The Director's Cut - A DGA Podcast
The Director's Cut - A DGA Podcast
Directors Guild of America
Shock and Awe with Rob Reiner and Jeremy Kagan (Ep. 153)
34 minutes Posted Aug 31, 2018 at 11:55 am.
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Director Rob Reiner discusses his film, Shock and Awe, with fellow director Jeremy Kagan. Based on a true story, the film takes us back to the time after 9/11 when the Bush-Cheney administration claimed that then-President of Iraq Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, during their push to ramp up support for the invasion of Iraq. However, journalists at the Knight-Ridder news agency were skeptical of the evidence and stayed in pursuit of the real story while their colleagues mistakenly fed the American people news based on faulty and fabricated intelligence.
See photos and a summary of this event below:
https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Sept2018/ShocknAwe_QnA_0818.aspx