Question: Are the directors of films Big Boys Gone Bananas!* and Soof both from the same country?

Bart Simpson is a Canadian producer and director of documentary and fiction films. He started his education in political science and philosophy, however quickly transferred those interests to a variety of media arts. Bart Simpson is best known for producing the feature documentary" The Corporation" with his former production company FOX in Vancouver, Canada. The film has won 26 awards and commendations, including major awards at the Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam. It is the highest- grossing domestic documentary in Canadian history, and is in the top 40 documentaries in the U.S. Simpson acted as Canadian producer on Moebius Redux featuring illustrator Jean Giraud, which won Best Film at Comicon International, and acted in the same capacity for the feature documentary" Bananas !*" with Swedish director Fredrik Gertten. The film was hit with a lawsuit from Dole Food Company in summer 2009. Subsequently, Gertten directed the film" Big Boys Gone Bananas!*", which featured the Bananas!* filmmaking team including Simpson, and told the story of their fight against Dole as a First Amendment case. It premiered in the US at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012. In 2017, Simpson premiered his film Brasília: Life After Design at the Sheffield_ Doc/ Fest. Simpson is a past National Chairperson of the Documentary Organization of Canada, and has spoken widely in Canada and abroad on documentary policy and practice. <SEP> The film is about how Gertten's film company was sued by Dole for the 2009 documentary film" Bananas!*". Big Boys Gone Bananas !* is a 2011 documentary film, directed by Fredrik Gertten. <SEP> She is notable for having directed the 2010 films" The Happy Housewife" and" Loft". Antoinette Beumer( born 1962) is a Dutch film director. <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. Nowadays, he combines filmmaking with his role as a creative producer. His films have reached an audience in more than 100 countries. Carl Fredrik( von) Gertten( born 3 April 1956 in Malmö) is an award- winning Swedish filmmaker, producer and journalist. In 2015, Aktuell Hållbarhet named Gertten as the 45 most environmentally influential person in Sweden. <SEP> 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. 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. <SEP> Soof is a 2013 Dutch comedy film directed by Antoinette Beumer.