Information: - Gordon Quinn is Artistic Director and founding member of Kartemquin Films and a 2007 recipient of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. Gordon Quinn has been making documentaries for over 45 years and has produced or directed over 30 films. His recent directing credits include "Prisoner of Her Past" and "A Good Man". His producing credits include the films "Hoop Dreams"; "In the Family";"Vietnam, Long Time Coming"; "Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes"; "5 Girls"; "Refrigerator Mothers"; and "Stevie". Most recently, Gordon executive produced "" and "The New Americans", for which he directed the Palestinian segment. Currently, he is executive producing several new films for Kartemquin. Gordon has been a long-time supporter of public media and community-based independent media groups, and served on the boards of several organizations including the National Coalition of Public Broadcast Producers, the Citizens Committee on the Media, the Chicago Access Corporation, the Illinois Humanities Council, the Public Square Advisory Committee and the Illinois Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. - Hoop Dreams is a 1994 American documentary film directed by Steve James and written by James and Frederick Marx, with Kartemquin Films. It follows the story of two African-American high school students in Chicago and their dream of becoming professional basketball players. - Gregory James "Greg" LeMond (born June 26, 1961) is an American former professional road racing cyclist who won the Road Race World Championship twice (1983 and 1989) and the Tour de France three times (1986, 1989 and 1990). He is also an entrepreneur and anti-doping advocate. LeMond was born in Lakewood, California, and raised in ranch country on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, near Reno. He is married and has three children with his wife Kathy, with whom he supports a variety of charitable causes and organizations. - George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He is the eldest son of Barbara and George H. W. Bush. After graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, he worked in oil businesses. Bush married Laura Welch in 1977 and ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives shortly thereafter. He later co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before defeating Ann Richards in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election. Bush was elected president in 2000 after a close and controversial election against Al Gore, becoming the fourth president to be elected while receiving fewer popular votes nationwide than an opponent. He is the second president to have been a son of a former president, the first having been John Quincy Adams. He is also a brother of Jeb Bush, a former Governor of Florida and candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2016 presidential election. - Vietnam , Long Time Coming is a documentary released in 1998 by Kartemquin Films . The film follows a 16 - day , 1100 mile bicycle expedition through once war - torn Northern and Southern Vietnam that was organized by World T.E.A.M. Sports . The event drew an array of veterans from the U.S. and Vietnam , as well as celebrity riders like Greg LeMond and Senator John Kerry . Those without use of their legs used special hand - powered bikes , while blind riders pedaled from the back of tandem bikes . Past enemies ride as one team in peace across a landscape they once killed to stay alive on . Winner of Outstanding Directorial Achievement at the 1998 Directors Guild Awards , as well as Outstanding Program Achievement at the 1998 Emmy Awards , Vietnam , Long Time Coming won multiple national awards . The film 's soundtrack featured such artists as Bruce Springsteen , Emmylou Harris , and Shawn Colvin . A portion of the proceeds went to groups promoting medical and educational programs in Vietnam . - Kartemquin Films is a 501(c)3 non-profit production company located in Chicago, Illinois, that produces a wide range of documentary films. It is the documentary filmmaking home of acclaimed producers such as Gordon Quinn ("A Good Man"), Steve James ("Hoop Dreams"), Maria Finitzo (""; "In the Game"), Joanna Rudnick ("In the Family"), Bill Siegel ("The Trials of Muhammad Ali"), and Aaron Wickenden (Almost There). - John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American diplomat and politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A Democrat, he previously served in the United States Senate, where he was chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing narrowly to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. 'vietnam' is related to which object entity through the relation of 'director'? Choices: - barbara - gordon quinn - steve james - variety
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Information: - A writer is a person who uses written words in various styles and techniques to communicate their ideas. Writers produce various forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, poetry, plays, screenplays, and essays as well as various reports and news articles that may be of interest to the public. Writers' texts are published across a range of media. Skilled writers who are able to use language to express ideas well often contribute significantly to the cultural content of a society. The word is also used elsewhere in the arts such as songwriter but as a standalone term, "writer" normally refers to the creation of written language. Some writers work from an oral tradition. - PEN International (known as International PEN until 2010) is a worldwide association of writers, founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere. The association has autonomous International PEN centers in over 100 countries. - This is about the PEN Center in New York . For the Center in California , see PEN Center USA PEN American Center ( PEN ) , founded in 1922 and based in New York City , works to advance literature , to defend free expression , and to foster international literary fellowship . The Center has a membership of 3,300 writers , editors , and translators . PEN American Center is the largest of the 144 centers that belong to PEN International , the worldwide association of writers that defends those who are harassed , imprisoned and killed for their views . PEN American Center is one of two PEN centers located in the USA , the other is PEN Center USA in Los Angeles , it covers the USA west of the Mississippi . Full membership in PEN generally requires the publication of one or more books of a literary character , or one or more play produced in a professional venue . Editors with a career of five years or more are also eligible , as are many publishers , agents , and publicists and other members of the literary publishing community . Recently , PEN created an associate tier of membership , which is open to the general public . Over the years , PEN American Center 's membership has included many of the leading lights in the American literary establishment , including Edward Albee , Paul Auster , James Baldwin , Giannina Braschi , Willa Cather , Don De Lillo , Robert Frost , Tony Kushner , Langston Hughes , Thomas Mann , Arthur Miller , Marianne Moore , Susan Sontag , Salman Rushdie and John Steinbeck . In addition to defending persecuted writers , PEN American Center sponsors public literary programs and forums on current issues , sends prominent authors to inner - city schools to encourage reading and writing , administers literary prizes , promotes international literature that might otherwise go unread in the United States , and offers grants and loans to writers facing financial or Medical Emergencies . PEN is also a member of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange , a global network of nongovernmental... 'pen american center' is related to which object entity through the relation of 'part of'? Choices: - art - international pen - may - person - work - writing
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