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Presents
CHARLOTTE STREET FILMS production

an EDGEWOOD WAY production
a BBC/ITVS/ZDF co-production
THE HOUSE I LIVE IN

a film by Eugene Jarecki
2012 | 108’| HD | 16:9 | USA
directors of photography SAM CULLMAN DEREK HALLQUIST editor PAUL FROST music ROBERT MILLER
executive producers DAVID ALCARO JOSLYN BARNES SALLY JO FIFER NICK FRASER DANNY GLOVER
JOHN LEGEND BRAD PITT RUSSELL SIMMONS producers EUGENE JARECKI MELINDA SHOPSIN written &
directed by EUGENE JARECKI
trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6eVxRk11go
Dogwoof Global – The House I Live In – Press Notes
SHORT SYNOPSIS
For over forty years, America's "War on Drugs" has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the
world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities at home and abroad. Yet for all that, drugs in
America are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than twenty
U.S. states, THE HOUSE I LIVE IN captures heart-wrenching stories at all levels of America's drug war -
from the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal
judge. Together, these stories pose urgent questions: What caused the war? What perpetuates it? And
what can be done to stop it?
LONG SYNOPSIS
Over the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has cost more than $1 trillion dollars and accounted for over
45 million arrests. The US incarcerates almost 25% of the prisoners in the entire world although we
have only 5% of the world’s population.
Black individuals comprise 13% of the US population and 14% of drug users, yet they are 37% of the
people arrested for drug offenses and 56% of those incarcerated for drug crimes.
As America remains embroiled in conflict overseas, a less visible war is taking place at home, costing
countless lives, destroying families, and inflicting untold damage on future generations of Americans.
Over forty years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the
world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities at home and abroad. Yet for all that, drugs are
cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before.
Filmed in more than twenty states, THE HOUSE I LIVE IN captures heart-wrenching stories from
individuals at all levels of America’s War on Drugs. From the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics
officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge, the film offers a penetrating look inside
America’s longest war, offering a definitive portrait and revealing its profound human rights
implications.
While recognizing the seriousness of drug abuse as a matter of public health, the film investigates the
tragic errors and shortcomings that have meant it is more often treated as a matter for law
enforcement, creating a vast machine that feeds largely on America’s poor, and especially on minority
communities. Beyond simple misguided policy, the film examines how political and economic corruption
have fueled the war for forty years, despite persistent evidence of its moral, economic, and practical
failures.
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FESTIVAL AWARDS
Grand Jury Prize U.S Documentary at Sundance 2012

REACT to FILM Social Impact Award at Silverdocs 2012
Audience Award at Transatlantyk 2012
2012 FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
Sundance Film Festival

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Festival
Los Angeles Film Festival
Sundance London (London, UK)
Sheffield Doc/Fest (Sheffield, UK)
Jerusalem International Film Festival (Jerusalem, Israel)
Melbourne International Film Festival (Melbourne, Australia)
Bergen International Film Festival (Bergen, Norway)
Abu Dhabi Film Festival (Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Mumbai Film Festival (Mumbai, India)
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DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
I have been thinking about making this film for over 20 years.
I first met Nannie Jeter, a prominent character in the film, when I was just a few days old coming home
from the hospital. From that day on, she became a second mother to me, and her children and
grandchildren a second family. I am white and Nannie and her family are black, and growing up in the
wake of the civil rights movement, I think I imagined we were all living in a post-racial America – a place
of greater equality and justice. Yet, as we grew older, our paths diverged – where I found privilege and
opportunity, Nannie’s family found a new kind of struggle that re-emerged with a vengeance for black
Americans in the post civil rights era.
When I asked Nannie what had happened, she felt that it was chiefly the rise of drugs in America that
had ravaged the lives of people in her family. But the more I talked to experts in drug abuse, the more I
heard the same thing – that whatever damage drugs do to people has been made far worse by the laws
America has enacted to stop drugs. Suddenly, the so-called “war on drugs” began rising into view as
something I had to investigate and better understand. I wanted to know what it was that had most
fundamentally hurt people I love.
With this in mind, I began interviewing people across the country whose families had been pulled into a
vicious cycle of drugs and the criminal justice system. Alongside dealers, users and their family
members, I spoke to police, wardens, judges, medical experts, and others to begin to understand how it
was that America came to launch a war against her own people.
I interviewed experts who broadened my understanding of the subject in ways I wanted to share with
others. I learned that drug abuse is ultimately a matter of public health that has instead been treated as
an opportunity for law enforcement and an expanding criminal justice system. I spoke with scientists
desperate for a drug policy based on data rather than rhetoric. I saw how this misguided approach has
helped make America the world’s largest jailer, imprisoning her citizens at a higher rate per capita than
any other nation on earth, and how the drug war has become America’s longest war, now entering its
40th year and having cost more than a trillion dollars.
For people to understand the scale and urgency of this crisis, I felt that facts, figures, and expert
testimony weren’t enough, so I sought out individuals whose lives were directly and deeply shaped by
the war on drugs, hoping their stories would reveal some of the everyday tragedies left in its wake.
Ultimately, with my beloved Nannie Jeter as its inspiration, THE HOUSE I LIVE IN grew into a larger
examination of race, class and capitalism in America -- of a tragically misguided system that preys upon
those least fortunate among us to sustain itself.
Eugene Jarecki, New York NY
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FILMMAKERS
Eugene Jarecki (Director, Writer &

