Question: Are both directors of films Exotica (film) and High Speed (1932 film) from the same country?

Starting out as an extra in Mack Sennett's Keystone Cops series, Lederman worked his way through the ranks of film production, and first made his mark as a second-unit director. He directed several B-Western serials in the early 1930s, such as "Two-Fisted Law" and "Texas Cyclone" both 1932, in which he worked with Tim McCoy and a young John Wayne. David Ross Lederman (December 12, 1894 – August 24, 1972) was an American film director noted for his Western/action/adventure films of the 1930s and 1940s. Becoming a full feature director in the late 1930s, Lederman specialized in action films and especially westerns, continuing to produce films with McCoy at Columbia Pictures. <SEP> High- speed rail( HSR) in China consists of a network of passenger- dedicated railways designed for speeds of. It is the world's longest high speed railway network, and is also the most extensively used. China's HSR accounts for two- thirds of the world's total high- speed railway networks. In 2019, China started testing a magnetic levitation(" maglev") prototype train that runs at 600 km/ h. By 2019 December 29 10:00( UTC+ 8), HSR extended to 32(31) of the country's 34( 33) provincial- level administrative divisions, the exceptions being Macau, and Tibet, with further Ningxia and Hainan currently only have isolated high- speed lines. The national network and reached in total length, accounting for about two- thirds of the world's high- speed rail tracks in commercial service. The HSR building boom continues with the HSR network set to reach in 2025. Almost all HSR trains, track and service are owned and operated by the China Railway Corporation under the brand China Railway High-speed( CRH). The China Railway High- speed( CRH) high- speed train service was introduced in April 2007 featuring high- speed train sets called Hexie Hao and Fuxing Hao running at speed from 250 km/ h to 350 km/ h on upgraded/ dedicated high- speed track. The Beijing- Tianjin intercity rail, which opened in August 2008 and could carry high- speed trains at, was the first passenger dedicated HSR line. High- speed rail developed rapidly in China over the past 15 years with substantial funding from the Chinese government, especially the economic stimulus program during the Great Recession. The removal of Railway Minister Liu Zhijun for corruption and a fatal high- speed railway accident near Wenzhou in 2011 raised concerns about safety as well as affordability, financial sustainability and environmental impact. China's early high- speed trains were imported or built under technology transfer agreements with foreign train- makers including Alstom, Siemens, Bombardier and Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Since the initial technological support, Chinese engineers have re-designed internal train components and built indigenous trains manufactured by the state- owned CRRC Corporation. The advent of high- speed rail in China has greatly reduced travel time and has transformed Chinese society and economy. A World Bank study found" a broad range of travelers of different income levels choose HSR for its comfort, convenience, safety and punctuality." Notable HSR lines in China include the Beijing – Guangzhou high- speed railway which at is the world's longest HSR line in operation, the Beijing – Shanghai high- speed railway with the world's fastest operating conventional train services and the Shanghai Maglev, the world's first high- speed commercial magnetic levitation line, whose trains run on non-conventional track and reach a top speed of. <SEP> Exotica is a 1994 Canadian drama film set primarily in the fictional Exotica strip club in Toronto. The story concerns a father grieving over the loss of a child and obsessed with a young stripper. It was inspired by Egoyan's curiosity about the role strip clubs play in sex- obsessed societies. " Exotica" was filmed in Toronto in 1993. Marketed as an erotic thriller on its release in Canada and the United States, the film proved to be a major box office success for English Canadian cinema, and received positive reviews. It was written and directed by Atom Egoyan and stars Mia Kirshner, Elias Koteas, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood and Don McKellar. It won numerous awards, including the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and eight Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture. <SEP> High Speed is a 1932 American Pre- Code crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman. <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> 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.