IDA Conversation Series: Alex Gibney
Linwood Dunn Theater at the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, 1313 Vine St, Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA 90028
Series Interviewer Ben Mankiewicz
IDA’s Summer/Fall Conversation Series continues to dazzle in September with the remarkable Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney in conversation with the engaging Ben Mankiewicz. One of the most accomplished and acclaimed documentary filmmakers of our time and recipient of the 2013 IDA Career Achievement Award, Alex shows no signs of resting on his laurels. Catch this blazing documentary star while you can, when he slows down just long enough for a special evening of electrifying clips and engrossing conversation.
Alex’s daring and penetrating work includes such instant classics as this year’s devastating Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015); Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (2014); The Armstrong Lie (2013); Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012); Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010); the Oscar-winning® Taxi to the Dark Side (2007); and Oscar-nominated Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005).