Question: Are the directors of both films Hope Floats and Sold (2014 Film) from the same country?

<P0-S0> Hope Floats is a 1998 American drama film directed by Forest Whitaker and starring Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr., and Gena Rowlands. <P0-S1> Birdee( Bullock) is an unassuming housewife whose life is disrupted when her husband( Michael Paré) reveals his infidelity to her on a Ricki Lake- style talk show. <P0-S2> She and her young daughter Bernice go back home to her mother( Rowlands) and the small town in which she grew up, where everyone knows of her televised marital collapse. <P0-S3> Meanwhile, she meets an old friend of hers, Justin( Connick, Jr.), instantly sparking a romance. <P0-S4> While Justin's intentions are clear and good, Birdee struggles with the decision to unequivocally accept him in her life. <SEP> <P1-S0> Whitaker has earned a reputation for intensive character study work for films such as" Bird The Crying GamePlatoon The Great Debaters The Butler", and" Arrival". <P1-S1> Forest Steven Whitaker III( born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, producer, and director. <P1-S2> He has also appeared in blockbusters such as" Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" as Saw Gerrera and" Black Panther" as Zuri. <P1-S3> For his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 2006 film" The Last King of Scotland", Whitaker won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, National Board of Review Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and various critics groups' awards for a lead acting performance. <SEP> <P2-S0> I Want Your <P2-S1> Love is the title of both a 2010 short film and a 2012 feature- length film. <P2-S2> Both films were directed and written by Travis Mathews. <P2-S3> The drama films both revolve around the friends and ex-lovers of Jesse Metzger, a gay man in his mid-thirties who is forced to move back to his hometown from San Francisco due to financial reasons. <P2-S4> The actors' own names, along with much of their real- life stories, were used for their characters in both films, which features graphic sexual scenes. <P2-S5> The production of both films was aided by the gay pornographic studio NakedSword. <P2-S6> This led to the full- length film being refused exemption from classification, which would have allowed it to screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a decision to which actor James Franco( who invited Mathews to collaborate on Franco's film" Interior. Leather Bar.") reacted negatively. <SEP> <P3-S0> Lisa Bruce is an American film producer known for the 2014 film" The Theory of Everything". <SEP> <P4-S0> Sold is a 2014 narrative feature film directed by Jeffrey D. Brown based on Patricia McCormick's novel" Sold". <P4-S1> The film is executive produced by Emma Thompson and produced by Jane Charles. <P4-S2> The script was written by Joseph Kwong and Jeffrey D. Brown. <SEP> <P5-S0> Jeffrey D. Brown is an American film and television director, film producer and screenwriter. <P5-S1> He is best known for the directing, producing and writing the short film" Molly's Pilgrim" for which he won an Academy Award in 1986 for Best Live Action Short Film. <P5-S2> His other directing credits are the television series" The Wonder YearsL.A. LawHoopermanFreshman DormBaby Boom" and an episode of" CBS Schoolbreak Special". <P5-S3> Brown has also produced and co-wrote the films" Pontiac Moon"( 1994) starring Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen and" Dream with the Fishes"( 1997), both in collaboration with Finn Taylor. <P5-S4> He directed the narrative feature film" Sold"( 2014) based on Patricia McCormick's novel" Sold".