Question: Are the directors of films Bandhanam and Nate And The Colonel both from the same country?

Nate and the Colonel is a 2003 western film that was written, directed and edited by filmmaker Paul Winters. The film also stars Winters as Colonel Ben Loftin and Ricco Ross as Nate. " Nate and the Colonel" is the first feature film to use the Native American Ojibwe language( for the first half of the film, the Native actors only speak in the Ojibwa language with English sub-titles). The film also stars Mark S. Brien and Carlos Milano. Milano also produced the film and accepted the" Best Feature Film Award" at the 2004 American Indian LA Film and TV Awards. <SEP> He is a prolific and versatile writer in modern Malayalam literature, and is one of the masters of post -Independence Indian literature. Madath Thekkepaattu Vasudevan Nair( born 9 August 1933), popularly known as MT, is an Indian author, screenplay writer and film director. He was born in Kudallur, a small village in the present day Anakkara panchayath in Pattambi Taluk, Palakkad district( Palghat), which was under the Malabar District in the Madras Presidency of the British Raj. He shot into fame at the age of 20 when, as a chemistry undergraduate, he won the prize for the best short story in Malayalam at World Short Story Competition conducted by" The New York Herald Tribune". His debut novel" NaalukettuAncestral Home"- translated to English as" The Legacy"), wrote at the age of 23, won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1958. His other novels include" ManjuMistKaalamTimeAsuravithu The Prodigal Son"- translated to English as" The Demon Seed") and" Randamoozham The Second Turn"). The deep emotional experiences of his early days have gone into the making of MT's novels. Most of his works are oriented towards the basic Malayalam family structure and culture and many of them were path- breaking in the history of Malayalam literature. His three seminal novels on life in the matriarchal family in Kerala are" NaalukettuAsuravithu", and" KaalamRandamoozham", which retells the story of the" Mahabharatha" from the point of view of Bhimasena, is widely credited as his masterpiece. M. T. Vasudevan Nair is a script writer and director of Malayalam films. He has directed seven films and written the screenplay for around 54 films. He won the National Film Award for Best Screenplay four times for:" Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha"( 1989)," Kadavu"( 1991)," Sadayam"( 1992), and" Parinayam"( 1994), which is the most by anyone in the screenplay category. He was awarded the highest literary award in India, Njnanpeedam, in 1995 for his overall contribution to Malayalam literature. In 2005, India's third highest civilian honour Padma Bhushan was awarded to him. He has won numerous other awards and recognition including Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, Vayalar Award, Vallathol Award, Ezhuthachan Award and Mathrubhumi Literary Award. He was awarded the J.C. Daniel Award for lifetime achievement in Malayalam cinema for the year 2013. He served as the editor of" Mathrubhumi Illustrated Weekly" for several years. <SEP> " Watches of the Night" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in the" Civil and Military Gazette" on March 25, 1887; in book form, first in the first Indian edition of" Plain Tales from the Hills" in 1888; and in the many subsequent editions of that collection. It is one of the" Tales" which deals with the tense, enclosed society of the British in India, and the levels of gossip and malice that could be engendered therein. " Watches of the Night," like many of Kipling's works, has a punning, allusive title. The phrase' watches of the night' has been used since at least the Book of Common Prayer( 1662), and dates back further:" the watches of the night: the night- time; watch originally each of the three or four periods of time, during which a watch or guard was kept, into which the night was divided by the Jews and Romans". The phrase occurs in the King James Bible(" Psalms"), and has also been used in several works of literature as a cliché for what is also called' the wee small hours', or' the early morning', often with connotations of blackness( both of night and of the spirits) and depression( e. g. Longfellow wrote in" The Cross of Snow"( 1879)" In the long, sleepless watches of the night"). Kipling uses this, along with a pun on the word' watches': the story turns on two identical timepieces. Both the Colonel, commanding the regiment, and a Subaltern in the Regiment, Platte, a poor man, own Waterbury watches. ( These are fob or Pocket watches, not wrist watches: Each usually hangs from a chain.) The Waterbury( from the town of Waterbury, Connecticut is a mass- produced and not especially prestigious make. The Colonel, who affects to be" a horsey man"( but is not) wears his watch, not on a chain, but on a leather strap made from the lip-strap of a horse's harness; Platte wears his from a leather guard, presumably because he can afford no better. One night the two men change- in a hurry- at the Club, and, not unnaturally, take each other's watch. They go on their separate ways. Later that night, as Platte returns home, his horse rears and upsets his cart, throwing him to the ground outside Mrs Larkyn's house, where his watch falls loose. The Colonel loses his watch, which slips on to the floor- where a native bearer finds it( and keeps it). Going home in a hired carriage, the Colonel finds the driver drunk, and returns late. His wife, who is religious( and, we have been told" manufactured the Station scandal"), is disinclined to believe him. In the morning, Mrs Larkyn, who has been a victim of the Colonel's wife scandal- mongering, finds the watch that Platte has dropped, and shows it to him. He affects to believe it is" ... disgusting! Shocking old man!". They send the Colonel's watch( which is the one Platte had been wearing) to the Colonel's wife. She attacks the Colonel, being wholly convinced of Original Sin- and begins to realise the harm and pain that unfounded suspicion can cause- and has caused her victims. That is really the moral of the story. " The mistrust and the tragedy of it," says Kipling," are killing the Colonel's Wife, and are making the Colonel wretched. <SEP> He played Colonel Ben Loftin in the film" Nate and the Colonel"( which also starred Ricco Ross as Nate). During the 1990s he co-produced Gahan Wilson's" Diner"( an animated 35 mm feature short by cartoonist Gahan Wilson) for 20th Century Fox. Winters was a co-producer on the CBS pilot" It's True"( starring Mark Hamill and Dean Stockwell). Paul Winters( born April 20, 1954 in Pennsylvania) is an American filmmaker, writer, and actor. In 2001, Winter co-executive produced( for Showtime) the pilot" The Kid"( starring Ed Asner, Lolita Davidovich, Eugene Levy, William Shatner, and Jennifer Tilly). Winters wrote and directed" Red Blood"( starring David Midthunder), and Nate and the Colonel. Training in the martial arts since age 11, Paul Winters holds many belts in a variety of martial arts systems. He has trained with Dan Inosanto, Teruyuki Okazaki, Harry Hamzy, Al Dacascos, Mark Dacascos, Robert Sandmaier, Bill Owens, Royce Gracie, Helio Gracie, Rorion Gracie, Ryron Gracie, Rener Gracie, and Rickson Gracie. Paul Winters is currently training Brazilian Jiu- Jitsu under Wellington" Megaton" Dias in Arizona. <SEP> This page lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Independent Film. This award is presented to the directors of the film. <SEP> The film stars Shobha, Sukumaran, Sankaradi and Shubha in the lead roles. The film has musical score by M. B. Sreenivasan. Bandhanam is a 1978 Indian Malayalam film, directed by M. T. Vasudevan Nair and produced by V. B. K. Menon. The film observes a young man's return from city living to the village. The film's mood is sorrowful. He leads a very wayward life and tries not to get himself attached to family ties but eventually gets drawn into the bondage of relationships and family by his step sister. The title of the film literally translates to" bondage". The title is taken from a short story of the same name by MT although the film is not an adaptation the story.