Question: Do both films: Winning The Futurity and Dear Jesse have the directors from the same country?

Using a first- person narrative style in the form of a" letter" to Senator Jesse Helms( R- NC), the filmmaker explores the parallels and differences between himself — an openly gay man — and the staunchly anti-gay rights public servant. The film also features interviews with Helms' foes and fans, community activists, novelists Lee Smith and Allan Gurganus, openly gay Carrboro mayor Mike Nelson, and people in the street, including a brief interview with Matthew Shepard, then a student at Catawba College. Dear Jesse is a 1998 American documentary film by Tim Kirkman that was released theatrically by Cowboy Pictures in 1998. <SEP> Justin Paul( born January 3, 1985) is an American theater and television composer and lyricist best known for his works The Greatest Showman, La La Land and Dear Evan Hansen. <SEP> Kirkman's feature film debut," Dear Jesse", was released theatrically by Cowboy Pictures in 1998. Tim Kirkman is an American screenwriter and director. A documentary film about the political and personal parallels between the gay filmmaker and the notoriously anti-gay U.S. Senator Jesse Helms," Dear Jesse", made its cable television debut on HBO/ Cinemax's" Reel Life" series and was nominated for an Emmy Award in the News/ Documentary Writing category in 2000. The TV broadcast version of the film featured an interview with Matthew Shepard, a college student whose murder called attention to gay- bashing and hate crimes. His second film, the performance documentary" The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me", David Drake's solo off- Broadway hit play about writer Larry Kramer, was released by FilmNext in 2000. He also directed" 2nd Serve'," written by James Markert and starring Josh Hopkins, Cameron Monaghan, Alexie Gilmore, Sam McMurray, Guillermo Diaz, Kevin Sussman and Dash Mihok. Kirkman's narrative feature debut," Loggerheads", which he wrote and directed, premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for Best Dramatic Feature and won prizes at several film festivals across the United States, including the Grand Jury Prize at Outfest. The film, which stars Tess Harper, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Kelly, Michael Learned, Kip Pardue, Chris Sarandon and Robin Weigert, was released by Strand Releasing in October 2005. Kirkman most recent film, Lazy Eye, which he wrote, directed, and produced( with Todd Shotz) was released in 2016 and starts Lucas Near- Verbrugghe, Aaron Costa Ganis and Michaela Watkins. <SEP> Dunlap was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1892 and entered the film business in 1915. He produced 70 films between 1937 and 1960, and directed 47 films between 1919 and 1929. In 1942, Dunlap was with Western star Buck Jones at the Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston, Massachusetts. Dunlap was hosting a party in Jones's honor at the nightclub. Scott R. Dunlap( June 20, 1892 – March 30, 1970) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, and actor. Jones died two days after the fire, while Dunlap was seriously hurt, but survived. Dunlap died in Los Angeles in 1970. <SEP> Winning the Futurity is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Scott R. Dunlap and starring Cullen Landis, Clara Horton and Ernest Hilliard. <SEP> Charles K. Gifford is an American banker and businessman. He is the chairman emeritus of Bank of America having served on its board of directors from 2004 to 2016.