Question: Are both directors of films The Widow of Montiel and Wanda (film) from the same country?

The Widow of Montiel is a 1979 Mexican- Colombian drama film directed by Chilean filmmaker Miguel Littín. It is based on a short story of the same name by Gabriel García Marquez. It was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. <SEP> Hero Ibrahim Ahmed( born 1948) is the former First Lady of Iraq and the widow of Jalal Talabani. <SEP> Set in the anthracite coal region of eastern Pennsylvania, the film focuses on an apathetic woman with limited options who inadvertently goes on the run with a bank robber. Inspired by her own past feelings of aimlessness, as well as a newspaper article detailing a woman's participation in a bank robbery, Loden wrote the screenplay for" Wanda" before securing financing through Harry Shuster, a Los Angeles- based producer. The film was shot on location with a small crew of around seven people, primarily in eastern Pennsylvania and Connecticut, and much of the dialog and filming was improvised, with Loden only loosely referring to the screenplay. " Wanda" was chosen for the 31st Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Pasinetti Award for Best Foreign Film. A restored version of the film was screened out of competition at the 67th Venice International Film Festival in 2010. In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Wanda is a 1970 American independent drama film written and directed by Barbara Loden, who also stars in the title role. <SEP> Richard Brody of" The New Yorker" described Loden as the" female counterpart to John Cassavetes". Born and raised in North Carolina, Loden began her career at an early age in New York City as a commercial model and chorus- line dancer. Loden became a regular sidekick on the irreverent" Ernie Kovacs Television Show" in the mid-1950s and was a lifetime member of the famed Actors Studio. She appeared in several projects directed by her second husband, Elia Kazan, including" Splendor in the Grass"( 1961). Her subsequent performance in a 1964 Broadway production of" After the Fall" earned her a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress. In 1970, Loden wrote, directed, and starred in" Wanda", a groundbreaking independent film that won the International Critics Award at the 1970 Venice Film Festival. Barbara Ann Loden( July 8, 1932 September 5, 1980) was an American actress and director of film and theater. Throughout the 1970s, she continued to work directing Off- Broadway and regional theater productions, as well as direct two short films. In 1978, Loden was diagnosed with breast cancer, of which she died two years later, aged 48. <SEP> Svetlana Vladimirovna Nemolyaeva( born 18 April 1937, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian actress of film and theatre. She is the widow of Alexander Lazarev. <SEP> He was born to a Palestinian father, Hernán Littin and a Greek mother, Cristina Cucumides. Miguel Littin directed the most popular Chilean film of all time," El Chacal de Nahueltoro"( 1969) becoming a figure of the New Latin American Cinema. Littin was exiled in México shortly after Augusto Pinochet came to power in a military coup, which ousted the democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende, on September 11, 1973. His 1973 film" The Promised Land" was entered into the Cannes Film Festival, New York film festival and the 8th Moscow International Film Festival. In México he directed several films: Then he went to Nicaragua to make Alsino and the Condor, based on the novel" Alsino" by Pedro Prado. In 1981 he was a member of the jury at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. After moving to Spain in 1984, Littin decided to enter Chile clandestinely to make a documentary that showed the condition of the country under the Pinochet regime. It was made the subject of Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez's book. He eventually returned to Chile where he continued to make films, among them" Tierra del Fuego", based on the adventures of explorer Julius Popper; and" Dawson, Isla 10", about a group of political prisoners sent to Dawson's Island during Pinochet's regime. Littin was the mayor of his home town in the center valley, Palmilla in 1992- 94 and re-elected for the period 1996- 2000. His films" Actas de Marusia" and" Alsino and the Condor" were nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Best Film in a Foreign Language. Miguel Ernesto Littin Cucumides( born 9 August 1942) is a Chilean film director, screenwriter, film producer and novelist. " Alsino and the Condor" won the Golden Prize at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival. His 2005 film" The Last Moon" was entered into the 27th Moscow International Film Festival.