Question: Are the directors of films The Iron Maiden and Breaking The News both from the same country?

Breaking the News is an 1887 painting by Australian artist John Longstaff. It shows the interior of a miner's cottage on the Victorian goldfields with an old man breaking the news to a woman of her husband's death in a mining accident. The woman holds an infant in her arms, and two other miners appear in the doorway, carrying the body of the husband on a stretcher. Behind them in the distance stands the mine's headframe. " Breaking the News" became etched in the popular imagination, and by the 1890s was" known by reproduction in every mining township in Australia". Painted when Longstaff was still an art student, it won him the National Gallery of Victoria Art School's first travelling scholarship in 1887. " The Argus" described it as" a vivid and accurate presentment of a familiar incident in Australian life". Only one month after the painting was first exhibited in Melbourne, eighty- one coal miners perished in a gas explosion at the Bulli Mine in New South Wales. The New Australasian Gold Mine disaster, Australia's worst below- ground gold mining disaster, occurred on 12 December 1882 in Creswick, less than twenty kilometres from Longstaff's hometown of Clunes. According to biographer Nina Murdoch, Longstaff's childhood memory of a mining fatality was the direct inspiration for" Breaking the Newsthe day at Clunes, following the tragic" cortège" from mine- head to cottage door, he had heard the stricken cry of the young wife at the sight of the stretcher- bearers' burden". Renowned Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson declared himself a" worshipper" of Longstaff after viewing" Breaking the News", and discussed the painting's sentimental and social impact at length in an 1899 essay for" The Bulletin" titled" If I Could Paint", concluding that he'd" be prouder of a picture like" Breaking the News" than of a hundred exquisite alleged studies in the" nood The following year," The Bulletin" co-founder and then- owner of" Breaking the News", J. F. Archibald, commissioned Longstaff to paint a portrait of Lawson. Archibald greatly admired the portrait, prompting him to set up a bequest for the Archibald Prize, now Australia's most prestigious prize for portraiture. Longstaff went on to win the Archibald five times. " Breaking the News" was the inspiration for a 1912 film of the same name. Directed by W. J. Lincoln and shot near Melbourne, it depicts the flooding of an underground mine and daring attempts to rescue the miners. The film was a commercial success and received favourable reviews from critics. It is now considered a lost film. " Breaking the News" was acquired by the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 1933. <SEP> Gerald Thomas( 10 December 1920 – 9 November 1993) was an English film director, best known for the long- running" Carry On" series of bawdy British film comedies. <SEP> He produced, directed and/or wrote 23 films between 1911 and 1916. Film historians Graham Shirley and Brian Adams wrote that Lincoln's films "were more like stage tableaux than films. William Joseph Lincoln (1870 – August 18, 1917) was an Australian playwright, theatre manager, film director and screenwriter in the silent era. However, with the right ingredients at their disposal the best of Lincoln's early productions were well-received". <SEP> Simona de Silvestro( born 1 September 1988) is a Swiss race car driver, currently competing in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship with Kelly Racing in the No. 78 Nissan Altima L33. She has previously driven for Amlin Andretti in the 2015/ 16 season of the FIA Formula E Championship as well as several years competing in the IndyCar Series. Her nicknames are the" Iron Maiden" and" Swiss Miss." <SEP> Breaking the News is a 1912 Australian melodrama film directed by W. J. Lincoln based on John Longstaff's 1887 painting of the same name. It is considered a lost film. <SEP> The film was directed by Gerald Thomas, and stars Michael Craig, Anne Helm, Jeff Donnell and Alan Hale, Jr. There are minor roles for" Carry On" stalwarts Jim Dale and Joan Sims, and the veteran actor Sam Kydd also appears with his then six- year- old son Jonathan Kydd. The Iron Maiden( released in the US as Swinging Maiden) is a 1962 British comedy film. The film was widely perceived as an attempt to repeat the success of the film" Genevieve", with traction engines in place of vintage cars.