Question: Were Alan Mak and Jacques Rivette from the same country?

Context articles: Nicole Lubtchansky
Paris Belongs to Us
Jacques Rivette
Les films du losange
Fool's Mate (1956 film)
The Story of Marie and Julien
Alan Mak (director)
Jacques Rivette filmography
Une Visite
Jacques Rivette, le veilleur

Nicole Lubtchansky was a French film editor who worked primarily with director Jacques Rivette.
 She edited twenty of Rivette's films, starting with 1969's "L'amour fou" and concluding with 2009's "Around a Small Mountain".
 In between, Lubtchansky edited such acclaimed Rivette films as "Celine and Julie Go Boating", "Love on the Ground" and "La Belle Noiseuse".
Paris Belongs to Us (French: Paris nous appartient , sometimes translated as Paris Is Ours) is a 1961 French mystery film directed by Jacques Rivette and starring Betty Schneider.
 Begun in 1957 and completed three years later, it was then-critic Rivette's first full-length film as a director and one of the first works of the French New Wave, though it was not released theatrically until 1961.
Jacques Rivette (] ; 1 March 1928 – 29 January 2016) was a French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine "Cahiers du Cinéma".
 He made twenty-nine films, including "L'amour fou" (1969), "Out 1" (1971), "Celine and Julie Go Boating" (1974), and "La Belle Noiseuse" (1991).
 His work is noted for its improvisation, loose narratives, and lengthy running times.
Les films du losange is a film production company founded by Barbet Schroeder and Éric Rohmer in 1962.
 The company funds and distributes many films from the French nouvelle vague era, directed by Rohmer, Schroeder, Roger Planchon, Jacques Rivette, and later on Michael Haneke and Jacques Doillon.
Fool's Mate (French: "Le Coup du berger" ) is a twenty-eight-minute short film directed by Jacques Rivette.
 It stars Virginie Vitry as a wife cheating on her husband (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze).
 When her lover (Jean-Claude Brialy) buys her a mink coat, the adulterous pair hatch a plan to avoid her husband's questioning the coat's origins.
The Story of Marie and Julien (French: Histoire de Marie et Julien ) is a 2003 French drama film directed by Nouvelle Vague film maker Jacques Rivette.
 The film slowly develops from a drama about blackmail into a dark, yet tender, supernatural love story between Marie and Julien, played by Emmanuelle Béart and Jerzy Radziwiłowicz.
 Anne Brochet plays the blackmailed Madame X. Béart had previously worked with Rivette in "La Belle Noiseuse", as had Radziwiłowicz in "Secret Defense".
 The film was shot by William Lubtchansky, and edited by Nicole Lubtchansky, both frequent collaborators of Rivette's.
Alan Mak Siu-fai (; born 1 January 1965), is a Hong Kong writer, director, actor and producer.
Jacques Rivette (] ; 1 March 1928 – 29 January 2016) was a French film director, screenwriter and film critic.
 He wrote and directed twenty feature films, including the two-part "Joan the Maiden", eight short films and a three-part television documentary.
 He also acted in small roles and participated in documentaries.
 After making his first short film, "Aux quatre coins", in his hometown of Rouen, Rivette moved to Paris in 1949 to pursue a career in filmmaking.
 While attending film screenings at Henri Langlois' Cinémathèque Française and other ciné-clubs he gradually befriended many future members of the French New Wave, including François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol.
 Rivette's association with this group of young cinephiles lead to the start of both his filmmaking career and his work in film criticism.
 In collaboration with his new friends, Rivette made two more short films and worked as a cinematographer and editor on films by Rohmer and Truffaut.
 He also worked in small roles and as an assistant director to Jean Renoir on "French Cancan" and Jacques Becker on "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves".
 During this period he began writing film criticism for the magazine "Gazette du Cinéma" and later "Cahiers du Cinéma", and was one of the most respected writers by his peers.
Une Visite (French: "A Visit" ) was the first short film made by 23-year-old François Truffaut.
 It was filmed in Jacques Doniol-Valcroze’s apartment and its crew included Jacques Rivette, Alain Resnais and Truffaut's boyhood friend Robert Lachenay.
 It was only briefly screened for friends and is the only Truffaut film that has never been available for public viewing since Truffaut was unhappy with it.
Jacques Rivette, le veilleur (English: Jacques Rivette, the nightwatchman) is a 1990 French television documentary film directed by Claire Denis and Serge Daney.
 Chronicling the life of film critic and director Jacques Rivette, it is an episode of the long running French TV show "Cinéma, de notre temps", which profiles the lives of film directors.
 It was directed by Denis, with Daney acting as the interviewer.
 It was made in 1990and first broadcast on Arte on 24 February 1994.
 It is broken up into two parts: "Le Jour" (70 minutes) and "La Nuit" (54 minutes).