Producer) is an award-winning
filmmaker, public thinker, and author.
His recent film REAGAN, which
examines the life and legacy of the 40th
president, received wide critical acclaim
after premiering at the Sundance Film
Festival and on HBO for the occasion of
Reagan’s 100th birthday. In 2010, Jarecki
worked alongside Morgan Spurlock and
Alex Gibney as director of a
documentary film inspired by the
bestselling book FREAKONOMICS.
Earlier that year, he directed Move Your
Money, a short online film encouraging
Americans to move their money from
“too big to fail” banks to well-rated community banks and credit unions. The film went viral, becoming
an online sensation with over 7 million hits in just its first three weeks online.
Jarecki’s 2006 film, WHY WE FIGHT, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and a
Peabody Award, has been broadcast in over forty countries and released theatrically in over 250 US
cities. In 2009, Simon & Schuster published Jarecki’s acclaimed book, The American Way of War: Guided
Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril, which explores how militarism disfigures America’s
foreign and defense policies as well as her broader national priorities.
Jarecki’s prior film, THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER was released in over 130 U.S. cities and won the
2002 Amnesty International Award, was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and has been
broadcast in over thirty countries. In 2002, TRIALS was selected to launch BBC’s prestigious digital
channel BBC4 and the Sundance Channel’s documentary division.
In addition to his work in film, Jarecki is also a thinker on international affairs, and has appeared on The
Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Charlie Rose, The Colbert Report, FOX News, CNN, PBS NOW, BBC World,
NPR, MTV, The Tavis Smiley Show, Current TV, Clear Channel, Pacifica Radio, and Sirius Radio as well as
having been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the Daily News,
the Village Voice.
Filmography: The House I Live In (2012) | Reagan (2011) | Freakonomics (2010) | Why We Fight (2006)
| The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)
Melinda Shopsin (Producer) began her production experience working at Radical Media in London. She
served as Production Coordinator for THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER (2002) and as head of
development for the 2005 film WHY WE FIGHT (winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film
Festival and a Peabody Award). She Co-produced REAGAN (2011) as well as FREAKONOMICS (2010) and
currently serves as Executive In Charge of Production for Charlotte Street Films.
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Robert Miller (Composer) is a prolific composer of film, concert, and commercial music. His distinctive
style has made its mark on over 1800 commercials, a growing body of film scores, as well as works for
concert and the stage. Over the years, his talent and passion have garnered him six CLIO awards, an AICP
award and three Emmy nominations. His film work includes the Lionsgate/Weinstein company release,
TEETH; the 2005 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, WHY WE FIGHT; the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival Best
Feature winner, RED DOORS; His newest film work includes the score for Richard Bowen’s CINDERLLA
MOON, a cinematic re-telling of the original Cinderella story from 768 A.D. China; HBO Films’ REAGAN,
directed by Eugene Jarecki; and another fruitful collaboration with Jon Hock on THE REZ, the story of an
American Indian basketball star named Shoni Schimmel that premiered at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival.
Paul Frost (Editor) is an editor working in narrative and documentary film as well as television.
Beginning in 2009, Paul worked on a number of Jarecki’s projects, including MOVE YOUR MONEY
(featured on the Huffington Post and The Colbert Report), FREAKONOMICS, and REAGAN. Paul got his
start in documentary working on DOUBLETIME with director Stephanie Johnes. He has also worked on a
handful of narrative films, including one from legendary auteur, Melvin Van Peebles. Prior to his work in
the US, Paul lived in Germany for a year where he worked on syndicated television, capping off his
international experience by presenting the German Bundestag with a documentary short he produced
and edited, which is included among the German National Archives. Paul’s television editing includes
work for the Style Network, the Discovery Channel, and Logo.
Sam Cullman (Director of Photography) Sam Cullman is a cinematographer, producer, and director of
documentaries. He recently partnered with director Marshall Curry to co-direct, shoot and produce IF A
TREE FALLS (2011), an Academy Award nominated feature-length documentary that offers a behind-the-
curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental group that the FBI calls America’s
“number one domestic terrorist threat.” Cullman's other cinematography credits include KING CORN
(2006), a Peabody award-winning documentary for ITVS, Eugene Jarecki’s WHY WE FIGHT (2005) and
REAGAN (2011); WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY? (2007), LOCKUP: INSIDE ANGOLA (2008) and THE FARM: 10
DOWN (2009), both follow-ups to Stacks' THE FARM: ANGOLA, USA (1998). He is also starting post-
production on BLACK CHEROKEE, a short he also shot and directed (with Benjamin Rosen) about a self-
taught New York City street artist.
Derek Hallquist (Director of Photography) began his professional career as a camera operator for
numerous television shows on networks such as Discovery, Travel and TLC. After four years in Los
Angeles and his first season as a Director of Photography on My First Home, he moved back to Vermont
where he founded his production company, Green River Pictures, LLC, and it is in Burlington that he has
rekindled his love for journalism and documentary. He has worked as a Camera Operator and Director of
Photography on numerous Jarecki films including REAGAN and FREAKONOMICS. Concurrently, he has
spent the past three years working on his first feature documentary about energy, which follows the
