Michael Moore - World Renowned filmmaker in Dublin for special IFTA Academy Screening & Discussion

Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is coming to Dublin for a special IFTA Academy screening & Discussion of his new film ‘Where to Invade Next’.

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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 which takes place at the IFI on Monday 13th June. The Irish Academy will also hold a separate private IFTA Masterclass event (the following day) in association with Screen Training Ireland, specifically designed for Irish documentary filmmakers in which Moore will generously share his knowledge and expertise, which has become a vibrant and popular genre in Ireland in recent years.

IFTA CEO, Áine Moriarty said:
“The Irish Academy is delighted to host these two events giving Irish audiences and Irish filmmakers the opportunity to engage first-hand with Michael Moore, whose unique voice and award winning documentary work has blazed a trail internationally”.

Michael Moore was born in Flint, Michigan. He became an Eagle Scout, attended the seminary for the Catholic priesthood, and at age 18 became the youngest elected official in the country. At 22, he founded The Flint Voice, a nationally recognised alternative newspaper. In 1989, Moore made his first film, the box office record breaking Roger & Me, which gave birth to the modern-day documentary movement. Moore went on to break the documentary box office record two more times with his 2002 Academy Award®-winning film Bowling for Columbine and the Palme d'Or-winning Fahrenheit 9/11. Other notable films include the Oscar-nominated Sicko and Capitalism: A Love Story and he also won an Emmy Award for his series TV Nation.

Recognised as one of America's top-selling nonfiction authors, Moore has also written eight books including Dude, Where's My Country? and 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.. His 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.

In his latest film, the wryly titled Where to Invade Next, which is his first since 2009’s Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore is in unusually mellow form, though as impassioned as ever, as he travels around Europe cherry-picking those social innovations which he feels could be laid claim to for the betterment of American society. From the Finnish education systems to Norwegian prisons, French school dinners to the treatment received by those bankers responsible for Iceland’s financial crisis, it takes something of a romantic perspective, with an unashamed focus on the positive elements of the countries visited – in his own words, he is “picking flowers, not weeds.”

Moore currently lives in Traverse City, Michigan, where he founded the Traverse City Film Festival and two art house movie palaces, the State Theatre and the Bijou by the Bay.

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Where to Invade Next

Written and directed by Oscar winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11) in his first film in six years, Where To Invade Next, in the style of a travelogue and with the filmmakers trademark acerbic satirical viewpoint in tow, 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.

About Micheal Moore

Widely cited as one of the best documentary filmmakers of all time, Michael Moore is also one of the primary reasons for documentary film coming more into the mainstream in the past 20 years. His 2002 film Bowling For Columbine, probing the culture of guns in America, 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 Seller’s List, including a massive eight weeks at number one.

His documentaries and writings are acclaimed for his trademark satirical voice. Moore is also noted for his political activism and in 2005, Time magazine named Moore one of the world's 100 most influential people.