Question: Are both directors of films Maniac (2012 Film) and Daffodils (Film) from the same country?

It is a remake of the 1980 film of the same name, and follows the violent exploits of a brutal serial killer. The film is an international co-production produced by the French film companies La Petite Reine and Studio 37. Unlike the original 1980 film, which is set in New York City, writers Aja, Levasseur, and Rosenberg chose to set the film in Los Angeles. Maniac is a 2012 psychological slasher film directed by Franck Khalfoun, written by Alexandre Aja and Grégory Levasseur, and starring Elijah Wood and Nora Arnezeder. <SEP> He grew up in Leeds and in the early Eighties was a student at the University of Oxford where he was a close friend of Simon Reynolds. David Stubbs( born 13 September 1962 in London) is a British music journalist. The two were part of the Oxford- based collective that in 1984 launched the pop journal" Monitor" and then in 1986 both joined" Melody Maker" as staff writers. Stubbs remained at" Melody Maker" for a dozen years. He combined his serious writing career with writing the humorous" Talk Talk Talk" section, which featured the character of Mr Agreeable who would insult sacred cows with barrages of swear words( asterisked out to comply with IPC Media regulations). Stubbs has written, more seriously, for the now- defunct" Vox" magazine, for the" NME"( late 1990s and early 2000s), and as editor of" The WireUncut The Guardian The Times" and the football magazines" Goal" and" When Saturday Comes", where in the guise of the" Wing Commander", Stubbs covered their ill- fated World Cup campaign, followed by their failure to qualify for Euro 2008; the reports were sufficiently popular for Stubbs to augment them with further characters. He has also contributed to many of the themed special editions of" Uncut". He has written about musicians such as Jimi Hendrix and Eminem in the" Stories Behind Every Song" series. In 2009, his book on 20th century avant- garde music was published, entitled" Fear of Music: Why people get Rothko but do n't get Stockhausen"( Zero Books, Winchester: UK, 2009), which was the subject of an evening of lectures at the Tate Britain. The title may have been taken from the third studio album by Talking Heads," Fear of Music". He was among 42 who contributed essays to the bestselling" The Atheist's Guide To Christmas", which also featured Richard Dawkins, Derren Brown, David Baddiel and Charlie Brooker. In 2014, Stubbs published a comprehensive critical history of German post- psychedelic rock of the 1970s," Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany". This was followed in 2018 by a similarly large- scale study of electronic music," Mars by 1980". <SEP> Chloë Alper is a British singer- songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She began her music career in 1996 with girl punk band Period Pains, she was the singer and bassist in the British new prog rock group Pure Reason Revolution and is currently performing as half of the British rock duo Tiny Giant. Her solo release," Juno", features on the original motion picture soundtrack to Maniac( 2012 film). Another solo release," True Love", is the title track to the American supernatural horror film. <SEP> His upcoming films include the horror film" Prey" and the action- thriller film" Entry Level". Franck Ange Khalfoun( born 9 March 1968 in Paris, Île- de- France, France) is a French film director and screenwriter, known for directing" P2 Wrong Turn at TahoeManiac", and the" Amityville" franchise entry. <SEP> Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris. The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors. <SEP> It stars Rose McIver and George Mason. Based on the award- winning New Zealand stage play inspired by a true story, the film follows an indie musician who, after being told by her father on his death bed, recounts her parents ’ bittersweet romance. Daffodils is a New Zealand musical drama film directed by David Stubbs.