Alex Gibney

Alex Gibney is an Oscar-, Emmy- and duPont-Columbia-award winning American film director and producer.

His works as director include "The Trials of Henry Kissinger" (2002), "" (2005) (nominated for an Academy Award), "The Human Behavior Experiments" (2006), "Jimi Hendrix and the Blues", and "Taxi to the Dark Side" (2007), focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed at Bagram Air Force Base in 2002 (winner of the Academy Award for Documentary Feature).

He served as executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated documentary "No End in Sight" (2007). His latest film, "", is documentary based on Hunter S. Thompson and his "Gonzo" style of journalism. Under executive producer Martin Scorsese, Gibney was series producer for the PBS television series "The Blues" (2003) producing individual episodes directed by Wim Wenders and Charles Burnett, and writer and producer of the series "The Pacific Century" (1992) which won the News & Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Historical Program. Several films he directed and/or produced have been screened at the Cannes, Sundance, and Tribeca Film Festivals.

After attending Pomfret School, Gibney earned his bachelor's degree from Yale University, where he was a member of the literary society St. Anthony Hall, and later attended the UCLA Film School. He is the son of Frank Gibney and the stepson of the late Rev. William Sloane Coffin.

Gibney is President of Jigsaw Productions, a production company which produces independent films, music documentaries, and TV mini-series. This year he won the Yale Film Studies' Program Award for his contributions to film culture.

He also writes for the "Huffington Post" blog. [ [http://www.jigsawprods.com/about.htm Jigsaw Productions | Documentary Film, DVD, CD, Books ] ]

uing his distributors

On June 19, 2008, Gibney's company filed for arbitration, arguing that THINKFilm failed to properly distribute and promote his film "Taxi to the Dark Side".cite news
url=http://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSN26483143
title=US documentary maker seeks damages over Oscar film
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url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/movies/26thin.html
title=Filmmaker Says Distributor Failed Him
publisher=The New York Times
author=Charles Lyons
date=Date|2008-06-26
accessdate=2008-07-21] He is suing for over a million dollars in damages. He stated that the film has only grossed $280,000.

References

External links

* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-leo/the-gonzo-world-of-alex-g_b_110695.html Huffington Post Interview with Alex Gibney]
* [http://drewtewksbury.com/2008/07/02/alex-gibney-director-gonzo-the-hunter-s-thompson-documentary/ Metromix Q and A with Alex Gibney]
* [http://www.ifc.com/film/film-news/2008/07/alex-gibney-on-gonzo-the-life.php Interview with Alex Gibney at IFC.com]
* [http://telluride.plumtv.com/videos/plum_interviews_alex_gibney Plum TV Telluride Interviews Alex Gibney About Gonzo]
* [http://www.jigsawprods.com/about.htm Gibney Bio (Jigsaw Productions)]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0316795/ Alex Gibney at IMDB]
* [http://www.pbs.org/theblues/ PBS series "The Blues"]
* [http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/12/discovery_channel_accused_of Gibney interview] on "Democracy Now!" (video, audio, and print transcript)