Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul (IPA:; born 16 July 1970) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer.
Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, Weerasethakul has directed several features and dozens of short films.
His feature films include "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives", winner of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or prize; "Tropical Malady", which won a jury prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival; "Blissfully Yours", which won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival; "Syndromes and a Century", which premiered at the 63rd Venice Film Festival and was the first Thai film to be entered in competition there; and "Cemetery of Splendour", which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim.
Weerasethakul has received numerous additional accolades, including the 2016 Principal Prince Claus Award and the eighth edition of the Artes Mundi Prize <ref>
Ningali Lawford
Ningali Josie Lawford( 1967 – 11 August 2019) was an Australian actress known for her roles in the films" Rabbit- Proof Fence"( 2002)," Bran Nue Dae"( 2009), and" Last Cab to Darwin"( 2015), for which she was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Jimmy Chi
James Ronald Chi( 1948 – 26 June 2017) was an Australian composer, musician and playwright.
His best known work is the 1990 musical" Bran Nue Dae" which was adapted for film in 2009.
Blissfully Yours
Blissfully Yours  is a 2002 Thai romance film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
It won the prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Robyn Kershaw
Robyn Kershaw is an Australian independent film and television producer, best known for her work on feature drama," Looking for Alibrandi"( 2000), musical- comedy," Bran Nue Dae"( 2009), the hit TV series" Kath& Kim"( original run: 2002 – 2005) and working with the YouTube sensation Mychonny on" Sucker"( 2015)," Mychonny Moves In"( 2015) and" The China Boy Show"( 2017).
Rocky McKenzie
Phillip" Rocky" McKenzie is an Aboriginal Australian actor from Broome, Western Australia.
He played Willie in the film version of" Bran Nue Dae".
In 2010, he won a Deadly Award for Male Actor of the Year.
Stephen Albert (actor)
Stephen" Baamba" Albert( 1950 – 13 November 2019) was an Indigenous Australian actor and singer.
He starred in the musicals" Bran Nue Dae" and" Corrugation Road".
Albert was born in the Western Australian town of Broome.
He grew up with his mother, a Bardi woman, and his stepfather, a Japanese man who had worked in Broome's pearling industry.
He was influenced by members of his extended family who had learnt orchestral instruments at the leprosarium near Derby.
Initially taking up training as an apprentice diesel mechanic, his professional musical career began in 1968 with the band Broome Beats, which fused Indigenous, Asian, and European musical influences.
His performance career included working for Jimmy Chi in" Bran Nue Dae" and" Corrugation Road", as the sidekick for Mary G, appeared in the SBS drama series" The Circuit" and presented the" Bobtales" TV series.
Albert was also the first chairman of the National Aboriginal Education Committee and was the director of Goolarri Media.
Albert was part of the local community who formed the Broome Aboriginal Media Association who own the Goolarri Media Enterprises.
Goolarri Media operate tw0 TV stations and one radio station broadcasting from Broome in the Kimberley region.
He died at a Perth hospital on 13 November 2019, aged 69.
Bran Nue Dae (film)
Bran Nue Dae is a 2009 Australian musical comedy- drama film directed by Rachel Perkins and written by Perkins and Reg Cribb.
A feature film adaptation of the 1990 stage musical" Bran Nue Dae" by Jimmy Chi, the film tells the story of the coming of age of an Aboriginal Australian teenager on a road trip in the late 1960s.
Rachel Perkins
Rachel Perkins( born 1970) is an Australian film and television director, producer, and screenwriter.
She is known for her films" Radiance"( 1998)," One Night the Moon"( 2001)," Bran Nue Dae"( 2010), and" Jasper Jones"( 2017).
Perkins is an Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman from Central Australia, who was raised in Canberra by Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins and his wife Eileen.
Kerrianne Cox
Kerrianne Cox is an Aboriginal singer from Beagle Bay in Western Australia.
She has toured widely around Australia and toured USA and South Africa and appeared in the musical Bran Nue Dae in 1996.
Cox was nominated in the Deadly Awards for Best Emerging Artist( 1998) and Best Female Artist( 1999, 2000, 2001), winning in 2001.
She won a WAMi in 1997 as Best Indigenous Artist Of The Year and in 2002 she received another nomination.
In 2000 she was NAIDOC's Female Artist Of The Year.

Question: Are the directors of films Blissfully Yours and Bran Nue Dae (Film) both from the same country?
Answer: no