Question: Are both directors of films A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man (Film) and Knife Skills from the same country?

Knife Skills is a 2017 American documentary film directed by Thomas Lennon. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 90th Academy Awards. <SEP> Joseph Strick( July 6, 1923 – June 2, 2010) was an American director, producer and screenwriter. <SEP> Thomas Furneaux Lennon( born 1951) is a documentary filmmaker. Thomas F. Lennon's films, broadcast on PBS and HBO, have won an Academy Award and have been nominated for the Oscar four times. He has also received two George Foster Peabody Awards, two national Emmys and two DuPont- Columbia Journalism awards. With filmmaker Ruby Yang, he mounted a vast multi-year AIDS prevention campaign seen over a billion times on Chinese television. Together they made a trilogy of short documentary films about modern China, including" The Blood of Yingzhou District", which won an Oscar in 2007, and" The Warriors of Qiugang", nominated in 2011, which profiles an Anhui Province farmer's multi- year campaign to halt the poisoning of his village water by a nearby factory. Three weeks after the Oscar nomination, the local government of Bengbu, in Anhui, announced a 200 million yuan( US$ 30 million) clean- up of the toxic site shown in the film. " The Battle Over Citizen Kane"( 1996) co-written with the late Richard Ben Cramer, marked his first Oscar nomination and was adapted into a fiction film," RKO 281", starring John Malkovich and Melanie Griffith. In 2017, he completed" Knife Skills" about the hectic launch of Edwins, an haute cuisine French restaurant in Cleveland, staffed by men and women recently released from prison; in January 2018, this was nominated for an Oscar. " Sacred"( 2016) explores the use of prayer and ritual in daily life. He produced two historical series on PBS:" The Irish in America: Long Journey Home"( 1998) and" Becoming American: The Chinese Experience" with Bill Moyers( 2003). More than 40 filmmakers around the world contributed scenes to the film, which premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival and is due to be aired on PBS. Lennon lives and works in New York City. He is married to the medical researcher Joan Reibman, best known for her work on the health of 9/11 survivors. He is at times confused with the writer- comedian Thomas Lennon and has twice had to send back large royalty checks. <SEP> A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a 1977 film adaptation of James Joyce's novel of the same name, directed by Joseph Strick. It portrays the growth of consciousness of Joyce's semi-autobiographical character, Stephen Dedalus, as a boy and later as a university student in late nineteenth century Dublin. <SEP> Charles Perry( 1924–1969) was an African American author whose only published novel was" Portrait of a Young Man Drowning". He was born in Savannah, Georgia, but moved to Brooklyn when he was still in grade school. During the 1940s, he was a co-star of the hit radio series" New World A- Coming". " Portrait of a Young Man Drowning" draws heavily on Perry's first hand research of gangsters and juvenile delinquents in his own Brooklyn neighbourhood. An homage to James Joyce's" Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", the novel is written in the first person and tells the story of Harold, a young man who gets sucked into Brooklyn's underworld scene, while living with an overbearing mother. The novel was considered ground- breaking when it was first published in 1962, not least because it was one of the first novels written in the first person by a black author with a white protagonist. Perry soon began work on a semi-autobiographical account of the death of his 11- year- old son, who died falling from a tree onto a rod iron fence. Charles Jr., entitled" I Wake Up Screaming". He died of cancer. " Portrait of a Young man Drowning" was made into a film entitled Six Ways to Sunday in 1997. As well as writing Perry also appeared in over 30 films mainly in minor roles. <SEP> Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris. The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors.