Question: Are the directors of both films I.K.U. and God'S Step Children from the same country?

Although the short- lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, Micheaux is regarded as the first major African- American feature filmmaker, a prominent producer of race film, and has been described as" the most successful African- American filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century". He produced both silent films and sound films when the industry changed to incorporate speaking actors. Oscar Devereaux Micheaux( January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an African- American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. <SEP> Cheang received a BA in History from the National Taiwan University in 1976 and an MA in Cinema Studies from New York University in 1979. Over the past decade, she has emerged as a prominent figure in new media art. Cheang is one of the leading multimedia artists dealing with multidisciplinary topics. She is regarded as a pioneering figure in internet- based art, with her multimedia approach at the interface between film, video, internet- based installation, software interaction and durational performance. Shu Lea Cheang( born April 13, 1954, Taiwan) is a multimedia artist who works in the fields of net- based installation, social interface and film production. Her work is often interactive. She is most noted for her individual approach in the realm of art and technology, creatively intermingling social issues with artistic methods. Cheang's work employs film, video, net- based installation, and interface to explore" ...ethnic stereotyping, the nature and excesses of popular media, institutional- and especially governmental- power, race relations, and sexual politics." Cheang has also written and directed feature films I.K.U. and Fluidø. She has been a member of the Paper Tiger Television collective since 1981. Though originally based in New York, Cheang is currently living and working in Paris, France. <SEP> It was marketed as" a Japanese Sci -Fi Porn Feature". The film was partially inspired by" Blade Runner"( 1982). " I.K.U."'s premise involves a futuristic corporation sending shapeshifting cyborgs out into New Tokyo to collect" orgasm data" by means of sexual intercourse. I.K.U.( pronounced" ai- kei- ju", abbreviated as" iku") is a 2001 independent film directed by Taiwanese- American experimental filmmaker Shu Lea Cheang. The title is a pun on the Japanese word which, in sexual slang, is used to express an orgasm. " I.K.U." premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. It was the first pornographic film ever screened in the festival. Critical reception was poor. <SEP> The film is inspired by a combination of elements shared from two previous released Hollywood productions:" Imitation of Life" and" These Three". God's Step Children is a 1938 American drama film directed by Oscar Micheaux and starring Jacqueline Lewis. <SEP> Matt Beckett( born 13 July 1973) is a Welsh former- professional cyclist who was born in Lancaster. He represented Wales in the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. He was briefly one of the directors of Welsh Cycling in 2006. <SEP> I Want Your Love is the title of both a 2010 short film and a 2012 feature- length film. Both films were directed and written by Travis Mathews. The drama films both revolve around the friends and ex-lovers of Jesse Metzger, a gay man in his mid-thirties who is forced to move back to his hometown from San Francisco due to financial reasons. The actors' own names, along with much of their real- life stories, were used for their characters in both films, which features graphic sexual scenes. The production of both films was aided by the gay pornographic studio NakedSword. This led to the full- length film being refused exemption from classification, which would have allowed it to screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a decision to which actor James Franco( who invited Mathews to collaborate on Franco's film" Interior. Leather Bar.") reacted negatively.