Sedona, AZ: The Sedona Arizona Film Festival offers an opportunity to meet the filmmaker, Alex Gibney, during the northern Arizona premiere of “Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.” This is the final film in the OctoberFEST of Film series.
Alex Gibney wrote and directed the Oscar-nominated film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. His most recent film, Taxi to the Dark Side (ThinkFilm), a documentary murder mystery examining the death of an Afghan taxi driver at Bagram Air Base, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2008.
Gibney is now at work on two other films: For Participant Productions, Magnolia Pictures and Reason Pictures, he is directing and writing Casino Jack, a look at lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the selling of the American government. For Optimum Releasing and Thinkfilm, he is directing and producing Magic Bus, a time-travel immersion experience of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, on their infamous road-trip to the 1964 World’s Fair.
He is also working on two fiction projects: a film (part documentary, part fiction) of My Trip to Al Qaeda, a play by Lawrence Wright, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, and he is writing a script based on David Halberstam’s book, The Best and the Brightest.
Gibney has another film at Sundance this year — the dramatic feature Love Comes Lately, which he executive produced.
Other films by Gibney include: No End in Sight (Executive Producer); Mr. Untouchable (Producer), Who Killed the Electric Car (Consulting Producer); The Trials of Henry Kissinger (Writer/Producer); Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (Producer); Lightning in a Bottle (Producer); Wim Wenders` Soul of a Man (Producer) and Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues (Producer).
For more information about the Sedona International Film Festival visit www.SedonaFilmFestival.com.
Article courtesy of Patrick Schweiss, Executive Director.
Posted October 22, 2008.
