Question: Do both Chicago Heights (film) and The Great Land of Small films have the directors from the same country?

The Great Land of Small is a 1986 Canadian fantasy children's film. The film starred Michael J. Anderson in one of his first roles. It was written by David Sigmund and directed by Vojtěch Jasný. The film is the 5th in the" Tales for All( Contes Pour Tous)" series of children's movies created by Les Productions la Fête. <SEP> This experimental, non-linear film is an ambitious adaptation of Sherwood Anderson ’s short story cycle," Winesburg, Ohio". Noted film critic Roger Ebert included" Chicago Heights" in his list of the Top Art Films of 2010. Chicago Heights( alternate title:" The Last Soul on a Summer Night") is a 2009 film written and directed by Daniel Nearing. <SEP> He won a Cannes Special Jury Prize for" The Cassandra Cat"( 1963). He was born in Kelč in Moravia. An active filmmaker in Czechoslovakia throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he was among many artists and intellectuals who left the country after the USSR- led invasion following the Prague Spring of 1968. Jasný worked in other European countries for several years including Austria, West Germany and Yugoslavia until relocating to Brooklyn, New York in the early 1980s. Jasný taught film directing classes at Columbia University for several years( where his compatriot Miloš Forman was also a professor and former Film Division Co- Chair) and taught at School of Visual Arts( SVA) and New York Film Academy( NYFA). Vojtěch Jasný( 30 November 1925 – 15 November 2019) was a Czech director who came to prominence in the sixties. Among others of Jasný's works is" All My Compatriots"( 1968), a story centering on the lives and fates of several rural Czechs as they struggle to adapt and survive under communist rule; a film later banned in Czechoslovakia after the invasion of 1968. He died in Přerov in November 2019, fifteen days shy of his 94th birthday. <SEP> Daniel Nearing( born December 21, 1961) is a Chicago, Illinois- based director, screenwriter, and independent filmmaker. Nearing was named the inaugural Filmmaker in Residence for the City of Chicago( Chicago Film Office, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events) and Chicagoan of the Year for Film( 2016 – 17) by the Chicago Tribune. " Hogtown", his" period- less" American film, has been called" the most original film made in Chicago about Chicago to date" and named one of the 10 Best Films of 2016 by Ben Kenigsberg, who reviewed the film for The New York Times. His earlier breakthrough film, the micro- budget production" Chicago Heights"( 2010) garnered rave reviews, especially among fans of the original source material, Sherwood Anderson's influential collection of short stories," Winesburg, Ohio", a book long thought impossible to be adapted as a film. Noted film critic Roger Ebert included" Chicago Heights" in his list of the Top Art Films of 2010. Nearing's storytelling style tends to be more circular than linear. He views plot as a veneer that ties together the more important, character- centered aspects of any story. Nearing is known for building sequences of vignettes and using powerful imagery to focus on the isolation and humility of human life. He works primarily in black and white, with moments of what he refers to as" ecstatic color" and with heavily shadowed," idiosyncratic" shot compositions. Michael Phillips of The Chicago Tribune says that" Nearing's chosen way of telling a story is poetic, elliptical and sometimes unhelpfully indirect, but if he chooses, this Canadian- born, Chicago- based filmmaker could very well become a significant and lasting talent." Ben Kenigsberg of The New York Times says Nearing" is not the most accessible filmmaker, but with his new feature and his previous one, he has carved out an original and boldly unfashionable niche." Nearing is also a professor at Governors State University in University Park, Illinois, where he is a three- time winner of faculty excellence awards and founded the MFA in Independent Film and Digital Imaging program, and is working in the development of two graduate degree paths with the David Lynch Graduate School of Cinematic Arts. <SEP> Maurino R. Richton (August 3, 1909–April 30, 1995) was an American politician and lawyer. Richton was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois. He graduated from Bloom High School in Chicago Heights, Illinois. Richon received his bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1933 and his law degree from John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois. He also studied at University of Chicago. Richton served in the United States Army during World War II. He practiced law in Chicago Heights and served as the attorney for the Chicago Heights Elementary School District No. 170. Richton served as the mayor of Chicago Heights from 1947 to 1951 and from 1963 to 1967. He then served in the Illinois House of Representatives in 1959 and 1960. Richton was a Republican. Richton died at his home in Chicago Heights, Illinois. <SEP> George F. Scully Jr.( born February 28, 1952) is an Assistant Professor of Business Law and Business Ethics in the College of Business at the University of Illinois- Chicago; he was a judge on the Illinois Circuit Court of Cook County, having been sworn in February 27, 2009, and retiring from the bench in July, 2016. Scully was a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 80th District for twelve years after defeating Flora Ciarlo in the 1996 general election. The district was located in southern Cook County, including parts of Park Forest, Olympia Fields, Flossmoor, Lansing, Lynwood, Glenwood, Beecher, University Park, and all of Chicago Heights, South Chicago Heights, Steger, Crete, and Sauk Village.