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January 19, 2007 - [ Salon ]

How do you create a fresh take on perhaps the most mythologized period of recent American history? In writer-director Brett Morgen's case, the answer is by ignoring or breaking all the rules of documentary film, and by smashing the historical vitrine that has long contained these events and dragging them out into the light.
 

January 19, 2007 - [ ComingSoon.net ]

Chicago 10 is the Heavy Metal of anti-war docs, and not just for the inventive animation that recreates the kangaroo court trial of 8 anti-war protestors claimed to be responsible for the riot causing marches during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, but also for the attitude that drives Morgen's film.
 

January 17, 2007 - [ Variety ]

Jeff Skoll's Participant Prods. has hired veteran events producer John Schreiber for the newly created position of exec VP, social action and advocacy.
 

January 9, 2007 - [ Variety ]

Participant Prods. has hired marketing specialists Buffy Shutt and Kathy Jones to strategize and orchestrate marketing at Jeff Skoll's socially conscious shingle. Each will hold the title of exec VP of marketing and report directly to Participant prexy Ricky Strauss.
 

December 31, 2006 - [ The New York Times ]

KASHGAR, CHINA.  The sun is setting fast and early over Yarbeshe, a hillside neighborhood of crumbling brick houses, dark alleys and a creaky wooden drawbridge that sways uneasily over a stream in this fabled gateway city that links far western China to the recesses of central Asia.
 

November 26, 2006 - [ New York Times ]

Mr. Morgen, the co-director of the boxing film On the Ropes (1999) and the Robert Evans cine-memoir The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002), has been working on his latest documentary since 2001.
 

September 22, 2006 - [ Los Angeles Times ]

Former eBay founder Jeff Skoll — head of Participant Productions, one of Hollywood's most politically active production houses — announced that his foundation was giving PBS $2.5 million to make films dealing with a variety of problems facing the world.
 

September 8, 2006 - [ Los Angeles Times ]

The independent film company behind such movies as Good Night, and Good Luck and An Inconvenient Truth has hired a new chief executive to expand into other forms of media.

September 11, 2006 - [ Fast Company ]

"If you want to send a message" in Hollywood, the saying goes, "call Western Union." Don't tell that to entrepreneur and philanthropist Jeff Skoll. With 11 Oscar nominations for cause-driven work such as Syriana and Good Night, and Good Luck--and a growing roster of A-list talent at his side--he's proving that it pays to be pointed.

June 2, 2006 - [ Washington Post ]

Al Gore scares the bejesus out of me. Okay, not him personally. During a meeting in his Washington office to discuss the documentary based on his traveling slide show on global warming, Gore comes across as more relaxed, genial and funny than he ever did when he was in public office. But his movie, An Inconvenient Truth is rattling stuff indeed.
 

May 28, 2006 - [ Time ]

Al Gore used to joke that it was easy to pick him out in a roomful of Secret Service agents: He was the stiff one. So he was the first to say how surreal it was to find himself the toast of Cannes last week.

May 28, 2006 - [ Seattle Times ]

An Inconvenient Truth, director Davis Guggenheim's documentary about former Vice President Al Gore's longtime campaign to raise awareness of global warming via a touring slide-show presentation, opens Friday at Pacific Place and the Guild 45th.
 

May 23, 2006 - [ Time ]

A clever apercu from Al Gore? The mind does not perhaps reel. But it does do a little startled jig.
 

May 22, 2006 - [ Associated Press ]

Michael Moore has been the American on a mission at the Cannes Film Festival the last few years. This time it's Al Gore, with the documentary An Inconvenient Truth...
 

May 22, 2006 - [ The New York Times ]

The frustrations of a man whose long-sought goal remains out of reach are vividly on display in the first few minutes of An Inconvenient Truth, a new documentary about former Vice President Al Gore's quest to spur action against global warming.
 

May 19, 2006 - [ Associated Press ]

[An Inconvenient Truth] is a magnificent primer on global warming and a tough-love commentary on how today’s energy gluttony could be endangering tomorrow.
 

May 18, 2006 - [ Environment News Service ]

Hollywood put out a green welcome mat Tuesday for former Vice President Al Gore and his film about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth.  Larry David, David Duchovny, Sharon Stone, and Garry Shandling were among the actors and activists who entered the theatre on a green carpet instead of the usual red one.
 

May 2, 2006 - [ Seattle Times ]

...Now he (Al Gore) is in town for an invitation-only screening of a documentary film chronicling the presentations and his other work on global warming. An Inconvenient Truth, which received standing ovations at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, opens in Seattle in June. A book of the same name is set to be released this month...
 

April 30, 2006 - [ Time ]

Two things about Jeff Skoll: he wants to make the world a better place, and he didn't found eBay... His company, Participant Productions, has just relieved Warner Bros. of half the budget of my film Syriana. That seems sort of risky, and I'm very curious about Jeff. His last company was eBay—perhaps you've heard of it? He was its first employee, its first president. He tells me eBay's secret. "It's a community," he says, "and communities are built on trust." He tells me that he believes people are basically good, and if you give them the opportunity to be good, they will be... "If you look at our track record, what we proved is that people are good," he says softly. "And that's pretty cool."
 

April 28, 2006 - [ Newsweek ]

A movie about Al Gore giving a PowerPoint presentation about global warming doesn’t sound all that exciting, but if you liked March of the Penguins, you’ll love An Inconvenient Truth. Gore is as relentless in his travels to save the planet and faces almost as many obstacles as those penguins making their way across the tundra.