Career
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 (2008), 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. In 2002, Trials was selected to launch the Sundance Channel's DOCday venture as well BBC's prestigious digital channel, BBC Four.
His 2011 film Reagan, debuted at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival before having its HBO television premiere on what would have been the 40th president's 100th birthday.
Jarecki has been a guest on multiple national television programs such as The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, Fox & Friends, and Charlie Rose. In 2010, he created the short film Move Your Money, which became a viral sensation, encouraging Americans to move their banking from "too big to fail" banks into smaller community banks and credit unions. To date, an estimated 4 million Americans have moved their money.
In addition to his work in film, Jarecki is also the founder and executive director of The Eisenhower Project, an academic public policy group, dedicated in the spirit of Dwight D. Eisenhower, to studying the forces that shape American foreign policy. He is a visiting fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.
Jarecki's brother Andrew Jarecki is also a filmmaker.
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