Question: Are director of film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and director of film Restless (2011 Film) both from the same country?

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a 2003 American slasher film directed by Marcus Nispel, written by Scott Kosar, and starring Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, Eric Balfour and R. Lee Ermey. It s plot follows a group of young adults traveling through rural Texas who encounter Leatherface and his murderous family. It is a remake of Tobe Hooper's 1974 film of the same name, and the fifth installment in" The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" franchise. Several crew members of the original film were involved with the project: Hooper and writer Kim Henkel served as co-producers; Daniel Pearl returned as cinematographer; and John Larroquette reprised his voice narration for the opening intertitles. The film was released in the United States on October 17, 2003, and grossed$ 107 million at the U.S. box office. It is considered one of the most commercially successful horror film remakes of the 21st century, despite receiving mixed- negative reviews. A prequel was released in 2006, titled. " The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" was the first film to be produced by Platinum Dunes, who would go on to produce remakes of several other 20th- century horror films. <SEP> The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is a 2006 American slasher film and a prequel to the 2003 film" The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". The film's story takes place four years before the timeline of the 2003 film. It stars Jordana Brewster, Diora Baird, Taylor Handley, Matt Bomer and R. Lee Ermey. Originally, the film had the subtitle" The Origin". New Line had to pay$ 3.1 million more than expected in order to keep the rights to the franchise after Dimension Films made a large offer to buy it from the original right- holders. " The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning" went into release in North America on October 6, 2006, by New Line Cinema. The film received negative reviews from critics and grossed$ 51.8 million on a budget of$ 16 million. The sixth installment in" The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" franchise was directed by Jonathan Liebesman and co-produced by Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper( co- creators of the original 1974 film). <SEP> Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation( originally The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre) is a 1995 American slasher film written and directed by Kim Henkel, and starring Renée Zellweger, Matthew McConaughey, and Robert Jacks as Leatherface. The plot follows four teenagers who encounter Leatherface and his murderous family in backwoods Texas on the night of their prom. It is the fourth installment in the" Texas Chainsaw Massacre" series, and also features uncredited cameo appearances from Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, and John Dugan, all stars of the original film. Writer- director Kim Henkel had previously co-written the original" The Texas Chain Saw Massacre"( 1974) with Tobe Hooper; the events of the previous two sequel films are addressed in" The Next Generation" s opening prologue as" two minor, yet apparently related incidents" which happened after the events of the original film, though no explanation is given for how Leatherface survived his apparent offscreen death at the end of the second film. " Next Generation" was shot on location in rural areas outside of Austin, Texas in the summer of 1994. The film was screened as" The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre" in 1995 before being shelved by Columbia Pictures. Two years later, it was re-cut and released under the title" Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation" on August 29, 1997, after Zellweger and McConaughey had both become major Hollywood stars, but was a critical and financial failure. Though a full soundtrack was never released, a companion single featured in the film performed by star Robert Jacks and Debbie Harry was released on compact disc in 1997. This was the final installment in the original series, with the next entry being a remake of the original film. <SEP> Jonathan Liebesman( born 15 September 1976) is a South African film director and writer. <SEP> Restless is a 2011 American romantic drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Jason Lew. It stars Henry Hopper and Mia Wasikowska. Shot in Portland, Oregon, United States, and produced by Bryce Dallas Howard, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer for Sony Pictures Classics and Imagine Entertainment, it was released on September 16, 2011. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival on May 12. <SEP> His films typically deal with themes of marginalized subcultures, in particular homosexuality; as such, Van Sant is considered one of the most prominent auteurs of the New Queer Cinema movement. Van Sant's early career was devoted to directing television commercials in the Pacific Northwest. He made his feature-length cinematic directorial debut with "Mala Noche" (1985). His second feature "Drugstore Cowboy" (1989) was highly acclaimed, and earned Van Sant screenwriting awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and New York Film Critics Circle and the award for Best Director from the National Society of Film Critics. His following film, "My Own Private Idaho" (1991), was similarly praised, as was the black comedy "To Die For" (1995), the drama "Good Will Hunting" (1997), and the biographical film "Milk" (2008); for the latter two, Van Sant was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and both films received Best Picture nominations. In 2003, Van Sant's film about the Columbine High School massacre, "Elephant", won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Van Sant also received the festival's Best Director Award that same year, making him one of only two filmmakers—the other being Joel Coen—to win both accolades at the festival in the same year. Though most of Van Sant's other films received favourable reviews, such as "Finding Forrester" (2000) and "Paranoid Park" (2007), some of his efforts, such as the art house production "Last Days" (2005) and the environmental drama "Promised Land" (2012), have received more mixed reviews from critics, while his adaptation of Tom Robbins's "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" (1994), his 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho", and "The Sea of Trees" (2015), were critical and commercial failures. In addition to directing, Van Sant has written the screenplays for several of his earlier works, and is the author of a novel entitled "Pink". A book of his photography, called "108 Portraits", has also been published, and he has released two musical albums. Gus Green Van Sant Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American film director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician, and author who has earned acclaim as both an independent and mainstream filmmaker. He is openly gay and currently lives in Los Feliz, California.