Friday, January 26th, 2007 - 7:00PM Jimmy Stewart Theater, Room 24
Sony Pictures, Culver City
The Hollywood Hill invites you to join us for a screening of Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner WHY WE FIGHT, followed by a provocative discussion and Q&A with Eugene Jarecki, Director of WHY WE FIGHT and THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER, Congressman Henry Waxman, Ranking Minority Member (since 1997) of the Committee on Government Reform, Michael Keane, Hollywood Consultant and Expert on the Economics of National Security, and Philip E. Coyle, former Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Clinton Administration and currently Senior Advisor to the President of the Center for Defense Information, a Washington D.C.-based national security study center.. Los Angeles Times Review
Eugene Jarecki is an award-winning dramatic and documentary filmmaker whose most recent film WHY WE FIGHT won the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Combining the skills of journalist and poet, Variety writes, Eugene Jarecki joins the top ranks of non-fiction filmmakers with Why We Fight, a thoroughgoing and affecting film on the nature and causes of the American military-industrial complex. The film has been acquired by Sony Pictures Classics. In 1992, after training at Princeton University as a stage director, Jarecki turned to film. His first short subject SEASON OF THE LIFTERBEES premiered at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival before winning both a Student Academy Award and the Time Warner Grand Prize at the Aspen Film Festival. His prior film, THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER was released theatrically to critical acclaim in 130 U.S. cities. Winner of the 2002 A