path to our 21st century energy grid.
Danny Glover (Executive Producer) is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Louverture Films. In
addition to being one of the most acclaimed actors of our time, with a career spanning 30 years from
PLACES IN THE HEART, THE COLOR PURPLE, THE LETHAL WEAPON series and the award-winning TO
SLEEP WITH ANGER, Danny Glover has also Produced, Executive Produced and financed numerous
projects for film, television and theatre. Among these are GOOD FENCES, 3 AM, FREEDOM SONG, GET
ON THE BUS, DEADLY VOYAGE, BUFFALO SOLDIERS, THE SAINT OF FORT WASHINGTON and TO SLEEP
WITH ANGER, as well as the series Courage and America's Dream. Since co-founding Louverture Films,
Glover has executive produced BAMAKO, AFRICA UNITE, TROUBLE THE WATER, SALT OF THIS SEA,
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SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION, DUM MAARO DUM, and the forthcoming BLACK POWER MIXTAPE
and THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MCKINLEY NOLAN. He has associate produced THE TIME THAT REMAINS
and the 2010 Cannes Palme d'Or winner UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES.
John Legend (Executive Producer) is a recording artist, concert performer and philanthropist who has
won nine Grammy awards and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people.
Throughout his career, John has worked to make a difference in the lives of others. In 2007, he launched
the Show Me Campaign (ShowMeCampaign.org), an initiative that uses education to break the cycle of
poverty. John sits on the Boards of Teach for America, Stand for Children and the Harlem Village
Academies and co-chairs the Harlem Village Academies’ National Leadership Board. He serves on the
Advisory Council for Turnaround and is an “IRC Voice” for the International Rescue Committee. In 2007,
John was named spokesman for GQ Magazine's "Gentlemen's Fund", an initiative to raise support and
awareness for five cornerstones essential to men: opportunity, health, education, environment, and
justice.
Brad Pitt (Executive Producer) is the Founder of Make It Right, Co-Chair of the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, and
an award-winning actor and film producer. Pitt received Academy Award® nominations for his
performances in Bennett Miller’s “Moneyball,” David Fincher’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
and Terry Gilliam's "Twelve Monkeys," for which he won a Golden Globe Award. He has starred in and
produced Andrew Dominik’s “Killing Them Softly” as well as Terry Malick’s “The Tree of Life” which won
the Palme d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. His production company, Plan B Entertainment, has
thus far produced many films such as Martin Scorsese's "The Departed," Robert Schwentke’s “The Time
Traveler’s Wife,” Matthew Vaughn’s “Kickass,” and both Ryan Murphy's "Running with Scissors," and
“Eat Pray Love”. Pitt won the 2012 New York Film Critics Circle award, National Society of Film Critics
award, Desert Palm Achievement award, and was listed at the top of TIME Magazine’s Best Movie
Performances of the Year, for his work in “The Tree of Life” and “Moneyball.” He has recently wrapped
Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave” and is currently starring in and producing Marc Forster’s “World
War Z” for Paramount Pictures.
Russell Simmons (Executive Producer) is the Chairman and CEO of Rush Communications. USA Today
named him one of the “Top 25 Most Influential People of the Past 25 Years,” calling him a “hip-hop
pioneer” for his groundbreaking vision that has influenced music, fashion, finance, the jewellery industry,
television and film, as well as the face of modern philanthropy. From creating his seminal Def Jam
Recordings in 1984, to his fashion industry changing brands, to founding UniRush in 2003 providing
instant access to a set of basic financial services for over 48 million Americans who could not previously
establish traditional banking relationships, Russell is recognized globally for his influence and
entrepreneurial approach to both business and philanthropy. Russell also leads the non-profit division of
his empire, Rush Community Affairs, and its ongoing commitment to empowering at-risk youth through
education, the arts, social engagement, and promoting racial harmony and strengthening inter-group
relations.
Nick Fraser (Executive Producer) has been editor of BBC Storyville since it started in 1997. His published
works include a biography of Eva Peron and The Voice of Modern Hatred, a study of extremism and race
hate in contemporary Europe. He is proud of being a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine in New
York, “the best magazine in the world”, in which his essays about the BBC, Isaiah Berlin and anti-
Americanism have been published. In recent years films shown on Storyville have won many major
awards, including an Oscar, a Grand Jury prize at Sundance, multiple Griersons and Emmys. A sampling
of films Fraser has produced while at Storyville are as follows: CONTROL ROOM, THE REVOLUTION WILL
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NOT BE TELEVISED, WHY WE FIGHT, THE LIBERACE OF BAGHDAD, ENRON, THE TRIALS OF HENRY
KISSINGER, THE AMERICAN RULING CLASS, PEACE ONE DAY, and NEVERLAND: THE RISE AND FALL OF
THE SYMBIONESE LIBERATION ARMY.
Joslyn Barnes (Executive Producer) is a screenwriter and Emmy nominated producer. She is the author
or co-author of numerous commissioned screenplays for feature films including the upcoming epic
TOUSSAINT and the award-winning film BÀTTU, directed by Cheikh Oumar Sissoko (Mali), which she
Associate Produced. Among the films Barnes has executive produced or produced since co-founding
Louverture Films are the award-winning features BAMAKO and SALT OF THIS SEA, Sundance Grand Jury
Prize winner and Oscar and Emmy nominated TROUBLE THE WATER, Oscar shortlisted SOUNDTRACK
FOR A REVOLUTION, Bollywood thriller DUM MAARO DUM, and the award-winning BLACK POWER
MIXTAPE. Barnes also wrote and directed the short film PRANA for Cinétévé France as part of an
internationally distributed series of 30 short films to promote awareness of environmental issues.
WAR ON DRUGS STATISTICS

