Question: Do director of film Love Letters Of A Portuguese Nun and director of film The Spine (Film) have the same nationality?

Sóror Mariana Alcoforado( Santa Maria da Feira, Beja, 22 April 1640 Beja, 28 July 1723) was a Portuguese nun living in the convent of the Poor Clares( Convento de Nossa Senhora da Conceição," Convent of Our Lady of the Conception") in Beja, Portugal. Debate continues as to whether Mariana was the real Portuguese author of the" Letters of a Portuguese Nun"( comprising five letters). Her purported love affair with the French officer Noël Bouton, Marquis de Chamilly and later Marshal of France, has made Beja famous in literary circles, mainly in Portugal and France. Some literary scholars consider the letters a fictional work and their authorship is ascribed to Gabriel- Joseph de Lavergne, comte de Guilleragues( 1628 – 1684), although a real nun named Mariana Alcoforado indeed existed. In her recent book" Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a Seventeenth- Century Forbidden Love"( 2006), the author Myriam Cyr has attempted to reassert the attribution of the letters to the real Mariana Alcoforado. " For information about authorship and publication of the letters, see" Letters of a Portuguese Nun <SEP> He has made many CGI animated films since the mid-1990s, including" The EndBingo The Listener", and" Data Driven The Story Of Franz K". Chris Landreth( born August 4, 1961) is an American animator working in Canada, best known for his work on the 2004 film" Ryan". <SEP> Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects. <SEP> Jesús Franco Manera( 12 May 1930 – 2 April 2013) was a Spanish filmmaker, composer, and actor, best known for his stylish exploitation films, directing around 160 feature films. <SEP> It starred Susan Hemingway and William Berger. Franco co-wrote the screenplay with producer Dietrich. It tells the story of Maria, a girl in Inquisition- era Portugal, whom a priest sees cavorting with a boy. He orders her to become a nun as penance. Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun is a 1977 West German- Swiss film directed by Jesús Franco and produced by Erwin Dietrich, loosely based on the" Letters of a Portuguese Nun" attributed to Mariana Alcoforado. In the convent Maria gets subjected to all sorts of torture and humiliation at the hands of the priest and the mother superior. The movie is part of a genre known as" nunsploitation". <SEP> Voices for the couple were supplied by Gordon Pinsent and Alberta Watson. Landreth has explained his animation style as" a kind of surrealistic portrayal of real people and what I do with the surrealistic part is to make people's emotional, psychological and spiritual state kind of very evident on their faces and in their body so that they look … scarred in a way that reflects their history." The Spine is a 2009 animated short by Chris Landreth about a married dysfunctional couple, created in Landreth's" psycho realist" style, in which characters' mental states are reflected in their physical appearance. " The Spine" was produced by the National Film Board of Canada in association with Copperheart Animation and C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures, with the creative participation of Autodesk Canada and Seneca College's School of Communication Arts. It is Landreth's second film with Copper Heart and the NFB, having won the 2004 Academy Award for Animated Short Film and the 25th Genie Award for Best Animated Short for his previous work," Ryan.