Eugene Jarecki
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Eugene Jarecki is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning director of
dramatic and documentary subjects who has twice won the Grand Jury
Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, first in 2005 for
Why We Fight (2005) and again in
2012 for
The House I Live In (2012)
A public intellectual on domestic and international affairs, Jarecki
has been named a Soros Justice Fellow at the Open Society Institute and
a Senior Fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for
International Studies. He has appeared on 'The Daily Show with Jon
Stewart', 'Charlie Rose', 'The Colbert Report', 'FOX News', CNN, and
many other outlets, while also being featured in the New York Times,
the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair,
and GQ, among others. As founder and executive director of The
Eisenhower Project, a public policy group dedicated to promoting
greater public understanding of the forces that shape U.S. foreign and
defense policy, he published the 2008 book 'The American Way of War:
Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril' (Simon &
Schuster). He is also the creator of 'Move Your Money', an online video
that sparked a national movement in 2010 to shift personal banking away
from "too big to fail" banks into community banks and credit unions. To
date, more than four million Americans have "moved their money."
Mentored in his youth by legendary filmmaker
Melvin Van Peebles, Jarecki worked as
a stage director before turning to film. When he was 21, his first
short film 'Season of the Lifterbees' was selected for screening at the
Sundance Film Festival. Since then, he has continued to receive wide
critical acclaim as both a dramatic and documentary director in film
and television. "Combining the skills of journalist and poet," writes
Variety. "Eugene Jarecki sets the gold standard for political
documentaries." Often motivated by his outrage at areas of corruption,
exploitation, or injustice in contemporary life, Jarecki's films
elegantly combine compassion with rigorous inquiry, weaving story,
emotion, and penetrating analysis into a very human tapestry of
unforgettable sounds and images.
dramatic and documentary subjects who has twice won the Grand Jury
Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, first in 2005 for
Why We Fight (2005) and again in
2012 for
The House I Live In (2012)
A public intellectual on domestic and international affairs, Jarecki
has been named a Soros Justice Fellow at the Open Society Institute and
a Senior Fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for
International Studies. He has appeared on 'The Daily Show with Jon
Stewart', 'Charlie Rose', 'The Colbert Report', 'FOX News', CNN, and
many other outlets, while also being featured in the New York Times,
the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair,
and GQ, among others. As founder and executive director of The
Eisenhower Project, a public policy group dedicated to promoting
greater public understanding of the forces that shape U.S. foreign and
defense policy, he published the 2008 book 'The American Way of War:
Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril' (Simon &
Schuster). He is also the creator of 'Move Your Money', an online video
that sparked a national movement in 2010 to shift personal banking away
from "too big to fail" banks into community banks and credit unions. To
date, more than four million Americans have "moved their money."
Mentored in his youth by legendary filmmaker
Melvin Van Peebles, Jarecki worked as
a stage director before turning to film. When he was 21, his first
short film 'Season of the Lifterbees' was selected for screening at the
Sundance Film Festival. Since then, he has continued to receive wide
critical acclaim as both a dramatic and documentary director in film
and television. "Combining the skills of journalist and poet," writes
Variety. "Eugene Jarecki sets the gold standard for political
documentaries." Often motivated by his outrage at areas of corruption,
exploitation, or injustice in contemporary life, Jarecki's films
elegantly combine compassion with rigorous inquiry, weaving story,
emotion, and penetrating analysis into a very human tapestry of
unforgettable sounds and images.