question: Day of the Dead was written and directed by which American-Canadian filmmaker?
answer: George Andrew Romero
context: Title: John Amplas
  Passage: John Amplas (born June 23, 1949 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American actor known primarily for his work with director George A. Romero.  His first work with Romero was the cult film "Martin" (1978), in which he played the title role.  Thereafter, he has appeared in a number of other films directed by Romero, including "Dawn of the Dead" (1978), "Knightriders" (1981), "Creepshow" (1982), and "Day of the Dead" (1985), as well as "Toxic Zombies" (1980), a former video nasty, and "Midnight" (1982), directed by John Russo.  He has recently acted in a horror concept teaser entitled "The Three" (2011) directed by filmmaker Scott Goldberg which also features co-lead from "Day of the Dead" Lori Cardille.  He starred also in the feature film adaption of the Rob Steigert short film "Ombis".
  Title: Father's Day (2011 film)
  Passage: Father's Day is a 2011 American-Canadian action-horror comedy film directed by Adam Brooks, Jeremy Gillespie, Matthew Kennedy, Steven Kostanski, and Conor Sweeney.  The film stars Adam Brooks as Ahab, a man determined to exact revenge on Chris Fuchman, the Father's Day Killer, a rapist and serial killer who murdered his father years ago.
  Title: Dawn of the Dead (1978 film)
  Passage: Dawn of the Dead (also known internationally as Zombi) is a 1978 American independent zombie horror film directed by George A. Romero.  It was written by Romero in collaboration with the Italian filmmaker Dario Argento and produced by Richard P. Rubinstein.  It was the second film made in Romero's "Living Dead" series and shows in a larger scale the apocalyptic effects on society, though it contains no characters or settings from "Night of the Living Dead".  In the film, a phenomenon of unidentified origin has caused the reanimation of the dead, who prey on human flesh.  David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger, and Gaylen Ross star as survivors of the outbreak who barricade themselves inside a suburban shopping mall amid mass hysteria.
  Title: Killer Wave
  Passage: Killer Wave is a 2007 joint American-Canadian action-thriller TV mini-series, directed by Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald and written by Tedi Sarafian, George Malko, William Gray.
  Title: Day of the Dead (1985 film)
  Passage: Day of the Dead is a 1985 American horror film written and directed by George A. Romero and the third film in Romero's "Dead" series, being preceded by "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) and "Dawn of the Dead" (1978).
  Title: George A. Romero
  Passage: George Andrew Romero ( ; February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017) was an American-Canadian filmmaker, writer and editor, best known for his series of gruesome and satirical horror films about an imagined zombie apocalypse, beginning with "Night of the Living Dead" (1968), which is often considered a progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture.  Other films in the series include "Dawn of the Dead" (1978) and "Day of the Dead" (1985).  Aside from the "Dead" series, his works include "The Crazies" (1973), "Martin" (1978), "Creepshow" (1982), "Monkey Shines" (1988), "The Dark Half" (1993) and "Bruiser" (2000).  He also created and executive-produced the television series "Tales from the Darkside" (1983–1988).
citations: Day of the Dead (1985 film) George A. Romero