Eugene Jarecki

Eugene Jarecki

director, producer, writer

Eugene Jarecki was born on Oct 05, 1969 in USA. Eugene Jarecki's big-screen debut came with The Opponent directed by Eugene Jarecki in 2000. Eugene Jarecki is known for The House I Live In directed by Eugene Jarecki, Eugene Jarecki stars as Self - Narrator and David Simon as Self - Creator, The Wire. Eugene Jarecki has got 10 awards and 14 nominations so far. The most recent award Eugene Jarecki achieved is Haifa International Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Eugene Jarecki plays is The King which will be released on Jun 22, 2018.

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 Les Etats-Unis et la drogue - Une guerre sans fin (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.

  • Birthday

    Oct 05, 1969
  • Place of Birth

    New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Known For

Awards

10 wins & 14 nominations

Haifa International Film Festival
2017
Special Mention
Winner - Carmel Award
2017
Best International Film
Winner - Carmel Award
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
2017
Outstanding Investigative Documentary
Winner - Emmy
2012
Outstanding Historical Programming - Long Form
Winner - Emmy
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