Question: Do both Utu (Film) and Bikini Beach films have the directors from the same country?

Anzac Wallace, who had done little acting up until that point, takes the starring role of Te Wheke, a warrior who sets out to get vengeance after British forces kill his people. The cast also includes Bruno Lawrence and Kelly Johnson. Sometimes described as" a Maori WesternUtu" was reputed to have one of the largest budgets for a New Zealand film up until that time. The filmscreened out of competition at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, and became the second most successful local movie released in New Zealand to that date. Positive reviews in America, including a rave review from Pauline Kael, helped win Murphy directing work in Hollywood. Partly inspired by events from Te Kooti's War, the film tells of a Māori soldier setting out to get utu, or vengeance, on his former allies after the British army destroys his home village and kills his uncle. Utu is a 1983 New Zealand film directed and co-written by Geoff Murphy. The film is set in the 1870s. In 2013, partly thanks to the longtime existence of an alternative cut of the film aimed at international audiences, which Geoff Murphy had never been happy with, he completed work on a restored and recut version. " Utu Redux", as it is known, premiered at the Wellington International Film Festival on 26 July 2013. <SEP> Mark Lewis( born 1958 in Mullumbimby, Australia) is an Australian documentary film and television producer, director and writer. He is famous for his film and for his body of work on animals. Unlike many other producers of nature films, his films do not attempt to document the animals in question or their behaviors but rather the complex relationships between people and society and the animals they interact with. His films have earned him many awards, including a British Academy Award nomination, a nomination from the Directors Guild of America, two Emmy ’s for Outstanding Direction in documentary film, and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Science Program on American Television. <SEP> His second feature" Goodbye Pork Pie"( 1981) was the first New Zealand film to win major commercial success on its own soil. Murphy directed several Hollywood features during the 1990s, before returning to New Zealand as second- unit director on" The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy. Geoffrey Peter Murphy( 12 October 1938 – 3 December 2018) was a New Zealand filmmaker, producer, director, and screenwriter best known for his work during the renaissance of New Zealand cinema that began in the last half of the 1970s. Murphy was also at different times a scriptwriter, special effects technician, schoolteacher and trumpet player. He was married to Merata Mita, also a film director, actor, writer. <SEP> He was one of the most prolific early television directors, producing or directing over two dozen series. With television in its infancy, Asher introduced the sitcom" Our Miss Brooks", which was adapted from a radio show. He began directing" I Love Lucy" by 1952. William Milton Asher( August 8, 1921 – July 16, 2012) was an American television and film producer, film director, and screenwriter. In 1964, he produced and directed" Bewitched", which starred his then- wife Elizabeth Montgomery. As a result of his early success, Asher was considered an" early wunderkind of TV- land," and was hyperbolically credited in one magazine article with" inventing" the sitcom. Asher was nominated for an Emmy Award four times, winning once for directing" Bewitched" in 1966. He was also nominated for the DGA Award in 1951 for" I Love Lucy". <SEP> Pajama Party is a 1964 beach party film starring Tommy Kirk and Annette Funicello. This is the fourth in a series of seven beach films produced by American International Pictures. The other films in this series are" Beach Party"( 1963)," Muscle Beach Party"( 1964)," Bikini Beach"( 1964)," Beach Blanket Bingo"( 1965)," How to Stuff a Wild Bikini"( 1965), and" The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini"( 1966). This fourth entry has not always been considered a follow- up to the three films that preceded it. Several sources have noted, however, that while it is not a proper sequel, it is indeed a part of what is now termed AIP's ‘ Beach Party series. ’ Moreover, AIP marketed it as a sequel in its trailer, stating" The" Bikini Beach Party" Gang is Warming Up! – For the ‘ Party ’ that Takes Off – Where others Poop Out!" and" All the ‘ Beach Party ’ Fun ... in Pajamas!" Additional links that tie this film to the others are the return of Eric von Zipper and his Rat Pack( who previously appeared in" Beach Party" and" Bikini Beach") and the return of Candy Johnson as Candy for the fourth time in as many films. Regulars Frankie Avalon, Don Rickles, Annette Funicello, Jody McCrea and Donna Loren all appear( albeit with character name changes – not the first time this happens in the series, nor the last); Susan Hart makes the first of three appearances in the AIP brand of the genre; Buster Keaton makes the first of four appearances, and Bobbi Shaw makes the first appearance of five. In addition, several background players in this film( Patti Chandler, Mary Hughes, Johnny Fain, Mike Nader, Salli Sachse, Luree Holmes, Ronnie Dayton, Ed Garner, Ray Atkinson, Linda Benson, and Laura Nicholson) also appear in three or more films in the AIP brand of the genre. The film is not to be confused with the 1963 novel" Pajama Party" about lesbian activities among college girls, which was banned on the grounds of obscenity. <SEP> Bikini Beach is a 1964 American teen film directed by William Asher and starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. The film belongs to the beach party genre of movies, popular in the 1960s. This is the third in the series of seven films produced by American International Pictures( AIP).