Question: Are the directors of both films The War Tapes and Once Upon A Time...When We Were Colored from the same country?

She directed" The War Tapes", a documentary detailing the personal stories of soldiers in the Iraq War. It was the first of its kind in that she sent the soldiers video cameras so they can shoot raw footage of their actual, on hand experiences in combat. The film won several honors, including Best International Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival and Best International Documentary at BritDoc in 2006 and was shortlisted for an Oscar in 2007. Scranton also produced and directed" Bad Voodoo's War", for Frontline/ PBS and ITVS. The show first aired April 1, 2008. It reprised her virtual embed technique, focusing on a squad of U.S.soldiers deploying as part of the' Surge'. Her latest film," Earth Made Of Glass", had its world premiere at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival in World Documentary Competition. Deborah Scranton( born 1962) is an American film director. A political thriller set in Rwanda and France," Earth Made of Glass" features the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame as one of the film's main characters. " Earth Made of Glass" aired on HBO in April 2011 and was nominated as Best Documentary by the Producer's Guild of America. The film won a Peabody Award in 2012. In 2007, she was a visiting fellow at The Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University with the Global Media Project in the Global Security Program and taught a senior seminar on documentary filmmaking and social change. Scranton speaks internationally on her" virtual embed" filmmaking technique. She has spoken at conferences and institutions including TED, Nordic Media Festival, The Frontline Club, Harvard, Yale, Center For Irregular Warfare – Quantico and the Tribeca Cinema Film Series. Scranton started her career in television covering sports events including the Tour de France, the Winter Olympics, and US Open Tennis and was also a special assignment reporter. Her work has been profiled in publications including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the International Herald Tribune. A former US ski team member, she resides on a farm in the mountains of New Hampshire. She holds degrees from Brown University and Dartmouth College. <SEP> The film is the first documentary account of the 2003 invasion of Iraq to be produced by the soldiers themselves. The film( released commercially in 2006) follows three New Hampshire Army National Guard soldiers before, during, and after their deployment to Iraq about a year after the invasion. Their unit was Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 172nd Infantry Regiment( Mountain), which deployed from March 2004 to February 2005. The three soldiers with cameras featured in the film are SPC Michael Moriarty who signed up in a burst of patriotism after 9/11 and asked to be shipped to Iraq. His colleagues are SGT Stephen Pink, who joined the National Guard to help pay for college, and SGT Zack Bazzi. Two other soldiers, SGT Duncan Domey and SPC Brandon Wilkins, also filmed their entire deployments for the film. The War Tapes is a 2006 American war documentary film directed by Deborah Scranton. In all, 17 soldiers were given cameras and recorded 800 hours of tape in Iraq. Stateside interviews with the soldiers and their families made up an additional 200 hours of tape. The" cast" was narrowed to three soldiers for the final feature- length film. They were chosen in part because they were seen by the director and producers as the" main characters". The film won the prize for Best International Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival in May 2006 and also Best International Documentary at BRITDOC in July 2006. The documentary was released for sale on DVD in North America on May 15, 2007. Moreover, it is possibly the most innovative result of the embedded reporter program. In this case the reporter did not go to Iraq, but provided cameras to the soldiers, and provided direction on filming to them via instant messaging and email. <SEP> Timothy Lee Reid( born December 19, 1944) is an American actor and film director best known for his roles in prime time American television programs, such as Venus Flytrap on" WKRP in Cincinnati"( 1978 – 82), Marcel" Downtown" Brown on" Simon& Simon"( 1983 – 87), Ray Campbell on" Sister, Sister"( 1994 – 99) and William Barnett on" That'70s Show"( 2004 – 06). Reid starred in a CBS series," Frank's Place", as a professor who inherits a Louisiana restaurant. Reid is the founder and president of Legacy Media Institute, a non-profit organization" dedicated to bringing together leading professionals in the film and television industry, outstanding actors, and young men and women who wish to pursue a career in the entertainment media". <SEP> Once Upon a Time ... When We Were Colored is a 1996 film directed by Tim Reid and the screenplay was written by Paul W. Cooper, the film is based on Clifton Taulbert ’s real life and his non-fiction book" Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored". <SEP> Clifton Taulbert is an American author, business consultant and speaker. He is best known for his books" Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored" and. Taulbert offers courses in Character Education and Building Strong School Communities through Knowledge Delivery Systems, an online resource for educators Taulbert's book" Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored" was adapted into the film" Once Upon a Time ... When We Were Colored" in 1996. <SEP> Once Upon a Time in the West( lit. " Once upon a time( there was) the West") is a 1968 epic Spaghetti Western film co-written and directed by Sergio Leone. It stars Henry Fonda, cast against type, as the villain, Charles Bronson as his nemesis, Claudia Cardinale as a newly widowed homesteader, and Jason Robards as a bandit. The screenplay was written by Sergio Donati and Leone, from a story by Dario Argento, Bernardo Bertolucci and Leone. The widescreen cinematography was by Tonino Delli Colli, and the acclaimed film score was by Ennio Morricone. After directing" The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", Leone decided to retire from Westerns and desired to produce his film based on" The Hoods", which eventually became" Once Upon a Time in America". However, Leone accepted an offer from Paramount Pictures to provide access to Henry Fonda and to use a budget to produce another Western film. He recruited Bertolucci and Argento to devise the plot of the film in 1966, researching other Western films in the process. After Clint Eastwood turned down an offer to play the movie's protagonist, Bronson was offered the role. During production, Leone recruited Donati to rewrite the script due to concerns over time limitations. The original version by the director was 166 minutes( 2 hours and 46 minutes) when it was first released on 21 December 1968. This was the version that was to be shown in European cinemas and was a box office success. For the US release on 28 May 1969," Once Upon a Time in the West" was edited down to 145 minutes( 2 hours and 25 minutes) by Paramount and was a financial flop. The film is the first installment in Leone's" Once Upon a Time Trilogy", followed by" Duck, You Sucker!" and" Once Upon a Time in America", though the films do not share any characters in common. In 2009, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".