh Year», «Man with a Movie Camera» and first Ukrainian documentary sound film «Enthusiasm (Symphony of the Donbass)». Paradzhanov was an Armenian film director and artist who made significant contributions to Ukrainian, Armenian and Georgian cinema; he invented his own cinematic style, Ukrainian poetic cinema, which was totally out of step with the guiding principles of socialist realism.
Document 7: Dmitry Davydov (filmmaker): Dmitry Leonidovich Davydov (Russian: Дмитрий Леонидович Давыдов , Amga, Sakha Republic, Russia; was born February 22, 1983) is a Russian film director. His first film, "Bonfire", was screened at the 21st Busan International Film Festival, and won an award for best dramatic feature at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto. It was nominated for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. This is the first film produced in the Sakha Republic which won a festival award outside of Russia. In april 29, 2017 he won an award best film director at the national filmfestival named #DVIZHENIE (Omsk city).
Document 8: Terrence Malick: Terrence Frederick Malick ( ; born November 30, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.
Document 9: Dead Daughters: Dead Daughters (Russian: Мёртвые дочери , translit. Myortvye docheri) is a Russian arthouse horror film directed by Pavel Ruminov.
Document 10: Misfits (band): Misfits are an American punk rock band often recognized as the progenitors of the horror punk subgenre, blending punk and other musical influences with horror film themes and imagery. Founded in 1977 in Lodi, New Jersey, the original lineup consisted of Glenn Danzig, bassist Jerry Only, and drummer Manny Martínez. Danzig and Only were the only consistent members throughout the next six years, in which they released several EPs and singles, and with Only's brother Doyle as guitarist, the albums "Walk Among Us" (1982) and "Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood" (1983), both considered touchstones of the early-1980s hardcore punk movement.
Document 11: Crumb (film): Crumb is a 1994 documentary film about the noted underground cartoonist Robert Crumb (R. Crumb) and his family. Directed by Terry Zwigoff and produced by Lynn O'Donnell, it won widespread acclaim. It was released in the USA on April 28, 1995, having been screened at film festivals the previous year. Jeffery M. Anderson (later critic for the "San Francisco Examiner") placed the film on his list of the ten greatest films of all time, labeling it "the greatest documentary ever made."
Document 12: Terry Zwigoff: Terry Zwigoff (born May 18, 1949) is an American filmmaker whose work often deals with misfits, antiheroes, and themes of alienation.
Document 13: Vladimir Menshov: Vladimir Valentinovich Menshov (Russian: Влади́мир Валенти́нович Меньшо́в ; born 17 September 1939 in Baku) is a Soviet and Russian actor and film director. He is noted for depicting the Russian everyman and working class life in his films. Like many other Russian filmmakers, he studied acting and directing at the state film school VGIK, the world's oldest educational institution in cinematography. Although his output as an actor outnumbers his output as a director, he is best known for the five films he directed, the most famous of which is the 1979 melodrama "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears", which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Actress Vera Alentova, who starred in the film, is the mother of Vladimir Menshov's daughter Yuliya Menshova.
Document 14: Art School Confidential (film): Art School Confidential is a 2006 comedy-drama film directed by Terry Zwigoff, loosely based on the comic of the same name by Daniel Clowes. The film is Zwigoff's second collaboration with Clowes, the first being 2001's "Ghost World" (which was also released by United Artists). The cast includes Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar, Ethan Suplee, Joel Moore, Nick Swardson, Adam Scott, and Anjelica Huston.
Document 15: Mikhail Krichman: Mikhail Krichman (Михаил Владимирович Кричман; born 1967) is a Russian cinematographer who received a Golden Osella award at the 67th Venice Film Festival for "Silent Souls". He photographed all of Andrey Zvyagintsev's films, including "The Return" (2003), "The Banishment" (2007), "Elena" (2010) and "Leviathan" (2014). Zvyagintsev claims that Krichman (an engineer by profession) learned his craft by reading "American Cinematographer". Krichman also shot "Miss Julie" for Norwegian director Liv Ullmann.
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