Question: Do both films: Hallelujah the Hills (film) and Witness (1985 film) have the directors from the same country?

He was a leading figure in the Australian New Wave cinema movement( 1970 – 1990), with films such as the mystery drama" Picnic at Hanging Rock"( 1975), the supernatural thriller" The Last Wave"( 1977) and the historical drama" Gallipoli"( 1981). The climax of Weir's early career was the$ 6 million multi-national production" The Year of Living Dangerously"( 1983). Peter Lindsay Weir, AM( born 21 August 1944) is an Australian film director. After the success of" The Year of Living Dangerously", Weir directed a diverse group of American and international films covering most genres—many of them major box office hits —including Academy Award- nominated films such as the thriller" Witness"( 1985), the drama" Dead Poets Society"( 1989), the romantic comedy" Green Card"( 1990), the social science fiction comedy- drama" The Truman Show"( 1998) and the financially- disappointing epic historical drama( 2003). For his work on these five films, Weir personally accrued six Academy Award nominations as either a director, writer or producer. Since 2003, Weir's productivity has declined, having directed only one subsequent feature, the critically acclaimed box- office flop" The Way Back"( 2010). <SEP> The picture was his first feature film. In 1963, after screenings in the Cannes Festival Critics ’ section, the Montreal Film Festival, and the Locarno Festival, where it won the Silver Sail," Hallelujah the Hills" made its US debut at the First New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center on September 14, 1963. Hallelujah the Hills( 1963) was written, directed and edited by Adolfas Mekas. It received rave reviews and went on to a 15- week engagement at the 5th Avenue Cinema in New York, and movie theaters around the country. It is available in 16 mm and 35 mm from Anthology Film Archives and the Museum of Modern Art. <SEP> With his brother Jonas Mekas, he founded the magazine" Film Culture", as well as the Film- Makers' Cooperative and was associated with George Maciunas and the Fluxus art movement at its beginning. He made several short films, culminating in the feature" Hallelujah the Hills" in 1963, which was played at the Cannes Film Festival of that year and is now considered a classic of American film. Adolfas Mekas( 30 September 1925 – 31 May 2011) was a Lithuanian- born American filmmaker, writer, director, editor, actor and educator. <SEP> Gangster Exchange is a 2009 film written and directed by Dean Bajramovic. The film debuted at the Beverly Hills Film Festival on April 3, 2009, where it won the Audience Choice for Best Film. <SEP> Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor. He has appeared in both films and television series. <SEP> Jan Rubeš, Danny Glover, Josef Sommer, Alexander Godunov, Patti LuPone, and Viggo Mortensen appear in supporting roles. The screenplay by William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, and Earl W. Wallace focuses on a detective protecting a young Amish boy who becomes a target after he witnesses a murder in Philadelphia. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won two, for Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing. Witness is a 1985 American neo- noir crime thriller film directed by Peter Weir and starring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, and Lukas Haas. It was also nominated for seven BAFTA Awards, winning one for Maurice Jarre's score, and was also nominated for six Golden Globe Awards. William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay and the 1986 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay presented by the Mystery Writers of America. Harrison Ford was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.