Michael Moore confirmed for discussion Monday 13th June.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is coming to Dublin for a special IFTA Academy screening of his new film ‘Where to Invade Next’.
Named as one of the top 100 Most Influential People in the world by TIME Magazine and widely cited as one of the best documentary filmmakers of all time, IFTA has announced that Michael Moore will participate in an Academy Discussion after the screening, taking place at the IFI on Monday 13th June.
Moore’s phenomenal success has brought documentary filmmaking into mainstream cinema starting with his 2002 film Bowling For Columbine, probing the culture of guns in America, and won the Oscar for Best Documentary as well as being a commercial hit making $58 million worldwide (an extremely rare feat for a documentary at the time). This was bested by Moore’s next documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, exploring America in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, which made over $222 million worldwide and won the Palme D’Or at Cannes. It is still the highest grossing documentary film of all time.
Moore has also written and co-written eight non-fiction books, mostly on similar subject matter to his documentaries. His book Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!, which was highly critical of the US government after 9/11, spent 50 weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers List, including a massive eight weeks at number one.
Moore's written and cinematic works criticise topics such as globalization, large corporations, assault weapon ownership, the Iraq War, the American health care system, and capitalism. Moore is also noted for his political activism and his documentaries and writings are acclaimed for his trademark satirical voice.
His newest film, the critically lauded Where To Invade Next, written and directed by Moore in his first film in six years, is shot in the style of a travelogue. With the filmmaker’s trademark acerbic satirical viewpoint in tow, the film has Moore spending time in countries such as Tunisia, Finland, Italy, France, and Portugal where he experiences those countries' alternative methods of dealing with social and economic ills experienced in the United States.
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