Question: Do director of film The True Nature Of Bernadette and director of film Princess Masha share the same nationality?

In film, Leprince began as an actor in 1908 and dabbled with directing. In 1911 he moved into directing permanently and directed some 70 films between 1908 and 1929. René Leprince( 1876 – 25 May 1929) was an early French silent film director best known for his silent films of the 1910s and 1920s. <SEP> Gilles Carle, who was a key figure in the development of a commercial Québec cinema, worked as a graphic artist and writer before he joined the National Film Board of Canada in 1960. His innovative debut feature," La Vie heureuse de Léopold Z.", tracked the adventures of a snowplough operator during a madcap Christmas Eve. But after the NFB rejected several of his projects, he began working independently. In 1971 Carle joined forces with Pierre Lamy to form Les Productions Carle- Lamy, which produced Claude Jutra ’s epic" Kamouraska", Denys Arcand ’s early features and all his early films. The quirkily paced, proto-feminist" La Vraie Nature de Bernadette" – widely regarded as his best film – and" Le Mort d ’un bûcheron" eventually led to the more mainstream but graceful" Les Plouffe" and the epic love story" Maria Chapdelaine", both classics of Quebec cinema. In 1972 Carle won the Canadian Film Award for best Director for his" The True Nature of Bernadette". Carle was born in Maniwaki, Quebec. His film" 50 ans", celebrating the" 50 years" of the National Film Board of Canada, won the Short Film Palme d' Or at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. In 1990, he was awarded the Government of Quebec's Prix Albert- Tessier. In 1997, Carle received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts. In 1998, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Gilles Carle,( July 31, 1928 – November 28, 2009) was a French Canadian director, screenwriter and painter. In 2007, he was made a Grand Officer of the Ordre National du Quebec. Carle died aged 81 on November 28, 2009 of complications from Parkinson's disease at the hospital in Granby, Quebec. He is survived by his son and three daughters as well as his companion of 27 years, Chloé Sainte- Marie. Quebec Premier Jean Charest described him, at his death, as one of Quebec's most influential filmmakers. <SEP> It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 45th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. In 1984 the Toronto International Film Festival ranked the film tenth in the Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time. The film won Canadian Film Awards for Director, Actress( Micheline Lanctôt), Supporting Actor( Donald Pilon) and Musical Score. The True Nature of Bernadette is a 1972 Canadian drama film directed by Gilles Carle. <SEP> The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Mallet- Stevens. Princess Masha( French: Princesse Masha) is a 1927 French silent film directed by René Leprince and starring Claudia Victrix, Jean Toulout and Romuald Joubé. <SEP> Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre. <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.