Question: Do director of film Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and director of film Never A Backward Step share the same nationality?

Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre. <SEP> " Fields of Sacrifice"( 1964) is considered Brittain's first major film as director. His other notable directorial credits include the 1964 feature documentary" Bethune", 1965 documentaries" Ladies and Gentlemen ... Mr. Leonard Cohen" and" Memorandum" and the Genie Award- winning 1979 documentary. He also directed the first- ever IMAX film," Tiger Child" for Expo'70, and" Earthwatch", a 70 mm film for Expo 86. He wrote the 1975 Oscar- nominated short documentary" Whistling Smith". He co-directed the 1976 feature documentary which garnered 6 Canadian Film Awards and an Academy Award nomination. Brittain also directed the three- part CBC- coproduced series" The Champions", chronicling the lives and battles of Canadian political titans René Lévesque and Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Donald Brittain,( June 10, 1928 – July 21, 1989) was a film director and producer with the National Film Board of Canada. His most ambitious project was" The King Chronicle", a three- part 1987- 88 television series about the remarkable career of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. He won the Gemini Award for best screenplay and direction for the 1985 drama. As NFB producer, Brittain's credits included Arthur Lipsett's" A Trip Down Memory Lane." Often a narrator of his own documentaries, Brittain also lent his voice to the animated mockumentary" What on Earth!" <SEP> Jacob" Jake" Kasdan( born October 28, 1974) is an American film and television director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> Walk Hard: It stars John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, Tim Meadows and Kristen Wiig. The plot echoes the storyline of 2005's Johnny Cash biopic" Walk the Line" and 2004's Ray Charles biopic" RayWalk Hard" is a parody of the biopic genre as a whole. The Dewey Cox Story is a 2007 American comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan, and written by Kasdan and co-producer Judd Apatow. As" Walk Hard" heavily references the film" Walk the Line", the Dewey Cox persona is mostly based on Johnny Cash; but the character also includes elements of the lives and careers of Roy Orbison, Glen Campbell, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, Donovan, John Lennon, James Brown, Jim Morrison, Conway Twitty, Neil Diamond, Hank Williams, and Brian Wilson. The film portrays fictional versions of artists Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles; also, some artists play themselves, including Eddie Vedder and Ghostface Killah. In addition, the film parodies or pays tribute to the musical styles of Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Billy Joel, Van Dyke Parks with Brian Wilson, and seventies punk rock. The film was released in North America on December 21, 2007. It received positive reviews from critics, but was a box office bomb- grossing only$ 20 million against a$ 35 million budget. The film has since developed a cult following. <SEP> Never a Backward Step is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Donald Brittain, Arthur Hammond and John Spotton, and released in 1966. A profile of Canadian press magnate Roy Thomson, the film won the Canadian Film Award for Best Feature Length Documentary in 1968.