Question: Are the directors of both films Blue Collar (film) and Tropic of Ice from the same country?

I Want Your Love is the title of both a 2010 short film and a 2012 feature- length film. Both films were directed and written by Travis Mathews. 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. 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. The production of both films was aided by the gay pornographic studio NakedSword. 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> Simon Alan Reeve( born 21 July 1972) is a British author and television presenter, currently based in London. He makes travel documentaries and has written books on international terrorism, modern history and his adventures. He has presented the BBC television series" Tropic of CancerEquator" and" Tropic of Capricorn". Reeve is the" New York Times'" best- selling author of" The New Jackals"( 1998)," One Day in September"( 2000) and" Tropic of Capricorn"( 2007). He has received a One World Broadcasting Trust Award and the 2012 Ness Award from the Royal Geographical Society. <SEP> Schrader wrote or co-wrote screenplays for four Martin Scorsese films: "Taxi Driver" (1976), "Raging Bull" (1980), "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1988), and "Bringing Out the Dead" (1999). Paul Joseph Schrader  (born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. He has directed 18 feature films, including his directing debut, the crime drama "Blue Collar" (co-written with his brother, Leonard Schrader), the crime drama "Hardcore" (a loosely autobiographical film also written by Schrader), his 1982 remake of the horror classic "Cat People", the crime drama "American Gigolo" (1980), the biographical drama  (1985), the true life biopic "Patty Hearst" (1988), the cult film "Light Sleeper" (1992), the drama "Affliction" (1997), the biographical film "Auto Focus" (2002), the erotic dramatic thriller "The Canyons" (2013), and the dramatic thriller "First Reformed" (2017), which earned him his first Academy Award nomination. <SEP> It was written by Schrader and his brother Leonard, and stars Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto. The film is both a critique of union practices and an examination of life in a working- class Rust Belt enclave. Although it has minimal comic elements provided by Pryor, it is mostly dramatic. Blue Collar is a 1978 American crime drama film directed by Paul Schrader, in his directorial debut. Schrader, who was at the time a renowned screenwriter for his work on" Taxi Driver"( 1976), recalls the shooting as a very difficult one because of the artistic and personal tensions between himself and the actors( as well as between the stars themselves); also stating that it was the only occasion he suffered an on- set mental breakdown, which made him seriously reconsider his career. The film was shot in Detroit and Kalamazoo, Michigan. <SEP> Tropic of Ice(" Jään kääntöpiiri") is a Finnish spy film shot in Helsinki, Olavinlinna and London. It was produced by Kaj Holmberg and the production company was Skandia- Filmi Oy. It was directed by Lauri Törhönen and released in 1987. <SEP> He has directed 13 feature films including" Tropic of Ice". He worked in Warren Beatty's" Reds" as the second assistant director: Finland( as Lauri Torhonen) and in" Gorky Park" by Michael Apted also as the second assistant director: Finland( as Lauri Torhonen). Lauri Törhönen( born 16 August 1947 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish film director. Törhönen worked as professor of film art in University of Art and Design Helsinki. In January 2018, the Finnish national broadcasting service Yle published news of accusations of sexual harassment against Törhönen. The accusations were made by around 20 women, and contain events from the 1980s to the 2000s. Later Törhönen published a brief press release where he apologised his behaviour. In a television interview some weeks later he acknowledged some bad behaviour but denied any allegations of serious sexual harassment.