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VANCOUVER PREMIERE // VANCITY THEATRE EXCLUSIVE
The first film to comprehensively examine how the Bush administration constructed the Iraq war and subsequent occupation, NO END IN SIGHT exposes a chain of critical errors, denial, and incompetence that has galvanized a violent quagmire.
Drawing on jaw-droppingly frank interviews with an impressive array of high-level government officials, military personnel, and journalists, Charles Ferguson zeroes in on the months immediately before and after toppling Saddam. Despite intelligence strongly warning that transforming Iraq into a democracy would be long and brutal without careful planning, massive troops, and international support, Bush launched the invasion after only 60 days of preparation. Baghdad’s infrastructure fell along with the city, leaving large-scale looting, lawlessness, and violent chaos in its wake...—Sundance Film Festival
Charles Ferguson is founder and president of Representational Pictures, Inc., and director and producer of NO END IN SIGHT: The American Occupation of Iraq, which is his first film. Ferguson was originally trained as a political scientist. He holds a BA in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and obtained a Ph.D. in political science from M.I.T. in 1989. Following his Ph.D., Ferguson conducted postdoctoral research at MIT while also consulting to the White House, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Department of Defense, and several U.S. and European high technology firms. From 1992-1994 Ferguson was an independent consultant, providing strategic consulting to the top managements of U.S. high technology firms including Apple, Xerox, Motorola, and Texas Instruments.
In 1994, Ferguson founded Vermeer Technologies, one of the earliest Internet software companies, with Randy Forgaard. Vermeer created the first visual Web site development tool, FrontPage. In early 1996, Ferguson sold Vermeer to Microsoft, which integrated FrontPage into Microsoft Office. After selling Vermeer, Ferguson returned to research and writing. He was a visiting scholar and/or lecturer for several years at MIT and Berkeley, and for three years was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Ferguson is the author of three books and many articles dealing with various aspects of information technology and its relationships to economic, political, and social issues. Ferguson is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a director of the French-American Foundation, and supports several nonprofit organizations.
“It is not a film that simply massages your pre-existing attitudes about the war in Iraq. Rather it is a work that tells you things you almost certainly did not know about that disaster or things that have been lost to sight as chaos, anarchy and our feelings of helplessness have grown over the years since the invasion of 2003.”—Richard Schickel, Time
“Please send everyone you know to see it. The film convicts the Bush Administration more clearly, specifically and forcefully than any previous documentary, and more wrenchingly than any book could do.”—Stuart Klawans, The Nation
Official site (trailer & photos): http://noendinsightmovie.com/
Photos at: http://www.vifc.org/fileshare/login.php
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