Question: Are the directors of both films The Guatemalan Handshake and Ah, L'Amour from the same country?

Though produced for a beginning film class, the short had a very long life at animation festivals, launching Hertzfeldt into cult status at a young age. In 1998, the short won the Grand Prize Award for" World's Funniest Cartoon" from the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. Ah, L< nowiki >' Amour</ nowiki>( 1995) is Don Hertzfeldt's first 16 mm student animated short film, completed at the age of 18 at UC Santa Barbara. The cartoon is a self- parody, told from the point of view of a" bitter filmmaker". In it, a crudely drawn male suitor is subjected to exaggerated bloody violence from all the unreasonably emotional and psychotic women he approaches, with each vignette closing as the paper physically crumples up the characters in a frustrated heap. The soundtrack is entirely guitar music, performed by Hertzfeldt on a boom box in his dorm room. <SEP> Todd Rohal is an American independent filmmaker. <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. <SEP> He is a two- time Academy Award nominee who is best known for the animated films" World of Tomorrow It's Such a Beautiful DayRejected", and" World of Tomorrow Episode Two". In 2014, his work appeared on" The Simpsons". Eight of his short films have competed at the Sundance Film Festival, a festival record. He is also the only filmmaker to have won the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize for Short Film twice. Hertzfeldt's work has been described as" some of the most influential animation ever createdsome of the most vital and expressive animation of the millennium", and" some of the most essential short films of the last 20 years". In his book" The World History of Animation", author Stephen Cavalier writes" Hertzfeldt is either a unique phenomenon or perhaps an example of a new way forward for individual animators surviving independently on their own terms ... he attracts the kind of fanatical support from the student and alternative crowds usually associated with indie rock bands". Hertzfeldt's feature film" It's Such a Beautiful Day" was listed by many film critics as one of the best films of 2012 and the L.A. Film Critics Association named it runner- up for Best Animated Feature Film of the year. After a limited UK release in 2013, the film was ranked# 3 on Time Out London's list of the 10 Best Films of 2013 and# 4 on The London Film Review's list of the same. In 2014," Time Out New York" ranked" It's Such a Beautiful Day"# 16 on its list of the" 100 Best Animated Movies Ever Made," and in 2016," The Film Stage" critics ranked the film# 1 on their list of the" The 50 Best Animated Films of the 21st Century Thus Far." In 2019," The Wrap" named" It's Such a Beautiful Day" the# 1" Best Animated Film of the 2010s." The same year, the" Vulture" film critics ranked it# 12 on their overall list of the" Best Movies of the Decade." In 2016," Rolling Stone" ranked" World of Tomorrow"# 10 on its list of the" 40 Greatest Animated Movies Ever". Despite its short running time," The A.V. Club" called it" possibly the best film of 2015." In 2019," Indiewire" ranked" World of Tomorrow"# 17 in its overall list of the" 100 Best Movies of the Decade". " World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts" premiered in 2017 and received rare" A+" reviews from" Indiewire" and" Collider", where it was described as" another soulful sci- fi masterpiece." The Daily Beast called it" a must- see animated masterpiece" and" one of the best films of the year." Hertzfeldt primarily supports his work through self- distribution such as ticket sales from theatrical tours, DVDs, VOD, and television broadcasts. Don Hertzfeldt( born August 1, 1976) is an American animator, writer, and independent filmmaker. He has refused all advertising work. Hertzfeldt lives in Austin, Texas. He spent many years in Santa Barbara, California after attending college there. He has kept a blog on his website since 1999. <SEP> It is Rohal's feature film debut. The film premiered at the 2006 Slamdance Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize. The Guatemalan Handshake is a 2006 comedy- drama film, written and directed by Todd Rohal. <SEP> The National Institute of Standards and Technology succeeded the National Bureau of Standards in 1988. Following is a list of the directors of both agencies.