Question: Do both films: Venomous (Film) and I'Ve Heard The Mermaids Singing have the directors from the same country?

Ray is the head of Retromedia, which releases DVDs of both his own productions and archival films. He has also worked for other well- known independent studios and on a few occasions for major Hollywood studios. He is also cited as an inspiration for many independent film- makers. He loaned a 16 mm camera to Quentin Tarantino so he could make" My Best Friend's Birthday". Fred Olen Ray( born September 10, 1954) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter of more than 150 low- to- medium budget feature films in many genres, including horror, science fiction, action/ adventure, crime dramas, and holiday films. Aside from his work in the film industry, Ray was also a professional wrestler. His wrestling name was" Fabulous Freddie Valentine". <SEP> Jack Shea (August 1, 1928 – April 28, 2013) was an American film and television director. He was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1997 to 2002. <SEP> Paule Baillargeon( born July 19, 1945 in Rouyn- Noranda, Quebec) is a Canadian actress and film director. She won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film" I've Heard the Mermaids Singing", and was a nominee for Best Director for" The Sex of the Stars( Le Sexe des étoiles)". Her film roles have included" August 32nd on Earth( Un 32 août sur terre) Jesus of Montreal( Jésus de Montréal) A Woman in Transit( La Femme de l'hôtel) Réjeanne Padovani" and" Days of Darkness( L' Âge des ténèbres)". Baillargeon received a classical education at the Ursuline Convent in Quebec City and at the École Sophie- Barat in Montreal. She left the National Theatre School of Canada in 1969 without graduating and, along with Raymond Cloutier and others, founded the experimental theatre group Le Grand Cirque Ordinaire. For several years she participated in writing and performing in its collective creations, which had a marked effect on the theatre of Quebec during the late 1960s and early 1970s. " Le Grand Film ordinaire: ou Jeanne D’ Arc n’est pas morte, se porte bien, et vit au Québéc", released in 1971, is a documentary based on its first performance piece. Although the collective disbanded after its second film," Montréal Blues", Baillargeon ’s key 1980 film co-directed with Frédérique Collin," La Cuisine rouge", adapted Le Grand Cirque ’s Brechtian style to a fractured narrative about sexual stereotyping. In 2002, she directed an NFB documentary about her friend, Claude Jutra. In 2009, Baillargeon was appointed as a filmmaker in residence by the National Film Board of Canada( NFB). In 2011, the NFB released her autobiographical work" Trente tableaux", an anthology film composed of 30 filmic portraits of her 66 years of life to date, including her experiences as a woman in Quebec's changing society. She has received Quebec's two highest film honours: the Prix Albert- Tessier in 2009 and the 2012 Jutra Award for lifetime achievement. <SEP> Venomous is a 2001 disaster horror film directed by Fred Olen Ray, credited as Ed Raymond, and starring Treat Williams, Mary Page Keller and Hannes Jaenicke. <SEP> She was part of a loosely- affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in 1980s from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave. Patricia Rozema( born August 20, 1958) is a Canadian film director, writer and producer. <SEP> The title is taken from" The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot. I've Heard the Mermaids Singing is a 1987 comedy- drama film directed by Patricia Rozema and starring Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon, and Ann- Marie MacDonald.