Question: Are both director of film End of the Road (1970 film) and director of film Bananas!* from the same country?

Aram A. Avakian( April 23, 1926 – January 17, 1987) was an Armenian- American film editor and director. His work in the latter role includes" Jazz on a Summer's Day"( 1959) and the indie film" End of the Road"( 1970). <SEP> Jason Moore( born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television. <SEP> The film was given an X rating for an abortion scene, and other frank scenes including one in which a naked man rapes a chicken. The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival. A nine- page" Life Magazine" article was published on Aram Avakian and" End of the Road" on November 7, 1969. Avakian was also interviewed at length in" Playboy" and" EsquireEnd of the Road" is a ground- breaking early indie picture. Many of the cast and crew went on to distinguished careers. The film gained a cult following at art movie houses across the U.S., where audiences would speak aloud the lines while they watched the midnight screenings. In 2012 it was released again( DVD) from a brand new original print struck from a pristine negative by Warner Brothers, as part of a series of re-discovered cinematic treasures in their archives. The director Steven Soderbergh rediscovered the film, spearheaded its revival, and made a companion documentary," An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road". End of the Road is a 1970 American comedy drama film directed, co-written, and edited by Aram Avakian and adapted from a 1958 novel by John Barth, and stars Stacy Keach, James Earl Jones and Harris Yulin. <SEP> The film was criticized by Dole for containing" patent falsehoods". After a screening at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2009, Gertten was sued for defamation by Dole on 8 July. The lawsuit was preceded by threats of legal action from Dole aimed against the LA Film Festival, which resulted in sponsors pulling support and the film being removed from competition. Dole dropped their lawsuit against Fredrik Gertten and" Bananas!*" on 15 October 2009. In September 2009, the Swedish parliament members Mats Johansson( M) and Luciano Astudillo( S) took the initiative of displaying the movie in the Parliament of Sweden, this being its premiere in Sweden. In late 2010 a court in Los Angeles decided in favor of the movie crew, making it possible to release the film in the US. A judge awarded the filmmakers nearly$ 200,000 in fees and costs. In 2011, Gertten directed the film" Big Boys Gone Bananas!*" about how the company was sued by Dole. Bananas !* is a 2009 Swedish documentary directed by Fredrik Gertten about a conflict between the Dole Food Company and banana plantation workers in Nicaragua over alleged cases of sterility caused by the pesticide DBCP. <SEP> In 2017, he was appointed as an honorary doctor at Malmö University. He is a brother to the documentary filmmaker Magnus Gertten. In 1994, he founded WG Film, a production company based in Malmö. Carl Fredrik( von) Gertten( born 3 April 1956 in Malmö) is an award- winning Swedish filmmaker, producer and journalist. Nowadays, he combines filmmaking with his role as a creative producer. His films have reached an audience in more than 100 countries. In 2015, Aktuell Hållbarhet named Gertten as the 45 most environmentally influential person in Sweden. <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.