Question: Are director of film Banaz: A Love Story and director of film Sathi Leelavathi (1995 Film) both from the same country?

Deeyah is a two- time Emmy Award winner and the recipient of two BAFTA nominations. She has made four documentaries to date, all have been shown on ITV in the UK as part of its Exposure series. Her debut film as director and producer," Banaz A Love Story"( 2012) about the “ honour ” killing of a British- Kurdish woman won an Emmy, Peabody and received a British Royal Television Society nomination. Her second documentary,, nominated for a BAFTA, Grierson and Monte- Carlo Television Festival involved two years interviewing Islamic extremists and convicted terrorists. Her 2017 documentary was also Bafta-nominated and won an Emmy award for Best International Current Affairs Documentary in 2018 — this film saw Deeyah travel to the United States where she shadowed neo-Nazis at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. She is the founder and CEO of production company Fuuse, which specializes in documentary films, digital media platforms and content for television broadcasters and live events. She is also the founder and editor- in- chief of sister- hood Magazine which spotlights the diverse voices of women of Muslim heritage. Deeyah Khan( born 7 August 1977) is a Norwegian British documentary film director and human rights activist of Punjabi/ Pashtun descent. In 2016 Khan became the inaugural UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Artistic Freedom and Creativity. <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> The film chronicles the life and death of Banaz Mahmod, a young British- Iraqi woman of Kurdish origin killed in 2006 in South London on the orders of her family in a so- called honour killing. Banaz: A Love Story is a 2012 documentary film directed and produced by Deeyah Khan. The film received its UK premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in London September 2012. <SEP> It features Ramesh Aravind, Kalpana and Heera in the lead with Kamal Haasan and Kovai Sarala in supporting roles. Sathi Leelavathi is a 1995 Tamil language comedy film co-written and directed by Balu Mahendra. The film was produced by Kamal Haasan, with story by Ananthu and dialogues by Crazy Mohan, with Ilaiyaraaja as music composer. " Sathi Leelavathi" was a commercial success and was remade by David Dhawan in Hindi as" Biwi No.1"( 1999) and by Ramesh Aravind himself in Kannada as" Rama Shama Bhama"( 2005). <SEP> Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects. <SEP> Balanathan Benjamin Mahendran( 20 May 1939 13 February 2014), commonly known as Balu Mahendra, was a legendary cinematographer, director, screenwriter and film editor who worked predominantly in Tamil cinema. Born in a Eelam Tamil family, he developed a passion for photography and literature at a young age. After witnessing the shoot of David Lean's" The Bridge on the River Kwai"( 1957) during a school trip in Sri Lanka, he was drawn towards filmmaking. He graduated from the London University and started his career as a draughtsman with the Sri Lankan Government. Upon completion of his diploma, he entered Malayalam cinema as a cinematographer in the early 1970s. After working in over 20 films as a cinematographer, Mahendra made his directorial debut in 1977 with the Kannada film" Kokila". In 1966, he moved to India and gained admission to the Film and Television Institute of India( FTII) to pursue a course in motion picture photography. Since then, he directed over 20 films in a span of 36 years. Along with P. Bharathiraja and J. Mahendran, he is regarded as a trendsetter in Tamil cinema. During the tail end of his career, he established a film school in Chennai, which offers courses in cinematography, direction and acting. Following a brief phase of poor health, Mahendra died of cardiac arrest in February 2014. Widely regarded as an auteur, Mahendra usually scripted and edited his films apart from shooting them. He was the recipient of six National Film Awards( including two for Best Cinematography), five Filmfare Awards South and several state government awards.