Question: Do both A Small Down Payment On Bliss and Promised Land (2012 Film) films have the directors from the same country?

Charles William Ashworth( born August 10, 1956), known professionally as Charlie Peacock, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, record producer, session musician, and author. His albums include" Love Press Ex- CurioArc of the Circle" and" No Man's Land( 2012)". <SEP> The screenplay is written by Damon and Krasinski based on a story by Dave Eggers. " Promised Land" follows two petroleum landmen who visit a rural town in an attempt to buy drilling rights from the local residents. Damon was originally attached to direct the film, but he was replaced by Van Sant. Filming took place mainly in Pittsburgh from early to mid-2012. During filming and afterward, the film's highlighting of the resource extraction process hydraulic fracturing, known as" fracking," emerged as a topic of debate. The film had a limited release in the United States on, 2012 and followed with a nationwide expansion on, 2013. The film had its international premiere and received Special Mention Award at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2013. Promised Land is a 2012 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Frances McDormand, Rosemarie DeWitt and Hal Holbrook. It received mixed reviews from critics, although the National Board of Review named it one of the top ten films of 2012, and was a box office bomb, grossing just$ 8 million against a$ 15 million budget. <SEP> A Small Down Payment on Bliss is a 1929 German silent comedy film directed by Jaap Speyer and starring Dina Gralla, Paul Hörbiger and Imre Ráday. The film's art direction was by Willi Herrmann and Herbert O. Phillips. <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. 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. 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. He is openly gay and currently lives in Los Feliz, California. <SEP> Vladimir Dašić( born May 13, 1988) is a Montenegrin professional basketball player. He is 6'10"( 2.08 m) in height and he plays as both a small forward and a power forward. <SEP> He was married to the German actress Mia Pankau. Jaap Speyer( 1891–1952) was a Dutch film director.