- Death of a President is director Gabriel Range’s speculative documentary set in December, 2008, that tells the story of the assassination of President George W. Bush on October 19, 2007. Part political thriller, part murder mystery, Range’s film documents the President’s ill-fated trip to Chicago to make a speech about economics, the violent protest that ensues outside, the shooting of the President, and the search for the assassin. Range’s previous films include the BBC drama The Day Britain Stopped and The Man Who Broke Britain, both of which employed the same fictional documentary technique seen in Death of a President. Both films garnered Range awards, record-breaking television ratings, and critical acclaim. Death of a President has already aired on British television and screened at the 006 Toronto International Film festival where it won the International Critics Prize. Range achieves the challenge of creating the fictional assassination of the current
- 11/1/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
- Quick Links > D.O.A.P > Newmarket Films > Toronto film festival Death of a President (D.O.A.P.), the UK TV movie that became one of the most controversial and buzzed-about films at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, has been snapped up by Newmarket Films for release in the Us. The mockumentary, which spawned hundreds of headlines even before its screening (like Snakes On A Plane, or S.O.A.P, oddly enough), recreates and reexamines the assassination of current President George W. Bush by a Syrian sniper in Chicago. Newmarket, amongst whose other releases are Lukas Moodysson's Lilya 4Eva, Whale Rider, and Christopher Nolan's Memento and upcoming The Prestige, is evidently not worried about the impending foot-stomping, boycotting, and loud voices that Conservative America will no doubt expound at selected theatres when this film is actually released. Gabriel Range, the director of D.O.
- 9/13/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
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