Event Details
On Tuesday October 5, Chicago Booth Finance Club will be joined by Academy Award nominated director Charles Ferguson and Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips to screen INSIDE JOB prior to its official Chicago release. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Phillips. Soft drinks and snacks will be served during the film, with a networking reception following the Q&A session.
INSIDE JOB Awards and Reviews:
· “Best single film at Cannes” –IndieWire poll
· “A powerhouse of a documentary that will leave you both thunderstruck and boiling with rage.” –Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
· “A very angry, very carefully argued, brutally clear documentary…Inside Job is devastating as it reports on the gilded worlds of the Masters of the Universe.” –Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
· “A lively, droll, and acidic shakedown…deserves, in stock terms, a triple-A rating.” –Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter
About the Director:
Charles Ferguson is a filmmaker, writer, and political scientist. A native of San Francisco, Ferguson obtained a B.A. in mathematics from U.C., Berkeley in 1978 and a Ph.D. in political science from M.I.T. in 1989. Following the successful sale of the internet software company he founded, Mr. Ferguson spent several years as a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a visiting scholar at M.I.T. and U.C., Berkeley. In mid-2005, Ferguson began production of his first film, No End In Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. His latest film, Inside Job, opens in Chicago on October 15.
Advance Online Registration
CBFC members: Free
Non-members: $10
Walk-in (all): $15 cash only
Program
5:45 PM-6:00 PM: Check-in
6:00 PM-7:50 PM: Film Screening (soft drinks and snacks served)
7:50 PM-8:20 PM: Q&A with the director and film critic
8:20 PM-9:30 PM: Networking reception (hors d'oeuvres served plus cash bar)
Speaker Profiles
Charles Ferguson (Panelist)
Director
Charles Ferguson, the founder of Representational Pictures and the director of Inside Job, is a filmmaker, writer, and political scientist. A native of San Francisco, California, Ferguson obtained a B.A. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978 and a Ph.D. in political science from M.I.T. in 1989. Following his Ph.D., Ferguson was a postdoctoral researcher at M.I.T. for three years, focusing on interactions between high technology, globalization, and government policy, and frequently consulting to U.S. government agencies including the White House staff, the Defense Department, and the U.S. Trade Representative. Then from 1992 to 1994 Ferguson was an independent consultant to high technology companies including Apple, Xerox, Motorola, Intel, and Texas Instruments. In 1994 Ferguson founded Vermeer Technologies, a software company which developed FrontPage, the first end-user Web site development tool, which he sold to Microsoft in 1996. Subsequently he spent several years as a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a visiting scholar at M.I.T. and U.C., Berkeley.
In mid-2005, Ferguson formed Representational Pictures and began production of his first film, No End In Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq, which premiered at the Sundance Festival in 2007. No End In Sight won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance, the Best Documentary prizes of the New York and Los Angeles Film Critics circles, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Ferguson has authored several books including High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner’s Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars, and Computer Wars: The Post-IBM World (co-authored with Charles Morris).
Michael Phillips (Panelist)
Film Critic, Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips is the film critic of the Chicago Tribune, and was co-host of the long-running nationally syndicated TV show "At the Movies" in its final season, after filling in for Roger Ebert off and on since 2006. He covers movies for CLTV and can be heard most Fridays on WGN-AM. This summer he guest hosted the popular filmspotting. net podcast (broadcast on WBEZ-FM) and has guested on everything from "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," "Entourage," "The View," "Charlie Rose," BBC radio, MSNBC and Chicago's own ABC-7.
In his former life as a theater critic he wrote for the Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the Dallas Times-Herald. He has chaired the Pulitzer Prize drama jury and is a three-time Pulitzer drama juror. Born in Kenosha, Wisc., raised in Racine, Wisc., Phillips is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and lives on Chicago's northwest side with his wife and son and two dogs. One of the dogs is a good dog. The other one's improving.