Question: Do both films, She Gods of Shark Reef and Cala, My Dog!, have the directors who are from the same country?

<P0-S0> Roger William Corman( born April 5, 1926) is an American director, producer, and actor. <P0-S1> He has been called" The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. <P0-S2> Much of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of low- budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. <P0-S3> Admired by members of the French New Wave and" Cahiers du cinéma", in 1964 Corman was the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française, as well as in the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art. <P0-S4> He was the co-founder of New World Pictures, a prolific multimedia company that helped to cement Fox as a major American television network, and is a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. <P0-S5> In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award" for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers." <P0-S6> Corman mentored and gave a start to many young film directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, John Sayles, and James Cameron, and was highly influential in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. <P0-S7> He also helped to launch the careers of actors like Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, Sylvester Stallone, Diane Ladd, and William Shatner. <P0-S8> Corman has occasionally taken minor acting roles in the films of directors who started with him, including" The Silence of the Lambs The Godfather Part IIApollo 13 The Manchurian Candidate" and" Philadelphia". <P0-S9> A documentary about Corman's life and career entitled, directed by Alex Stapleton, premiered at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals in 2011. <P0-S10> The film's TV rights were picked up by A&E IndieFilms after a well- received screening at Sundance. <SEP> <P1-S0> Cala, My Dog! is a 2003 Chinese comedy film directed by Lu Xuechang. <P1-S1> The film had its world premiere at the 2003 Berlin International Film Festival and its Chinese release a week earlier on February 2, 2003. <P1-S2> The film follows a blue- collar worker( Ge You) in Beijing as he attempts to acquire a dog license in 18 hours for his beloved unlicensed Cala. <P1-S3> The film was co-produced by the successful film director Feng Xiaogang. <P1-S4> Though a comedy," Cala, My Dog!" moves at a subdued pace. <P1-S5> Despite this, during its world premiere in Berlin, sales agents from Celestial Pictures billed the film as a more zany, traditional comedy. <SEP> <P2-S0> My Dog Skip is a 2000 American family drama film, directed by Jay Russell and starring Frankie Muniz, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, and Kevin Bacon with narration by Harry Connick Jr. Based on the autobiographical novel of the same name, the film tells the story of Willie Morris as he is given a Jack Russell Terrier for his birthday, and how the dog fundamentally changes several aspects of his life. <P2-S1> " My Dog Skip" was released on March 3, 2000, by Warner Bros. <P2-S2> Family Entertainment, receiving generally positive reviews from critics. <P2-S3> The film earned more than$ 35.5 million on a$ 4.5 million budget. <SEP> <P3-S0> Lu Xuechang( June 25, 1964 – February 20, 2014) was a sixth generation Chinese film director. <P3-S1> One of a new crop of talented filmmakers, Lu directed four feature films beginning with his debut," The Making of Steel" in 1997. <P3-S2> Like many of his present- day peers, critics have seen elements of foreign filmmakers in Lu's work with Lu himself claiming to enjoy Italian cinema( although he stops short of naming specific influences). <P3-S3> Also commensurate with his peers <P3-S4> Lu had his share of run-ins with the censors. <P3-S5> " The Making of Steel", for example, was recut six times before it was allowed to be screened. <SEP> <P4-S0> Night of the Blood Beast is a 1958 American science- fiction horror film about a team of scientists who are stalked by an alien creature, which implants its embryos in an astronaut's body during a space flight. <P4-S1> Produced by exploitation filmmaker Roger Corman and his brother Gene, it was one of the first films directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and was written by first- time screenwriter Martin Varno, who was 21 years old. <P4-S2> It starred several actors who had regularly worked with Roger Corman, including Michael Emmet, Ed Nelson, Steve Dunlap, Georgianna Carter and Tyler McVey. <P4-S3> The film was theatrically released in Dec., 1958 on a double bill with" She Gods of Shark Reef". <P4-S4> It took Varno six weeks to write the script, the original working title of which was Creature from Galaxy 27. <P4-S5> The story was partially influenced by the real- life Space Race and the Howard Hawks film" The Thing from Another World"( 1951). <P4-S6> Screenwriters Jerome Bixby and Harold Jacob Smith gave Varno uncredited assistance with the dialogue. <P4-S7> With a budget of about$ 68,000, it was shot over seven days at the Charlie Chaplin Studios, Bronson Canyon and a television station on Mount Lee in Hollywood. <P4-S8> The" Blood Beast" alien costume was also previously used in the Roger Corman film" Teenage Caveman"( 1958), which was filmed just two weeks earlier. <P4-S9> Art director Daniel Haller, who built the rocket- ship and other props, slept at the sound stage between work sessions. <P4-S10> Following dissatisfaction with his treatment by the Cormans, Varno pursued two successful arbitration cases, one of which was for underpayment. <P4-S11> The other was in response to Gene Corman's original story writing credit, even though Varno claimed to have written the entire story himself. <P4-S12> The film was featured in a 1996 episode of the comedy television series," Mystery Science Theater 3000". <SEP> <P5-S0> She Gods of Shark Reef is a 1958 B-adventure film directed by Roger Corman that was partially filmed on location in Kaua'i back to back with" Thunder over Hawaii" in 1956. <P5-S1> The film was distributed in 1958 by American International Pictures as a double feature with" Night of the Blood Beast".