Known for his cinematic, gripping, and deeply insightful documentaries, the filmmaker has won the Academy Award, multiple Emmy Awards, the Grammy Award, several Peabody Awards, the DuPont-Columbia, The Independent Spirit, The Writers Guild of America Awards, and more. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown HBO’s two-part special,ĭirector Alex Gibney has been called "the most important documentarian of our time" byĮsquire) and "one of America’s most successful and prolific documentary filmmakers” by The New York Times (The NY Times T Magazine). Jigsaw releases from the past several years include the Peabody Award-winning and Grammy-nominated We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks the provocative film about Lance Armstrong’s fall from grace,Ĭlient 9, the in-depth look at the rapid rise and dramatic fall of former New York Governor, Eliot Spitzer. Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God Showtime’s Emmy Award-winning Nron: The Smartest Guys in the Room the multiple Emmy Award-winning Taxi to the Dark Side the Oscar®-nominated “ Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, which won three Emmy awards, a DuPont Columbia Award, and a WGA Award, and was one of the most watched documentaries in HBO’s history the Oscar- and Emmy Award-winning Jigsaw has produced some of the most acclaimed documentary films, including Jigsaw Productions is helmed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, considered one of the most prolific and thought-provoking documentary filmmakers of our generation. Meltdown is enraging and engaging, must-listen audio entertainment for anyone who wants to know how we ended up where we are now - and where we might be going next. Meltdown is the first collaboration between Audible, a leading producer and provider of original spoken-word entertainment and audiobooks, and Jigsaw Productions, the production house launched and helmed by Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney ( Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief) in collaboration with Transmitter Media, the Peabody-nominated and Webby-winning production company behind podcasts such as Finding Fred, Work Life with Adam Grant and Tabloid: The Making of Ivanka Trump. Sirota talks to politicians who made the laws, the investigators who uncovered massive fraud and ordinary people who lost homes, families and livelihoods, in order to shed light on why the economic disaster happened, why nobody succeeded in fixing it, and why the country soon embraced the politics of rage. This is an epic adventure, a search for answers that stretches from Bogotá, Colombia to Madison, Wisc., to Washington, D.C. In this thrilling, 8-part podcast, investigative journalist David Sirota explores why the financial crisis happened, how the bailout went so wrong, why politicians covered up Wall Street’s crimes and what the lasting impact of the meltdown was on America’s political, social and economic fabric. The 2008 financial crisis - and the government’s botched, multibillion-dollar bailout - is the skeleton key that unlocks almost every big thing that’s gone wrong in America in the 21st Century, from climate change, to the all-out assault on democracy, to the rise of white nationalism. How did we end up in this version of America, with neighbors divided against neighbors, and some citizens angry enough to storm the U.S. Listen to the trailer now and the full podcast on 10/28.
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