Question: Are director of film The Sweet Hereafter (film) and director of film The Comedy (film) from the same country?

Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects. <SEP> Egoyan made his career breakthrough with" Exotica"( 1994), a film set primarily in and around the fictional Exotica strip club. Atom Egoyan,( born July 19, 1960) is a Canadian stage and film director, writer, and producer. Egoyan's most critically acclaimed film is the drama" The Sweet Hereafter"( 1997), for which he received two Academy Award nominations, and his biggest commercial success is the erotic thriller" Chloe"( 2009). His work often explores themes of alienation and isolation, featuring characters whose interactions are mediated through technology, bureaucracy, or other power structures. Egoyan's films often follow non-linear plot structures, in which events are placed out of sequence in order to elicit specific emotional reactions from the audience by withholding key information. In 2008, Egoyan received the Dan David Prize for" Creative Rendering of the Past". Egoyan later received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award, Canada's highest royal honour in the performing arts, in 2015. He was part of a loosely- affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in the 1980s from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave. <SEP> Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films. <SEP> The Sweet Hereafter is a 1997 Canadian drama film written and directed by Atom Egoyan, starring Ian Holm, Sarah Polley and Bruce Greenwood and adapted from the novel of the same name by Russell Banks. The film tells the story of a school bus accident in a small town that results in the deaths of numerous children. A class- action lawsuit ensues, proving divisive in the community and becoming tied with personal and family issues. The story is inspired by the 1989 Alton, Texas bus crash. It was filmed in British Columbia and Ontario, incorporating a film score with medieval music influences and references to the story of The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Although" The Sweet Hereafter" was not a box office success, it was critically acclaimed and won three awards, including the Grand Prix, at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, along with seven Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture. It also received two Academy Award nominations, for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Toronto International Film Festival critics named" The Sweet Hereafter" one of the top 10 Canadian films of all time. <SEP> Supporting actors include Eric Wareheim( Tim and Eric), James Murphy( LCD Soundsystem), and Gregg Turkington( better known as Neil Hamburger). The film premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and screened within such festivals as Maryland Film Festival 2012. The film was distributed by Tribeca Film and was slated for theatrical release on November 9, 2012 and nationwide on demand starting October 24, 2012. The Comedy is a 2012 American drama film directed and co-written by Rick Alverson, and starring Tim Heidecker. Despite the title and use of comedians as actors, Sundance festival chief programmer Trevor Groth says that the film is not a comedy, but instead" a provocation, a critique of a culture based at its core around irony and sarcasm and about ultimately how hollow that is." The film was deliberately leaked onto various torrent websites, though the file only shows the first ten minutes before abruptly cutting to Heidecker sitting silently on a boat behind a scrolling anti-piracy statement. <SEP> His films have been characterized by their confrontational nature and departure from traditional 3 act structure. Patrick James Alverson Jr.( born June 25, 1971) is an American film director, screenwriter and musician living in Richmond, VA.