Alex Gibney in Conversation with TNM Founder Shari Foos
Tue, Jul 16
|Zoom
Join a virtual conversation with documentarian Alex Gibney on the art and impact of storytelling through film. After the interview, audience members will be invited to participate in a TNM experience of creative writing to prompts and group conversation!
Time & Location
Jul 16, 2024, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
Zoom
About the Event
About Alex Gibney:
Director Alex Gibney, called “the most important documentarian of our time” by Esquire Magazine, has a signature cinematic style that lends itself to penetrating, gripping and deeply insightful documentaries. His work has been the recipient of an Academy Award, multiple Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, several Peabody Awards, the DuPont-Columbia Award, The Independent Spirit Award and The Writers Guild Awards.
Gibney's 2020 releases included: the well-received Crazy, Not Insane, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Agents of Chaos, a two-part documentary about Russian meddling in the 2016 US elections (both for HBO), and Totally Under Control, a searing look at the administration’s failure to contain the COVID 19 pandemic, released theatrically by Neon. In 2021, he directed the HBO and HBO Max two-part documentary, The Crime of the Century, which explored the origins, extent, and fallout of one of the most devastating public health tragedies of our time, the opioid crisis. His most recent release is the Emmy-winning…