 Over the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has cost more than $1 trillion dollars and accounted for
more than 45 million arrests
 Today, there are more people behind bars for nonviolent drug offenses than were incarcerated
for all crimes, violent or otherwise, in 1970.
 In 2009 nearly 1.7 million people were arrested in the US for nonviolent drug charges.
 Between 1973 and 2009, the nation’s prison population grew by 705 percent, resulting
today in more than 1 in 100 adults behind bars.
 To return to the nation’s incarceration rates of 1970, America would have to release 4 out of
every 5 currently held prisoners.
 The U.S. accounts for 5% of the world’s population and 25% of its prison population.
 1 in every 8 state employees works for a corrections agency.
 It costs an average of $78.95 per day to keep an inmate locked up, more than 20 times the cost of
a day on probation.
 In a 2010 survey, 8.9% of Americans over the age of 12 had used illicit drugs in the past month.
 Of the 1,841,182 arrests for drug law violations in 2007, 82.5% were for possession and only
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17.5% were for the sale or manufacture of a drug.

 Marijuana arrests make up more than half of all the drug arrests in the US, and nearly 90% of
those are charges for possession only.
 African-Americans make up roughly 13% of the US population and 14% of its drug users. Yet, they
represent 56% of those incarcerated for drug crimes.
 Since 1986, though crack and powder cocaine are chemically the same, there has been a 100 to 1
disparity in the sentencing of crack cocaine vs. powder cocaine offenses. This has accounted for
a vast disproportion of crack users going to prison over the past 25 years. In 2010, after decades
of protest from judges and activists, this disparity was reduced to 18:1.
CHARACTER I.D.’S
Michelle Alexander is a civil rights litigator and author of The New Jim Crow.
Shanequa Benitez lives in Cromwell Towers, a housing project in Yonkers, New York.
The Honorable Mark Bennett is a U.S. District Court Judge Sioux City, Iowa.
Charles Bowden is a journalist covering drug war violence on the US-Mexico border.
Mike Carpenter is Chief of Security at Lexington Corrections Center, Oklahoma.
Larry Cearly is the Marshall of Magdalena, New Mexico.
Eric Franklin is Warden of Lexington Corrections Center, Oklahoma.
Maurice Haltiwanger is currently serving 20 years for crack cocaine distribution.
Dr. Carl Hart is a tenured Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at Columbia University.
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Nannie Jeter lives in New Haven Connecticut, where she first met the film’s director when he was a
child.
Anthony Johnson is a former small-time drug dealer from Yonkers, New York.
Gabor Maté is a Hungarian-born physician specializing in the treatment of addiction.
Mark Mauer is director of the Sentencing Project and one of the country’s leading criminal justice
experts.
Richard Lawrence Miller is an American historian and expert on the history of drug laws.
Charles Ogletree is the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a former academic
advisor to Barack and Michelle Obama.
Kevin Ott is currently serving life without parole on drug charges at the Lexington Correctional Center in
Lexington Oklahoma.
Susan Randall has worked as a private investigator in Vermont for over a decade.
David Simon is creator of the acclaimed HBO series The Wire.
Julie Stewart is president and founder of Families Against Mandatory Minimums, a national organization
working to change mandatory sentencing laws.
Dennis Whidbee is a former drug dealer and the father of Anthony Johnson.
CREDITS
A film by Eugene Jarecki
Executive Producers Nick Fraser

