JEONJU Intl. Film Festival

Special Focus: Corona, New Normal

Totally Under Control

Alex GIBNEY, Suzanne HILLINGER, Ophelia HARUTYUNYAN

USA 2020 123min DCP color Documentary 12 Korean Premiere

Schedule

Code	Date	Time	Theater	Info	Ticket
739	2021. 05. 05	19:30	CINE Q Jeonju Film Street 4	EK12	Ticket Wish

Overview

With damning testimony from public health officials and hard investigative reporting, exposes a system-wide collapse caused by a profound dereliction of Presidential leadership. It will be a generation before we know the full extent of the damage wrought by this pandemic, but Totally Under Control will stand as the definitive account of the Trump administration’s incompetence, corruption, and denial in the face of this global pandemic.

Review

The latest film by Alex Gibney, a leading American documentary director who created films including Academy Award-winning documentary The Armstrong Lie (2013) and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005). To release the film before the US presidential election, he rushed to complete the project and worked with two other directors. It reveals the fact in detail through the mouths of the personnels inside and outside the government on how president Donald Trump was a heinous and brazen figure that did not prepare nor take any responsibility for the COVID-19 crisis. It also exposes how Trump’s the U.S. confronted this historical pandemic compared to other countries, especially with South Korea. Taking the difficult situation of filming into account, the production crew sent out a “Corona Kit” including a camera and various auxiliary devices to the interviewees and conducted interviews online. (MOON Seok)

CREDIT

ScreenplayAlex GIBNEY
ProducerAlex GIBNEY
CinematographyBen BLOODWELL
Production DesignHazel BAIRD

MusicBrian DEMING, Peter NASHEL
EditorLindy JANKURA, Alex KEIPPER
SoundDennis DEMBECK

CastAlex AZAR, Charlie BAKER, Scott BECKER, Taison BELL

FILM SOURCE

WATCHA / cs@watcha.co.kr

DIRECTOR

Alex GIBNEY

Born in New York City. He is a producer and director, known for Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005), Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) and Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief (2015).

Suzanne HILLINGER

Suzanne Hillinger is an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker whose works have been featured on FX, Hulu, Discovery Channel, PBS, Viceland, CNN, and MSNBC. Most recently, she directed and produced the feature documentary Totally Under Control, alongside Alex Gibney and Ophelia Harutyunyan.

Ophelia HARUTYUNYAN

Ophelia Harutyunyan is an Armenian filmmaker based out of New York with a combined fiction and documentary background, sharing her time between Armenia and the U.S., known for her work on Standing8 (2015), Getting In (2015), and Red Apples (2016).

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