Eugene Jarecki

Filmmaker 

Eugene Jarecki is an award-winning dramatic and documentary filmmaker and visiting senior fellow at BrownUniversity's Watson Institute. After training at Princeton as a stage director, Jarecki turned to film in 1992, and his first short film, Season of the Litterbees, 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 most recent film, Why We Fight, won the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. He also directed the award-winning film The Trials of Henry Kissinger, 2001's dramatic feature The Opponent, and Quest of the Carib Canoe. His experience behind the camera and tackling challenging topics makes Jarecki an exciting keynote speaker.

In 2008, Eugene Jarecki will release his book, The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril. The book reveals America at a crossroads, and focuses on what can be done to get the country back on track. Examining American military might, it is a unique appraisal of the balance of power in American democracy and what can be done to preserve our goverment as a beacon of hope around the world.