Joslyn Barnes
Danny Glover
Music Robert Miller
Editor Paul Frost
Produced by Eugene Jarecki

Melinda Shopsin
Written and Directed by Eugene Jarecki
Lead Producer Melinda Shopsin
Executive Producers Roy Ackerman

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David Alcaro
Producers Samuel Cullman

Christopher St. John
Archival Producer Daniel DiMauro
Co-Producer Shirel Kozak
Consulting Producer Alexandra Johnes
Production Manager Kara Elverson
Directors of Photography Sam Cullman

Derek Hallquist
Technical Supervisor Joe Beirne
Music Supervisor John McCullough
Additional Editing Simon Barker

Anoosh Tertzakian
Daniel DiMauro
Key Advisor Claudia Becker
Production Designer Joe Posner
Story Development Christopher St. John
Co-Producers Kathleen Fournier

Alessandra Meyer
Additional Camera Etienne Sauret

Joe di Gennaro
Christopher Li
Matt Boyd
Taylor Krauss
David Sperling
Kathryn Westergaard
Lili Chin
Joe Posner
Robert Hatch-Miller
Sound Recordists Matthew Freed

Timothy McConville
Arthur R. Jaso
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Head Researcher Dan DiMauro
Researchers Shirel Kozak

Meg Charlton
Anoosh Tertzakian
Patrick O'Brien
Nora Colie
Julia Simpson
First Assistant Editor Anoosh Tertzakian
Second Assistant Editors Robert Hatch-Miller

Patrick O'Brien
Field Correspondents Melinda Shopsin

Kara Elverson
Creative Consultants Peter Schmidt-Nowara

Ed Eglin
David Kuhn
Production Assistants Patrick O’Brien

Ben Cortes
Sophia Figuereo
Akil Gibbons
Production Intern Isabelle Fraser

Ian Greenspan
Motion Graphics Joe Posner
Post Production Supervisor Melinda Shopsin
Post Production Services Postworks
Colorist/Online Editor Benjamin Murray
Assistant Online Editors Ryan McMahon
Re-recording Mixer Christopher Koch, CAS
Audio Post Assistants Randy Matuszewski

