Question: Do both films: Swayamvaram (1972 Film) and The Cormorant Scarecrow have the directors from the same country?

Born in Subotica, Ištvančić graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb in 1999. Since 2003 he has been employed at the Croatian Radiotelevision, working as a director of documentary films, educational programs, and television series and films. Ištvančić's award- winning documentary" The Cormorant Scarecrow"( 1998) has been described by Croatian film critics as one of the best Croatian documentary films of the 1990s. His feature film debut," The Ghost in the Swamp", placed 2nd among domestic films in the Croatian box office in 2006. In 2012, he created a film called" Od zrna do slike"( From Grain to Painting), about the Bunjevci Croatian straw artists, Ana Milodanović and. The film won the Gold Camera for best documentary at its Los Angeles premiere and in 2013 at the International Festival of Ethnographic Film in Romania, won Grand Prize for Best Film. Branko Ištvančić( born 1967) is a Croatian film director. <SEP> Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor. He has appeared in both films and television series. <SEP> and is regarded as one of the most notable filmmakers in India. With the release of his first feature film" Swayamvaram"( 1972), Adoor pioneered the new wave in Malayalam cinema during the 1970s. In a career spanning over five decades, Adoor has made only 12 feature films to date. His films are made in the Malayalam language and often depict the society and culture of his native state Kerala. Nearly all of his films premiered at Venice, Cannes and Toronto International Film Festival. Along with Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen, Adoor is one of the most recognized Indian film directors in world cinema. For his films, Adoor has won the National Film Award 16 times, next only to Ray and Sen. He also won the Kerala State Film Awards a record 17 times. He was awarded the State honours Padma Shri in 1984 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2006. He received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2004 for his valuable contributions to Indian cinema. The University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee have established an archive and research center, the" Adoor Gopalakrishnan Film Archive and Research Center", at their Peck School of Arts where research students will have access to 35 mm prints of the eleven feature films and several documentaries made by Adoor. Adoor Gopalakrishnan is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer. <SEP> The Cormorant Scarecrow(" Plašitelj kormorana") is a Croatian documentary film directed by Branko Ištvančić. It was released in 1998. The film has received a number of awards and is seen by many as the best Croatian documentary of the 1990s. <SEP> Notable smaller roles were played by Thikkurisi Sukumaran Nair, Adoor Bhavani, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, and Bharath Gopi. The film depicts the life of a couple — Vishwam( Madhu) and Sita( Sharada) — who have married against their parents' wishes and want to start a new life at a new place. The title is an allusion to the ancient Indian practice of a girl of marriageable age choosing a husband from among a list of suitors. " Swayamvaram" marked several debuts — directorial of Gopalakrishnan, acting of the Malayalam star Bharath Gopi, and film producing of the Chitralekha Film Cooperative, an organisation cofounded by Gopalakrishnan himself. The film features an original score by M. B. Sreenivasan, camerawork by Mankada Ravi Varma, and film editing by Ramesan. Writer- director K. P. Kumaran co-scripted the film with Gopalakrishnan. It took seven years for Gopalakrishnan to get the project rolling when his initial proposal for a loan to make a film was turned down by the Film Finance Corporation( FFC). The FFC later partially financed the film when Chitralekha provided the rest. The film received widespread critical acclaim. It pioneered the new wave cinema movement in Malayalam cinema and became one of the first Malayalam films to use synchronised sound and outdoor locales. Swayamvaram is a 1972 Indian Malayalam- language drama film co-written and directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan, starring Madhu and Sharada in the lead roles. The film also became the first Indian film to use sound as a leitmotif. It was shown at various film festivals around the world, and won four National Film Awards at the 20th National Film Awards in 1973, including Best Feature Film, Best Director for Gopalakrishnan, and Best Actress for Sharada. <SEP> Jack Shea (August 1, 1928 – April 28, 2013) was an American film and television director. He was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1997 to 2002.