An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth
is a 2006 Academy Award winning documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim
about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate
citizens about global warming via a comprehensive slide show that, by his own
estimate made in the film, he has given more than a thousand times.
Premiering at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opening in
New York City and Los Angeles on May 24, 2006, the documentary was a critical
and box-office success, winning 2 Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature
and Best Original Song.[4] The film grossed $24 million in the U.S. and $26
million in the foreign box office, becoming the 9th highest grossing
documentary film to date in the United States.[5]
The idea to document his efforts
came from producer Laurie David who saw his presentation at a town-hall meeting
on global warming which coincided with the opening of The Day After Tomorrow. Laurie David was so inspired by Gore's
slide show that she, with producer Lawrence
Bender, met with Guggenheim to adapt the presentation into a film.
Since the film's release, An
Inconvenient Truth has been credited for raising international public awareness
of climate change and reenergizing
the environmental movement. The documentary has also been included in science
curricula in schools around the world, which has spurred some controversy.
An Inconvenient Truth
Albert
A. Gore Jr. is the narrator-host for An
Inconvenient Truth, and the chairman for the Climate Reality Project.
Note: Carol M. Browner
was a director at the Climate Reality
Project, the energy czar for the Barack
Obama administration, an administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and is a senior fellow,
director for the Center for American
Progress.
George
Soros was a supporter for the Center
for American Progress, and is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Climate Reality Project, the Center
for American Progress, the Sundance
Institute, and the Natural Resources
Defense Council.
Sundance
Institute is the sponsor for the Sundance
Film Festival.
Robert
Redford is the founder & president for the Sundance Institute, and a trustee at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Laurie
P. David is a trustee at the Natural
Resources Defense Council, a producer for An Inconvenient Truth, and a co-founder for Americans for Fuel Efficient Cars.
Lawrence
Bender is a producer for An
Inconvenient Truth, and a co-founder for Americans for Fuel Efficient Cars.
Ari
Emanuel is a co-founder for Americans
for Fuel Efficient Cars, the co-CEO & director for William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, and Ezekiel Emanuel & Rahm I. Emanuel’s brother.
Ezekiel Emanuel
is Ari Emanuel & Rahm
I. Emanuel’s brother, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and was the health care policy adviser
for the Barack Obama administration.
Rahm
I. Emanuel is Ari Emanuel & Ezekiel Emanuel’s brother, the Chicago (IL) mayor, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was the White House chief of staff
for the Barack Obama administration.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory
Please note: This link for the
members of the Commercial Club of Chicago can no longer be found.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
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