Question: Are both directors of films Festival (2005 Film) and Spun from the same country?

His video for Madonna's song" Ray of Light" won a Grammy Award for Best Music Video, Short Form, and a record seven awards at 1998 MTV Video Music Awards, including the Video of the Year. In 2008 he won another Grammy Award, this time around for" Best Long Form Music Video" for another work with Madonna – directing" The Confessions Tour" DVD. In 2014 he won this Grammy Award again( that meanwhile changed the name to" Best Music Film"), this time for" Live Kisses" Paul McCartney concert film. Hans Uno Jonas Åkerlund( born 10 November 1965) is a Swedish film director, screenwriter, music video director, and drummer. Jonas Åkerlund, David Mallet and Bob Smeaton are the only directors to have won this award twice sharing the record for most wins in this category( check here all winners and nominees of Grammy Award for Best Music Film). <SEP> The film stars Jason Schwartzman, John Leguizamo, Mena Suvari, Patrick Fugit, Peter Stormare, Alexis Arquette, Deborah Harry, Rob Halford, Eric Roberts, Chloe Hunter, Nicholas Gonzalez, Brittany Murphy and Mickey Rourke. It is Åkerlund's debut as a feature film director, having already become known for his work in music videos. Spun is a 2002 American black comedy crime drama film directed by Jonas Åkerlund from an original screenplay by William De Los Santos and Creighton Vero, based on three days of De Los Santos' life in the Eugene, Oregon drug subculture. The film was shot in 22 days, and centers on various people involved in a methamphetamine drug ring. The film blends elements of dark comedy and drama in its storytelling. It s title is a reference to the slang term for the way users feel after going multiple days without sleep while on a methamphetamine binge. The characters take a combined total of 23" hits" during the course of the movie. <SEP> The general shots of the festival were filmed during the 2004 event. Festival is a 2005 British black comedy film about a number of people at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe directed by Annie Griffin. <SEP> Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris. The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors. <SEP> Griffin relocated to the UK in 1981. She started out as an experimental theatre writer and director in the 1980s, with her first notable work being Blackbeard the Pirate in 1987, at the ICA in London. In the early 1990s she worked creating animated idents for MTV. In 1993 she worked as an actress on the Oscar nominated short animated film "The Village". Through the 90's she worked on a number of short works including the "Seven Sins:Wrath" which featured Paul Kaye and David Walliams. In 1999, Griffin wrote and directed "Coming Soon",
Griffin wrote and directed The Book Group, a comedy drama which aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom between 2002 and 2003, and ran for two series. It was the winner of two BAFTA Scotland awards. In 2005, Griffin wrote and directed "Festival" a black comedy set during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Annie Griffin (born 1960 in New York City) is an American writer and director. In 2011, Griffin directed two episodes of Channel 4 comedy drama series "Fresh Meat". When the series returned in 2012, she directed episodes five to eight, and also wrote episode six. <SEP> Song of Songs is a 2005 film directed by Josh Appignanesi and written by Josh Appignanesi and Jay Basu. It stars Natalie Press and Joel Chalfen. 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.