In the 1970 I visited the Soviet Union with my father who had a keen interest in consumer products. This was a period when Soviet consumer goods where considered a joke. We spent a lot of time in stores checking out the wares. We noticed that small appliances like toasters where much more expensive than in the U.S. They also seemed overbuilt. Toasters with actual screws that you could take apart. Then we noticed all these kiosks and small shops called Metal Repair Shops. Turns out a toaster was not a disposable item there. If if broke you took it to …
Gordon Quinn
His producing credits include such award-winning and highly acclaimed films as Hoop Dreams; Vietnam, Long Time Coming; <i>Golub</i>; 5 Girls; Refrigerator Mothers, Stevie, for which he won the Cinematography Award at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, and The New Americans (for which Gordon also directed the Palestinian segment). Most recently, Gordon executive produced Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, At The Death House Door, Milking the Rhino and In the Family. He is currently Executive Producing Typeface as well as directing a film on delayed posttraumatic stress syndrome, Prisoner of Her Past.
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 Public Access Corporation, The Illinois Humanities Council, The Public Square Advisory Committee and The IL Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
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