Question: Do director of film Song Of Songs (2005 Film) and director of film The Sheltering Sky (Film) have the same nationality?

Appignanesi is best known for the feature film" Song of Songs"( 2006), starring Natalie Press, which he directed, co-wrote and co-produced. The film won several awards including a special commendation for Best British Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival. Made on a tiny budget, the film is a dark study of the intense relationship between a brother and highly religious sister in London's orthodox Jewish community. Josh Appignanesi( born 1975) is a British film director, producer, and screenwriter. The film had a small, arthouse UK release but received critical acclaim;" The Observer" said it" reveals a distinctive and bold new voice in British cinema." He recently directed and script edited the comedy feature film" The Infidel", written by David Baddiel and starring Omid Djalili, Richard Schiff, Archie Panjabi, Amit Shah and Yigal Naor. Produced by Arvind David at Slingshot, the film follows the adventures of a British Muslim everyman( Djalili) who discovers he was born Jewish. The film was released internationally in Spring 2010, in the UK with distributor Revolver Entertainment. He has written and directed several short films, most notably" Ex Memoria"( 2006) which also stars Natalie Press as well as Sara Kestelman in a study of a woman with Alzheimer's disease, funded by the Wellcome Trust; and" Nine 1/2 Minutes"( 2003), a romantic comedy starring David Tennant. He lives in London and studied anthropology at King's College, Cambridge, where he was a contemporary and close friend of the novelist Zadie Smith. He is the son of writers Lisa Appignanesi and Richard Appignanesi. <SEP> It stars Natalie Press and Joel Chalfen. Song of Songs is a 2005 film directed by Josh Appignanesi and written by Josh Appignanesi and Jay Basu. Press plays a devoutly orthodox Jewish young woman who tries to bring her estranged, secular brother back into the fold. Made in the UK, it was released there in February 2006 after winning a special commendation for Best British Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2005 and a nomination for the Tiger Awards at the International Film Festival Rotterdam( 2006). The film was produced by Gayle Griffiths who won the Alfred Dunhill UK Talent Film Award at the London Film Festival 2005 for the production. <SEP> Bernardo Bertolucci( 16 March 1941 – 26 November 2018) was an Italian director and screenwriter, whose films include" The ConformistLast Tango in Paris 1900 The Last Emperor"( for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay)," The Sheltering SkyLittle BuddhaStealing Beauty" and" The Dreamers." In recognition of his work, he was presented with the inaugural Honorary Palme d' Or Award at the opening ceremony of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. From 1979 until his death in 2018, he was married to screenwriter Clare Peploe. <SEP> Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films. <SEP> The film is based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Paul Bowles( who appears in a cameo role) about a couple who journey to northern Africa in the hopes of rekindling their marriage but soon fall prey to the dangers that surround them. The Sheltering Sky is a 1990 British drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci starring Debra Winger and John Malkovich. <SEP> Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.