1. Eugene Jarecki was born on October 5,1969 and is an American documentary filmmaker.
14 Facts About Eugene Jarecki
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Eugene Jarecki is best known as a two-time winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, as well as multiple Emmy and Peabody Awards, for his films Why We Fight, Reagan, and The House I Live In.
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Eugene Jarecki's second film that year was a dramatic feature called The Opponent released by Lionsgate.
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In 2005, Eugene Jarecki distinguished himself as a filmmaker unafraid of serious, penetrating investigations.
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Eugene Jarecki received a nomination for Best Documentary Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America for the film.
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Alongside directors Alex Gibney, Morgan Spurlock, and Rachel Grady, Jarecki directed a segment of the 2010 feature Freakonomics based on the 2005 book Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner.
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In 2011, Eugene Jarecki returned to the Sundance Film Festival with his Emmy Award-winning film Reagan, before its national television release on HBO on what would have been the 40th President's 100th birthday.
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In 2014, Eugene Jarecki took part in the first Ted Talk in the history of Cuba at Havana's Teatro Nacional.
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In 2015, Eugene Jarecki served as executive producer on the documentary feature film ERROR, directed by Lyric Cabral and David Felix Sutcliff, which won Eugene Jarecki a Sundance Special Jury Prize and his second Emmy Award.
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Alongside the film, Jarecki created a series of music videos for artists such as Lana Del Rey, M Ward, The Handsome Family, Immortal Technique, and the Stax Music Academy All-Stars.
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In 2019, it was announced that Eugene Jarecki is returning to dramatic filmmaking with a yet-untitled action film about a Saharan, Tuareg nomad, who seeks revenge for a crime committed against his tribal customs.
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Eugene Jarecki wrote the screenplay with his son Jonas Eugene Jarecki, based on a best-selling novel.
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Eugene Jarecki has participated as a speaker at several international conferences including Ted, Nantucket Project, and will.
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At the 2014 Nantucket Project, Eugene Jarecki conducted a public interview with WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange as a hologram, beamed in to Nantucket from his place of asylum at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.