Question: Are the directors of films Perfect Strangers (1950 Film) and Saw (2004 Film) both from the same country?

It is the first installment in the" Saw" franchise. In it, Elwes and Whannell portray two men who awake to find themselves chained in a large dilapidated bathroom, with one being ordered to kill the other or his family will die. The screenplay was written by Whannell, who co- created the story with Wan in their screenwriting debuts respectively. The screenplay was written in 2001, but after failed attempts to get the script produced in Wan and Whannell's home country of Australia, they were urged to travel to Los Angeles. In order to help attract producers they shot a low- budget short film of the same name from a scene out of the script. This proved successful in 2003 as producers from Evolution Entertainment were immediately attached and also formed a horror genre production label Twisted Pictures. The film was given a small budget of$ 1.2 million and shot for 18 days. " Saw" was first screened on January 19, 2004, before released in North America on October 29, 2004 by Lionsgate Films. Compared to its low budget," Saw" performed very well at the box office, grossing more than$ 100 million worldwide and becoming, at the time, one of the most profitable horror films since" Scream"( 1996). Saw is a 2004 American horror film directed by James Wan in his directorial debut and starring Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter, Michael Emerson, Ken Leung, Tobin Bell, and Leigh Whannell. The film was theatrically re-released by Lionsgate, to select theatres, on October 31, 2014 to celebrate its tenth anniversary. A sequel, titled" Saw II", was released in 2005. <SEP> Ernest Bretaigne Windust( January 20, 1906 – March 19, 1960) was a United States- based French- born theater, film, and television director. <SEP> He rose to prominence as co-creator of the "Saw" film franchise. He served as a producer on all eight films in the series, in addition to directing "Saw" (2004) and co-writing "Saw III" (2006). He also directed "Dead Silence" and "Death Sentence" (both 2007), "Insidious" (2010), "The Conjuring" and  (both 2013), "Furious 7" (2015), "The Conjuring 2" (2016), and "Aquaman" (2018). "Furious 7" and "Aquaman" each grossed over $1 billion, making Wan the eighth director with two films that have reached that milestone. James Wan (born 26 February 1977) is a Malaysian-born Australian film director, screenwriter, producer, and comic book writer. <SEP> The War of the Volcanoes( Italian original title La guerra dei vulcani) is a 2012 documentary film directed by detailing the filming of Roberto Rossellini's 1950 film" Stromboli" starring Ingrid Bergman as well as the 1950 film" Volcano" starring Anna Magnani. <SEP> The screenplay for the Warner Bros. release by Edith Sommer was based on an adaptation of the 1939 Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur play "Ladies and Gentlemen" by George Oppenheimer. This 1939 play was based on an earlier Hungarian play, "Twelve in a Box" written by . Perfect Strangers is a 1950 American comedy-drama film directed by Bretaigne Windust. <SEP> Michel Barbey( 1927) is a French stage, film, and television actor known for his comic roles. He starred in the 1950 film" Dominique".