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Morgan Valentine Spurlock is an American documentary filmmaker, humorist, television producer, screenwriter, and political activist, best known for the documentary film Super Size Me. Spurlock was the executive producer and star of the reality television series 30 Days. Spurlock was born in... Parkersburg, West Virginia, and was raised in Beckley, West Virginia. He was raised a Methodist. He went to New York University and graduated in 1993 and is a member of the fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta. Spurlock has stated that he is of Scottish and Irish descent. Spurlock attended Woodrow Wilson High School in Beckley, West Virginia, graduating in 1989. He graduated with a BFA in film from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1993. Before making the 2004 Academy Award nominated Super Size Me, Spurlock was a playwright, winning awards for his play The Phoenix at both the New York International Fringe Festival in 1999 and the Route 66 American Playwriting Competition in 2000. He also created I Bet You Will for MTV. I Bet You Will began as a popular Internet webcast of five-minute episodes featuring ordinary people doing stunts in exchange for money.
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Alex Gibney is an American documentary film director and producer. In 2010, Esquire magazine said Gibney "is becoming the most important documentarian of our time." His works as director include Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room ; Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer ; Casino Jack and... the United States of Money; and Taxi to the Dark Side , focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed at Bagram Air Force Base in 2002. After attending Pomfret School, Gibney earned his bachelor's degree from Yale University and later attended the UCLA Film School. He is the son of journalist Frank Gibney and the stepson of the late Rev. William Sloane Coffin. He served as executive producer of the documentary No End in Sight . His film Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson is documentary based on Hunter S. Thompson and his "Gonzo" style of journalism.
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Rachel Grady is a film director involved in producing the documentary films Jesus Camp, The Boys of Baraka, and 12th and Delaware. Grady has frequently collaborated with fellow director Heidi Ewing She is the daughter of James Grady. Jesus Camp was coproduced and filmed by Grady in 2005 and debuted... at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival, it was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 79th Academy Awards. Grady coproduced and filmed 12th & Delaware. The film premiered on January 24, 2010 at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Documentary Competition.
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Eugene Jarecki is an author and a dramatic and documentary filmmaker based in New York. His works include Why We Fight, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, Reagan, Freakonomics , Quest of the Carib Canoe, Season of the Lifterbees, and The House I Live In. Why We Fight and The House I Live In were both... winners of the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, in 2005 and 2012 respectively. Jarecki attended Princeton and New York University. After working for some years as a director of stage plays, Jarecki turned to film. He is also the author of The American Way of War , published by Simon & Schuster/Free Press. In 1992, after training at Princeton University as a stage director, Jarecki's 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 film The Trials of Henry Kissinger was released theatrically to critical acclaim in 130 U.S. cities. Winner of the 2002 Amnesty International Award, the film was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and has been broadcast in over thirty countries.
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Seth Gordon is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film editor. He has produced and directed both film and TV for various film and television studios, including PBS, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the United Nations 1% For Development Fund. His films have been... featured at the Sundance Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival. Gordon was born in Evanston, Illinois, and has lived in New York, London and Seattle. In Seattle, Seth attended and graduated from Lakeside School, the alma mater of Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Craig Mccaw, and Daniel Wu. He then attended Yale University where he studied architecture and was elected to Wolf's Head Society. While in school he spent six months in Kenya to help develop the school and infrastructure for the small village of Shimanyiro in Kenya. In one instance, Gordon's having securing funding for a local school led to a crisis involving "an imbalance of need and greed", which itself provided the basis for an early film project. When he returned to Yale, Gordon taught himself how to edit his footage on an Avid editing machine. Gordon also attended Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Heidi Ewing is a film director and producer.