ALEX
GIBNEY
Totally Under Control 
The Looming Tower / Hulu
Ford / Mustang Moments: The Opera Singer / GTB
Agents of Chaos / HBO
Gatorade / Lochte / TBWA/Chiat/Day
The Armstrong LieEverything's "Totally Under Control"
Months into a global pandemic comes Alex Gibney's documentary that examines the early response, or lack thereof, by the United States and South Korea to curb the impact of Covid-19. Shot in secret over the first five months of 2020, Totally Under Control is a well documented reminder of all that has occurred, and what's to come if we continue down this path.
"Totally Under Control delivers a damning—and essential—report card on the White House’s mismanagement of the pandemic."
-The Atlantic
"There was some pushback from funders, like, 'Why don’t you just wait? Relax? Tell it over the course of time when history will carefully reveal itself... I was like, 'No. I want to tell this story now, when it matters. When you can look at what happened early on and render some kind of judgment...'"
-Alex Gibney, Director, in an interview with the LA Times
'Agents of Chaos'
'Agents of Chaos'
Alex's "Agents of Chaos" pulls back the curtain on Russian collusion in the 2016 U.S. elections in this new two-part film debuting on HBO in advance of the 2020 presidential contest.
The resulting film is a product of years of reporting on Russian election interference, and features footage inside the Russian troll farms where politically incendiary Facebook posts and viral videos were created and disseminated.
Watch the trailer here.
"Alex Gibney isn’t just one of America’s most prolific documentary makers, he’s also one of the best."
- The Guardian
Alex's Mission.
Alex Gibney's profile on CBS Sunday Morning delves into his background, how it inspired his body of work, and what drives him.
"I’ve called him the documentary’s greatest prosecutor. His films are the perfect closing arguments. He starts with maybe a small story that doesn’t seem necessarily related to the larger thesis and he just gets bigger and bigger."
- A.J. Schnack, Vulture
The Looming Tower.
Alex’s first foray into narrative directing comes in the form of Hulu’s limited series The Looming Tower, a collaboration with Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Dan Futterman and stars Alec Baldwin, Jeff Daniels, and Peter Saarsgaard.
The show takes a controversial look at how the rivalry between the CIA and FBI inadvertently might have set the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Iraq. The series was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards.
"Alex Gibney delves into dramatized material here. The result is a show which feels kinetic like a documentary, weaving actual news footage in with recreated moments. This is quality TV with a serious pedigree." - NPR
Alex Talks to The NY Times About His 5 Favorite Films.
"I don’t even like proclaiming “great films.” I remember that my father spent most of his life wanting to be a “great man,” but became more interesting and important to me when he became a “good man,” sharp, curious and more interested in listening than making speeches."
"My list comprises “good films” that stirred my heart in unexpected ways." - AG
For the full article, click here
A Few Trailers.
The Inventor
Out for Blood In Silicon Valley
"In laying out the trajectory of the Theranos scam, Gibney illuminates the dark side of America's obsession with self-made success, tying its cautionary tale of moxie-without-results into a larger indictment of Silicon Valley."
- The AV Club
"An astonishing case of idealism morphing into egomania."
- The Hollywood Reporter
Going Clear
Scientology & the Prison of Belief.
Winner of 3 Emmys including Best Documentary.
"This impeccably assembled and argued film represents a brave, timely intervention into debates around the organization that have been simmering for some time."
- The Hollywood Reporter
"Absolutely riveting"
- Toronto Sun
Taxi to the Dark Side.
The Academy Award-winner for Best Documentary.
"One of the essential documentaries of the ongoing war. Certain to inspire both outrage and sorrow... there's no denying the eloquence and power of this incendiary documentary."
- The New Yorker
"Let’s hope we can turn this country around, move away from the dark side and back to the light."
- Alex Gibney, Oscar Acceptance Speech
We Steal Secrets
The Story of Wikileaks.
"Engaging, kinetic, revelatory and unexpected. The story is alive and electric and required viewing for anyone trying to formulate an opinion on just what the whole mess was all about."
- Newsday
"Both a juicy chronicle of recent history and a provocative reflection on the role of secrecy in an instant-access world."
- The Hollywood Reporter
30 For 30
Catching Hell.
"The film is accessible -- and funny -- enough to attract a wide audience, sports-minded or not."
- Variety
"Filmmaker Alex Gibney dissects an infamous sports incident in fascinating and wildly entertaining detail. [An] alternately hilarious and disturbing documentary about the thin line between sports fandom and mania."
- The Hollywood Reporter
Director. Producer. Writer.
Biography.
Alex would have loved to have been a pro tennis player or musician but it just wasn’t in his cards. Instead he went on to become one of the world's most important documentary filmmakers. Raised by a journalist and a theologian who were constantly challenging the status quo, Alex would grow into a “filmmaker with journalistic baggage". Alex studied Japanese at Yale but when he discovered the Maysles, who were mixing artistic filmmaking with investigative techniques, he went on to UCLA Film School and made his first documentary The Ruling Classroom, about a classroom democracy experiment gone wrong. It would hint at things to come. Spurred on by the anti-authoritarian journalistic integrity he inherited, plus an undying curiosity about the world around him and a strong distaste for any sort of bully, Alex hunts for truth in whatever subject he explores. A personal credo to always embrace the contradictions of life, gives his films a satisfying complexity that resonates long after they’re over.
As a writer, director, and producer he’s won an Oscar, Peabodys, Emmys, and a Grammy and while many of his films showcase the abuse of power he’s also found room to embrace his deep love of sports and music with his ESPN 30 for 30 series, and his films about Janis Joplin, James Brown, Fela Kuti, and The Blues, the series he produced with Martin Scorsese. In 2018 he crossed over into scripted storytelling as a writer, director and executive producer of the Hulu series The Looming Tower, which landed Alex a WGA nomination and 5 Emmy nominations. His feature-length doc, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, aired on HBO post the Sundance 2019 premiere. Most recently, Alex shot and premiered Totally Under Control, one of the only documentaries about Covid-19 that was produced while the pandemic unfolded. The film was released by Neon just before the 2020 presidential election and Alex was nominated for Best Documentary Screenplay at the 2021 WGA Awards.
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