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Eugene Jarecki (born October 5, 1969) is an American documentary filmmaker. He 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.
Eugene Jarecki is a filmmaker who has won two Sundance Grand Jury Prizes and an Emmy for his documentaries on politics, war, and social issues. He is also a public intellectual, a Soros Justice Fellow, and the founder of The Eisenhower Project.
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Eugene Jarecki is a director of documentaries and dramas that explore political and social issues. He has won two Sundance Grand Jury Prizes and is a public intellectual on foreign and defense policy.
- October 5, 1969
Oct 4, 2012 · Eugene Jarecki's The House I Live In takes a measured, multiperspective look at U.S. drug policies, which approach drug use as a criminal matter rather than a medical one. Samuel...
Jan 6, 2013 · “I’ve heard your name for thirty years, James, but I’ve never met you—why is that?” the filmmaker Eugene Jarecki asked. James Jeter, Jr., sat at a student desk facing Jarecki, his expression...
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Oct 4, 2012 · In the documentary “The House I Live In,” Eugene Jarecki, inspired by his longtime black caretaker, investigates the country’s drug policy and its racial and class implications.
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 (Sony Pictures Classics, 2005) and again in 2012 for The House I Live In (BBC/PBS,2012).
