question: Are George Seaton and Apichatpong Weerasethakul both American?
answer: no
context: Title: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  Passage: "According to Thai naming customs, this person is addressed by the given name, Apichatpong, instead of the surname, Weerasethakul."
  Title: George Seaton
  Passage: George Seaton (April 17, 1911 – July 28, 1979) was an American screenwriter, playwright, film director and producer, and theatre director.
  Title: Syndromes and a Century
  Passage: Syndromes and a Century (Thai: แสงศตวรรษ "S̄æng ṣ̄atawǎat", literally "Light of the Century") is a 2006 Thai drama film written and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.  The film was among the works commissioned for Peter Sellars' New Crowned Hope festival in Vienna to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.  It premiered on August 30, 2006 at the 63rd Venice Film Festival.
  Title: Mekong Hotel
  Passage: Mekong Hotel is a 2012 Thai film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.  The film was screened in the Special Screenings section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
  Title: Mysterious Object at Noon
  Passage: Mysterious Object at Noon (Thai: ดอกฟ้าในมือมาร , or "Dokfa nai meuman", literally "Dokfa in the Devil's Hand") is a 2000 Thai independent experimental documentary film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
  Title: 2010 Cannes Film Festival
  Passage: The 63rd Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 23 May 2010, in Cannes, France.  The Cannes Film Festival, hailed as being one of the most recognized and prestigious film festivals worldwide, was founded in 1946.  It consists of having films screened in and out of competition during the festival; films screened in competition compete for the Palme d'Or award.  The award in 2010 was won by "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives", a Thai film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.  This was determined by the festival's jury members who reviewed films screened in competition.  American film director Tim Burton was the president of the jury for the international competition, and other members of the jury for that competition included actors, screenwriters and composers, such as Kate Beckinsale, Emmanuel Carrère, Benicio del Toro, and Alexandre Desplat.  Other categories for films screened in competition that have their own separate juries for other awards are for Short Films and the Un Certain Regard category.
  Title: Strand Releasing
  Passage: Strand Releasing is a theatrical distribution company founded in 1989 and is based in Culver City, California.  The company has distributed over 300 auteur-driven titles from acclaimed international and American directors such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Gregg Araki, François Ozon, Jean-Luc Godard, Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Fatih Akin, Aki Kaurismaki, Claude Miller, Manoel de Oliveira, Gaspar Noe, Andre Techine and Terence Davies.
  Title: I-San Special
  Passage: I-San Special (Thai: คืนพระจันทร์เต็มดวง , or "Kuen pra chan tem doueng", literally "Night of the Full Moon") is a 2002 Thai experimental independent drama film directed by Mingmongkol Sonakul and based on an idea by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.  Set aboard a ramshackle inter-city bus traveling from Bangkok to Isan, the audio of a Thai radio soap opera is acted out by the passengers.  However, when the bus stops, the drama of the passengers' normal lives is portrayed.  Parallels are seen between the soap opera and reality in terms of the characters' social class.
  Title: The Adventure of Iron Pussy
  Passage: The Adventure of Iron Pussy (Thai: หัวใจทรนง or "Hua jai tor ra nong" ) is a 2003 Thai musical-action-comedy film written and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Michael Shaowanasai and starring Shaowanasai.  The protagonist is a transvestite Thai secret agent whose alter ego is a gay male convenience clerk.  A homage and parody of the 1970s Thai action films, musicals and melodramas, particularly those that starred Mitr Chaibancha and Petchara Chaowarat, the movie premiered at the 2003 Tokyo International Film Festival and has also played at the Berlin Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam and other festivals.  It is a cult film and has screened at several gay and lesbian film festivals as well.
  Title: Mingmongkol Sonakul
  Passage: Mom Luang Mingmongkol Sonakul (Thai: มล.มิ่งมงคล โสณกุล , born 1971 in Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai film producer and independent film director.  As the head of her own production company, Dedicate Ltd., she has produced films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul ("Mysterious Object at Noon"); Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, including "Invisible Waves"; Pimpaka Towira's "One Night Husband" and "The Tin Mine" by Jira Maligool.
citations: Apichatpong Weerasethakul George Seaton