Eugene Jarecki

Eugene Jarecki is an award-winning dramatic and documentary filmmaker based in New York. His works include Why We Fight, which won the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival; The Trials of Henry Kissinger, which won the 2002 Amnesty International Award and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award; Quest of the Carib Canoe; and Season of the Lifterbees, which won the Time Warner Grand Prize at the Aspen Film Festival. He attended Princeton University and New York University, then worked for some years directing stage plays before turning to film. In addition to his work in film, Jarecki is also the founder and executive director of the Eisenhower Project, an academic public policy group dedicated to studying the forces that shape American foreign policy. He is also a visiting fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.