Question: Do both directors of films Belle (2013 film) and Bab's Matinee Idol share the same nationality?

He directed 149 silent films between 1907 and 1926. He was born in Del Norte, Colorado, and died in Hollywood, California. Searley is best remembered for directing the Thomas Edison version of" Frankenstein" in 1910. He reportedly referred to himself as" the first motion picture director", which was not accurate. He worked for a while at Edison's studio, then started his own production company, being quite successful financially, although most of his films are little known today. When critics began to regard the films of his day to be immoral, Searley became one of the founding members of the MPDA( Motion Picture Directors Association) which sought to give filmmakers who advocated good taste the power of self- censorship. James Searle Dawley( May 13, 1877 – March 30, 1949) was an American producer, director and screenwriter. <SEP> The Matinee Idol is a 1928 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Bessie Love and Johnnie Walker. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Prints are in the archives of the Cinémathèque Française and Cineteca di Bologna. The film has been restored. The Academy Film Archive preserved" The Matinee Idol" in 1997. <SEP> Her love for the film industry started when she received her first role in BBC's" Grange Hill". Later, she was given the opportunity to travel to Washington, DC, for an anti-drugs campaign, where she met former First Lady Nancy Reagan. Asante wrote and produced the 1998 BBC Two series" Brothers and Sisters", starring David Oyelowo. Amma Asante( born 13 September 1969) is a British filmmaker, screenwriter, and former actress, born in London to parents from Ghana. She was a childhood friend of model Naomi Campbell, whom she met when they were seven years old. <SEP> This was the final film in the trilogy of" Babs" films that starred Marguerite Clark. Bab's Matinee Idol is a 1917 American silent romantic comedy film, based on the Mary Roberts Rinehart novels, produced by Famous Players- Lasky, and directed by J. Searle Dawley. <SEP> It stars Gugu Mbatha- Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Penelope Wilton, Sam Reid, Matthew Goode, Emily Watson, Sarah Gadon, Tom Felton and James Norton. The film is inspired by the 1779 painting of Dido Elizabeth Belle beside her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray, at Kenwood House, which was commissioned by their great- uncle, William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, then Lord Chief Justice of England. Very little is known about the life of Dido Belle, who was born in the West Indies and was the illegitimate mixed- race daughter of Mansfield's nephew, Sir John Lindsay. She is found living in poverty by her father and entrusted to the care of Mansfield and his wife. The fictional film centres on Dido's relationship with an aspiring lawyer; it is set at a time of legal significance, as a court case is heard on what became known as the" Zong" massacre, when slaves were thrown overboard from a slave ship and the owner filed with his insurance company for the losses. Lord Mansfield rules on this case in England's Court of King's Bench in 1786, in a decision seen to contribute to the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807. Belle is a 2013 British period drama film directed by Amma Asante, written by Misan Sagay and produced by Damian Jones. <SEP> Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris. The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors.