Question: Are director of film Jalpari: The Desert Mermaid and director of film Ashwamedha (Film) from the same country?

The Desert Mermaid is a 2012 Indian film directed by Nila Madhab Panda. Jalpari: Like I Am Kalam it is also a children's cinema where Lehar Khan, Krishang Trivedi and Harsh Mayar( who won the National Film Awards for the best child artist in 2010) are on lead as child artists and Parvin Dabas, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Rahul Singh, Suhasini Mulay and V.M. Badola are on supporting roles. The movie centered on the issue of female foeticide is an adventure film, which is screened at Marche du Cannes film festival. The movie has been nominated at the prestigious Asia Pacific Screen Awards( APSA). The sixth APSA ceremony will be organised at Queensland, Australia on 23 November 2012. The movie has been sent to the Academy of Motion Pictures as a direct entry for the Oscar Awards in the foreign film category. Recently the film received the prestigious Audience Choice Award in Minsk International Film Festival in Belarus& selected as an official entry for International Film Festival in Montreal which will take place in March 2013. The film also won MIP Junior Kids Jury Award at Cannes in October 2012. <SEP> Nila Madhab Panda( born 18 October 1973) is a film producer. These films are based on important social issues such as climate change, child labor, education, water issues, sanitation and many other developmental issues in India. Panda has produced and directed over 70 diverse and cutting edge films, documentaries and shorts. His films have won him several awards and critical acclaim. Most of his films have unique insights drawn from his own life, the metaphorical distance that he has traversed from a small obscure village based in one of the remotest parts of India, to metropolitan cities across the globe. His films are entertaining, yet portray profusely socially relevant themes; driving home the point that films can be a powerful medium of positive social change. <SEP> He was best known for his work in Kannada films and for his work in stage shows. Starting his career in Prabhat Kalavidaru, a famous theatre group based in Bangalore, he acted in numerous Kannada plays which reached the cult status. He started his own theatre group called" Nataranga" in 1972 and directed many successful plays such as" Kakana KoteThughlaq" and" Sankranthi". Simha also directed and acted in the Kannada adaptation of Shakespeare's" Midsummer Night's Dream" and" Othello". These plays found a widespread presentation across many states in India. Channapatna Ramaswami Simha( 16 June 1942 – 28 February 2014), better known as C. R. Simha, was an Indian actor, director, dramatist and playwright. Following this, he directed and acted in many English plays written by eminent personalities such as Moliere, Bernard Shaw, Edward Albee and Neil Simon among others. Apart from theatre, Simha acted in more than 150 feature films in Kannada which include both artistic and commercially viable projects. He also directed about five feature films with the most prominent being his own film adaptation of" Kakana Kote". Simha received many awards in both the cinema and theatre fields. In 2003, he was awarded with the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi Award by the Government of India recognising his contribution to theatre acting and direction. <SEP> It stars Kumar Bangarappa and Geethanjali in the lead roles. H Ashwamedha is a 1990 Indian Kannada language film directed by C. R. Simha. <SEP> Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects. <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.