Eugene Jarecki is a renowned director of dramatic and documentary subjects, having earned prestigious awards such as the Emmy and Peabody, and boasting a remarkable track record at the Sundance Film Festival, where he has twice taken home the Grand Jury Prize.
As a public intellectual, Jarecki has been recognized for his expertise on domestic and international affairs, earning a Soros Justice Fellowship at the Open Society Institute and a Senior Fellowship at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.
Throughout his career, Jarecki has made appearances on prominent television programs, including 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart', 'Charlie Rose', 'The Colbert Report', 'FOX News', and CNN, as well as being featured in esteemed publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and GQ.
As the founder and executive director of The Eisenhower Project, a public policy group dedicated to promoting greater public understanding of U.S. foreign and defense policy, Jarecki authored the 2008 book 'The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril' (Simon & Schuster).
In 2010, his online video 'Move Your Money' sparked a national movement, encouraging millions of Americans to shift their personal banking from "too big to fail" banks to community banks and credit unions.
Mentored by the legendary filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles, Jarecki began his career as a stage director before transitioning to film, with his first short film 'Season of the Lifterbees' selected for screening at the Sundance Film Festival at the age of 21.
Since then, Jarecki has continued to receive widespread critical acclaim for his work in both dramatic and documentary films, with Variety praising him for combining the skills of a journalist and poet, setting the gold standard for political documentaries.
