Question: Are both Alan Mak and A. Edward Sutherland from the same continent?

Context articles: Mack &amp; Myer for Hire
Alan Mak (director)
Coming Through
Steel Against the Sky
We're in the Navy Now
Ivan Sutherland
It's the Old Army Game
A. Edward Sutherland
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Nude Fear

Mack & Myer for Hire is an American sitcom that aired in syndication from 1963 to 1964.
 The show starred Mickey Deems and Joey Faye, and was produced by Trans-Lux Television in New York.
 Each episode was approximately 12 minutes long, and the show was filmed using a two-camera layout.
 Over 100 episodes were produced during its only year in production, and these were re-run well into the 1970s.
 (The series was produced by Sandy Howard and directed by Edward Sutherland.
 Sutherland had also directed film comedies with Laurel and Hardy and W.C. Fields.)
Alan Mak Siu-fai (; born 1 January 1965), is a Hong Kong writer, director, actor and producer.
Coming Through (1925) is a silent film directed by A. Edward Sutherland starring Thomas Meighan and Lila Lee.
 The film was Sutherland's directorial debut and is now considered a lost film.
Steel Against the Sky is a 1941 American comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and written by Paul Girard Smith.
 The film stars Lloyd Nolan, Alexis Smith, Craig Stevens, Gene Lockhart, Edward Ellis and Walter Catlett.
 The film was released by Warner Bros. on December 13, 1941.
We're in the Navy Now is a 1926 silent film comedy directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton.
 Beery and Hatton previously appeared as a comedy team in Sutherland's "Behind the Front" and are reunited here.
Ivan Edward Sutherland (born May 16, 1938) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, widely regarded as the "father of computer graphics."
 His early work in computer graphics as well as his teaching with David C. Evans in that subject at the University of Utah in the 1970s was pioneering in the field.
 Sutherland, Evans, and his students from that era invented several foundations of modern computer graphics.
 He received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers.
 He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as the National Academy of Sciences among many other major awards.
 In 2012 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology for "pioneering achievements in the development of computer graphics and interactive interfaces".
It's the Old Army Game is a 1926 American silent comedy film starring W. C. Fields and Louise Brooks.
 The "army game" is the shell game, a con-trick which WC Fields observes being played.
 "It's the old army game" he says, sagely.
 The film was directed by A. Edward Sutherland, billed as Eddie Sutherland, and co-stars Sutherland's aunt, the stage actress Blanche Ring in one of her few silent film appearances.
 The film is based on the revue "The Comic Supplement" by Joseph P. McEvoy and Fields, and included several skits from Fields' stage plays.
Albert Edward Sutherland (January 5, 1895 – December 31, 1973) was a film director and actor.
 Born in London, he was from a theatrical family.
 His father, Al Sutherland, was a theatre manager and producer and his mother, Julie Ring, was a vaudeville performer.
 He was a nephew of both Blanche Ring and Thomas Meighan, who was married to Frances Ring, another of his mother's sisters.
Nine Lives Are Not Enough is a 1941 drama film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and written by Fred Niblo Jr..
 The film stars Ronald Reagan, Joan Perry, and James Gleason, with Howard Da Silva, Faye Emerson and Edward Brophy.
 The film was released by Warner Bros. on September 20, 1941.
Nude Fear is a 1998 Hong Kong psychological horror-thriller film directed by Alan Mak, starring Kathy Chow as a homicide detective pursuing a recently resurfaced serial killer who raped and killed her mother 23 years before.
 The film is Mak's directorial debut.