Eric Distefano
Dialog Editor Ron Bochar

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Transcription Services Irina Grobman

Karen Holmes
Liza Mueller
Scott Rogowsky
Rachel Young
Legal Counsel The Law Firm of Rosalind Lichter
E&O Legal Counsel F. Robert Stein
Production Insurance Kent Hamilton

Mike Groner
Megan Medrano
Production Accountants Hermes Laoudas

Yelena Kirzhner
Tim Wells
Piano and Orchestration Robert Miller
Violin Jonathan Dinklage
Nylon Acoustic Guitar Peter Calo
Music Mixers/Engineers Chris Kedzie

Nick Tuttle
Music Production Coordinator Megan Kate Campbell
Additional Score Pete Miser
Commissioning Editor for BBC Storyville Nick Fraser
Commissioning Editor for ZDF/ARTE Hans Robert Eisenhauer
Executive Producer for ITVS Sally Jo Fifer
Commissioning Editor for SVT Axel Arno
In Association with Aljazeera Documentary Channel

VPRO
Louverture
NHK
SBS-TV Australia
BBC Business Affairs Jason Emerton
ZDF/arte Production Manager Christian Schwalbe

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Vice President of Programming: ITVS Claire Aguilar
Director of Production: ITVS Richard O'Connell
Senior Producer: NHK Imamura Ken-ichi
Aljazeera Head of Production Montaser Marai
VPRO Head of Documentary Acq. Nathalie Windhorst
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CHARLOTTE STREET FILMS production

THE HOUSE I LIVE IN

Grand Jury Prize U.S Documentary at Sundance 2012

2012 FESTIVAL SCREENINGS

Sundance Film Festival

Eugene Jarecki, New York NY

Eugene Jarecki (Director, Writer &

WAR ON DRUGS STATISTICS

17.5% were for the sale or manufacture of a drug.

Mike Carpenter is Chief of Security at Lexington Corrections Center, Oklahoma.

Larry Cearly is the Marshall of Magdalena, New Mexico.

Eric Franklin is Warden of Lexington Corrections Center, Oklahoma.

Maurice Haltiwanger is currently serving 20 years for crack cocaine distribution.

Dr. Carl Hart is a tenured Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at Columbia University.

Gabor Maté is a Hungarian-born physician specializing in the treatment of addiction.

David Simon is creator of the acclaimed HBO series The Wire.

Executive Producers Nick Fraser

Music Robert Miller

Editor Paul Frost

Produced by Eugene Jarecki

Written and Directed by Eugene Jarecki

Lead Producer Melinda Shopsin

Executive Producers Roy Ackerman

Producers Samuel Cullman

Archival Producer Daniel DiMauro

Co-Producer Shirel Kozak

Consulting Producer Alexandra Johnes

Production Manager Kara Elverson

Directors of Photography Sam Cullman

Technical Supervisor Joe Beirne

Music Supervisor John McCullough

Additional Editing Simon Barker

Key Advisor Claudia Becker

Production Designer Joe Posner

Story Development Christopher St. John

Co-Producers Kathleen Fournier

Additional Camera Etienne Sauret

Sound Recordists Matthew Freed

Head Researcher Dan DiMauro

Researchers Shirel Kozak

First Assistant Editor Anoosh Tertzakian

Second Assistant Editors Robert Hatch-Miller

Field Correspondents Melinda Shopsin

Creative Consultants Peter Schmidt-Nowara

Production Assistants Patrick O’Brien

Production Intern Isabelle Fraser

Motion Graphics Joe Posner

Post Production Supervisor Melinda Shopsin

Post Production Services Postworks

Colorist/Online Editor Benjamin Murray

Assistant Online Editors Ryan McMahon

Re-recording Mixer Christopher Koch, CAS

Audio Post Assistants Randy Matuszewski

Dialog Editor Ron Bochar

Transcription Services Irina Grobman

Legal Counsel The Law Firm of Rosalind Lichter

E&O Legal Counsel F. Robert Stein

Production Insurance Kent Hamilton