Question: Which director is from a country closer to Canada, Alessandro Blasetti or Frank Tashlin?

full_context: Document 1: Roberto Rossellini: Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing to the movement films such as the 1945 "Roma città aperta" ("Rome, Open City").
Document 2: Bellissima (film): Bellissima (1951) is an Italian neorealism film by Italian director Luchino Visconti. The film, which is a satire of the film industry, was shot at the Cinecittà studios. Alessandro Blasetti, a contemporary film director, appears as himself. Bellissima is the only feature film in Visconti's oeuvre with a predominantly comic tone.
Document 3: Friz Freleng: Isadore "Friz" Freleng (August 21, 1906 – May 26, 1995), often credited as I. Freleng, was an American animator, cartoonist, director, producer, and composer known for his work on the Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" series of cartoons.
Document 4: Michelangelo Antonioni: Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007), was an Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer. Best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents" — "L'Avventura" (1960), "La Notte" (1961), and "L'Eclisse" (1962), as well as the English-language "Blowup" (1966), Antonioni "redefined the concept of narrative cinema" and challenged traditional approaches to storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large. He produced "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" and rejected action in favor of contemplation, focusing on image and design over character and story. His films defined a "cinema of possibilities".
Document 5: Melvin Frank: Melvin Frank (13 August 1913 in Chicago, Illinois – 13 October 1988 in Los Angeles, California) was an American screenwriter, film producer and film director. He is known for his work on films such as "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" (1948), "The Court Jester" (1956), and "A Touch of Class" (1973).
Document 6: The Bear That Wasn't: The Bear That Wasn't is a 1946 children's book by film director and "Looney Tunes" alumnus Frank Tashlin.
Document 7: Federico Fellini: Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (] ; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Known for his distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness, he is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. His films have ranked, in polls such as "Cahiers du cinéma" and "Sight & Sound", as some of the greatest films of all time. "Sight & Sound" lists his 1963 film "8½" as the 10th-greatest film of all time.
Document 8: Frank Tashlin: Francis Fredrick von Taschlein (February 19, 1913 – May 5, 1972), better known by his stage name Frank Tashlin, was an American animator, screenwriter, and film director. He was also known as Tish Tash and Frank Tash.
Document 9: Four Steps in the Clouds: Four Steps in the Clouds (Italian: Quattro passi fra le nuvole ) is a 1942 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Alessandro Blasetti, starring Gino Cervi and Adriana Benetti. It tells the story of a married man who agrees to act as the husband of a young pregnant woman who has been abandoned by her boyfriend. Aesthetically, it is close to Italian neorealism. The film's sets were designed by Virgilio Marchi.
Document 10: Frank Smith (animator): Frank A. Smith (August 31, 1911 – February 23, 1975) was an American cartoon animator and film director. He was the father of actor and film director Charles Martin Smith, and the brother of animator/director Paul J. Smith and animator Hank Smith.
Document 11: Alessandro Blasetti: Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900 – 1 February 1987) was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film "Quattro passi fra le nuvole". Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during the Fascist era. He is sometimes known as the "father of Italian cinema" because of his role in reviving the struggling industry in the late 1920s.
Document 12: Vittorio De Sica: Vittorio De Sica (] ; 7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.
Document 13: Frank Daniel: František "Frank" Daniel (April 14, 1926 – March 29, 1996) was a film director, producer and screenwriter born in Kolín, Czechoslovakia (the present day Czech Republic). He is known for developing the sequence paradigm of screenwriting.
Document 14: Ottavio Alessi: Born in Cammarata, Province of Agrigento, Alessi entered the film industry in 1940 as an assistant director. In 1945 he started an intense career as a screenwriter, alternating between genre films and art films and collaborating with Pietro Germi, Franco Rossi, Folco Quilici and Luciano Salce, among others. He also directed two films in the 1960s.
Document 15: Tex Avery: Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator and animation director, known for producing animated cartoons during the golden age of American animation. His most significant work was for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, crucial in the evolution of Bugs Bunny, creating Daffy Duck, Droopy, and Screwy Squirrel, and developing Porky Pig and Chilly Willy (this last one for the Walter Lantz Studio) into the personas for which they are remembered.
ground_truth: Frank Tashlin