Question: Are the directors of films Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and Yoga Hosers both from the same country?

He is best known for films such as" Eraserhead"( 1977)," Blue Velvet"( 1986) and" Mulholland Drive"( 2001), often regarded by critics as among the best films of their respective decades, and for his successful 1990 – 91 television series" Twin Peaks", which led to him being labeled" the first popular Surrealist" by noted film critic Pauline Kael. A recipient of an Academy Honorary Award in 2019, he has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, and has won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. He has been described by" The Guardian" as" the most important director of this era", while All Movie called him" the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking". Born to a middle- class family in Missoula, Montana, Lynch spent his childhood traveling around the United States before he studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he first made the transition to producing short films. He moved to Los Angeles, where he produced his first motion picture, the surrealist horror film" Eraserhead"( 1977). David Keith Lynch( born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, musician, actor, and photographer. After" Eraserhead" became a success on the midnight movie circuit, Lynch was employed to direct the biographical film" The Elephant Man"( 1980), from which he gained mainstream success. He was then employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group and proceeded to make two films: the science- fiction epic" Dune"( 1984), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo- noir mystery film" Blue Velvet"( 1986), which stirred controversy over its violence but later grew in critical reputation. Next, Lynch created his own television series with Mark Frost, the popular murder mystery entitled" Twin Peaks"( 1990 – 1991). He also created a cinematic prequel,( 1992), a road film" Wild at Heart"( 1990) and a family film" The Straight Story"( 1999) in the same period. Turning further towards surrealist filmmaking, three of his subsequent films operated on dream logic non-linear narrative structures:" Lost Highway"( 1997)," Mulholland Drive"( 2001), and" Inland Empire"( 2006). Meanwhile, Lynch embraced the Internet as a medium, producing several web- based shows, such as the animated" DumbLand"( 2002) and the surreal sitcom" Rabbits"( 2002). Lynch and Frost reunited for a third season of" Twin Peaks", airing in on Showtime in 2017. Lynch co-wrote and directed every episode, as well as reprising his role as Gordon Cole. Lynch's other artistic endeavours include: his work as a musician, encompassing three studio albums—" Blue BOB"( 2001)," Crazy Clown Time"( 2011) and" The Big Dream"( 2013) —as well as music and sound design for a variety of his films; painting and photography; writing three books —" Images"( 1994)," Catching the Big Fish"( 2006), and" Room to Dream"( 2018); and directing several music videos and advertisements, including the Dior promotional film" Lady Blue Shanghai"( 2006). An avid practitioner of Transcendental Meditation( TM), Lynch founded the David Lynch Foundation in 2005, which sought to fund the teaching of TM in schools and has since widened its scope to other at-risk populations, including the homeless, veterans and refugees. In 2019, he received an Academy Honorary Award; his first Oscar win. <SEP> He came to prominence with the low- budget comedy film" Clerks"( 1994), which he wrote, directed, co-produced, and acted in as the character Silent Bob of stoner duo Jay and Silent Bob. Jay and Silent Bob have appeared in Smith's follow- up films" Mallrats Chasing AmyDogmaJay and Silent Bob Strike Back" and" Clerks II", which were set primarily in his home state of New Jersey. While not strictly sequential, the films frequently featured crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon described by fans as the" View Askewniverse", named after his production company View Askew Productions, which he co-founded with Scott Mosier. Kevin Patrick Smith( born August 2, 1970) is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, public speaker, comic book writer, author, and podcaster. Since 2011, Smith has mostly made films in the horror genre, including" Red State"( 2011) and the comedy horror films" Tusk"( 2014) and" Yoga Hosers"( 2016), two in a planned series of three such films set in Canada dubbed the" True North" trilogy. He has also served as a director- for- hire for material he did not write, including the buddy cop action comedy" Cop Out"( 2010) and various television series episodes. In 2019, he wrote and directed" Jay and Silent Bob Reboot", a follow- up to the original Jay and Silent Bob movies. Smith is the owner of Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, a comic book store in Red Bank, New Jersey that is the subject of the reality television show" Comic Book Men"( 2012–2018). He also hosts the movie- review television show" Spoilers". As a podcaster, Smith co-hosts several shows on his own SModcast Podcast Network, including" SModcastFatman Beyond", and the live show" Hollywood Babble- On". Smith is well known for participating in long, humorous Q&A sessions that are often filmed for DVD release, beginning with" An Evening with Kevin Smith". <SEP> It is a spin- off of Smith's 2014 horror film" Tusk", and stars Lily- Rose Depp and Smith's daughter Harley Quinn Smith, alongside Depp's father Johnny Depp. The film is the second in Smith's" True North" trilogy itself a spin- off of the View Askewniverse, and had its world premiere on January 24 at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. The film was released on September 2, 2016 by Invincible Pictures. It was a commercial failure and was universally panned by critics and audiences, who considered it a low point in Smith's career, despite admiration from long time fans. Jennifer Schwalbach Smith reprises her role as Missy" Miss" McKenzie from" Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back". Yoga Hosers is a 2016 American horror comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith. <SEP> Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces is a 2014 feature- length compilation of deleted and extended scenes from directed by David Lynch and written by Lynch and Robert Engels. Several scenes from" Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" were left unused, to keep the movie at a two- hour and fifteen minute running time. This film comprises the unused footage from, piecing together all of the deleted scenes to make a feature- length film, featuring the cast of the original film including Sheryl Lee, Moira Kelly, David Bowie, Chris Isaak, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Wise, Kyle MacLachlan, and Mädchen Amick. Due to the expanded content, this film shows a closer look into investigation into the murder of Teresa Banks( Pamela Gidley), expands on the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer( Sheryl Lee), a popular high school student in the fictional Washington town of Twin Peaks, and has scenes that feature characters from the television series that were excluded from" Fire Walk with Me" such as Josie Packard( Joan Chen), Ed Hurley( Everett McGill), and Nadine Hurley( Wendy Robie). <SEP> Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with It serves as a prequel to the television series" Twin Peaks"( 1990 – 1991), created by Mark Frost and Lynch, who were also executive producers. The film revolves around the investigation into the murder of Teresa Banks( Pamela Gidley) and the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer( Sheryl Lee), a popular high school student in the fictional Washington town of Twin Peaks. Me is a 1992 psychological horror film directed by David Lynch and written by Lynch and Robert Engels. The title comes from a poem recited by MIKE and Leland Palmer in the television series:< poem> Through the darkness of future's past, The magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds ... " Fire ... walk with me."</ poem> Most of the television cast reprised their roles for the film, though the majority of their scenes ended up being cut and were later restored in. A few notable cast members including Lara Flynn Boyle, Sherilyn Fenn, and Richard Beymer did not reprise their roles due to scheduling conflicts. Boyle's character Donna Hayward was instead recast with Moira Kelly. Kyle MacLachlan, who starred as Special Agent Dale Cooper in the series, was reluctant to return out of fear of getting typecast, which resulted in a smaller presence in the film than originally planned. " Fire Walk with Me" initially received negative reviews in the United States but has been met with a more positive reception in subsequent years, with some critics viewing it as one of Lynch's major works. Although it has long been reported that" Fire Walk with Me" was greeted at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival with booing and jeers from the audience, co-writer Robert Engels denies that this event ever happened. The film was a box office bomb in the United States, although it fared much better in Japan. <SEP> Harley Quinn Smith (born June 26, 1999) is an American actress and musician. Smith has appeared in the film "Tusk" and starred in its spin-off "Yoga Hosers", both written and directed by her father, filmmaker Kevin Smith. She is also the bass player and one of the singers in the bubblegum punk band The Tenth.