Question: Are the directors of both films Dangerous Paradise and Syndromes and a Century from the same country?

The film was among the works commissioned for Peter Sellars' New Crowned Hope festival in Vienna to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Syndromes and a Century(" S̄æng ṣ̄atawǎat", literally" Light of the Century") is a 2006 Thai drama film written and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. It premiered on August 30, 2006 at the 63rd Venice Film Festival. The film is a tribute to the director's parents and is divided into two parts, with the characters and dialogue in the second half essentially the same as the first, but the settings and outcome of the stories different. The first part is set in a hospital in rural Thailand, while the second half is set in a Bangkok medical center. " The film is about transformation, about how people transform themselves for the better", Apichatpong said in an interview. In Thailand," Syndromes and a Century" became controversial after the Board of Censors demanded that four scenes be cut in order for the film to be shown commercially. The director refused to cut the film and withdrew it from domestic release. Since then, the director had agreed to a limited showing in Thailand where the cut scenes were replaced with a black screen to protest and inform the public about the issues of censorship. <SEP> Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul (IPA:; born 16 July 1970) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, Weerasethakul has directed several features and dozens of short films. His feature films include "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives", winner of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or prize; "Tropical Malady", which won a jury prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival; "Blissfully Yours", which won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival; "Syndromes and a Century", which premiered at the 63rd Venice Film Festival and was the first Thai film to be entered in competition there; and "Cemetery of Splendour", which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim. Weerasethakul has received numerous additional accolades, including the 2016 Principal Prince Claus Award and the eighth edition of the Artes Mundi Prize <ref> <SEP> Dangerous Paradise is a 1930 American Pre-Code drama film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen and Warner Oland. The film is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1915 novel" Victory", with the significant change of a happy ending introduced to the plot which acknowledged a similar change made in the 1919 silent film" Victory" directed by Maurice Tourneur. As was common in the early years of sound," Dangerous Paradise" was remade in several different languages by Paramount at the Joinville Studios in Paris. <SEP> __notoc__ Lee Chatametikool is a Thai film editor and sound editor. He is a frequent collaborator with Apichatpong Weerasethakul and other Thai independent directors, but has also worked on commercial films, including the hit Thai horror film," Shutter". Lee studied filmmaking in the United States. He has been active since 1999, when he directed a short film," Miami Strips, Hollywood DreamsMuang maya, krung tida"). The film was the runner- up winner of the Rattana Pestonji Award for Best Thai Short Film at the 2000 Thai Short Film and Video Festival. He has worked with Apichatpong Weerasethakul on four films:" Blissfully YoursTropical MaladySyndromes and a Century" and" Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives". At the inaugural Asian Film Awards in 2007 in Hong Kong, Lee won the Best Editor award for" Syndromes and a Century". In 2002, Lee founded his own post-production company, Houdini Studio. <SEP> He also directed several well- regarded satirical comedies. Beginning his film career as an actor, he went on to direct over 80 films, at times co-credited as producer and consultant. In 1927, Wellman famously directed" Wings", which became the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture at the 1st Academy Awards ceremony. He also won the Academy Award for Best Story for his film" A Star Is Born". William Augustus Wellman( February 29, 1896 – December 9, 1975) was an American film director notable for his work in crime, adventure and action genre films, often focusing on aviation themes, a particular passion. <SEP> I Want Your Love is the title of both a 2010 short film and a 2012 feature- length film. Both films were directed and written by Travis Mathews. The drama films both revolve around the friends and ex-lovers of Jesse Metzger, a gay man in his mid-thirties who is forced to move back to his hometown from San Francisco due to financial reasons. The actors' own names, along with much of their real- life stories, were used for their characters in both films, which features graphic sexual scenes. The production of both films was aided by the gay pornographic studio NakedSword. This led to the full- length film being refused exemption from classification, which would have allowed it to screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a decision to which actor James Franco( who invited Mathews to collaborate on Franco's film" Interior. Leather Bar.") reacted negatively.