Charles Ferguson brought an acadamicians sensibility to NO END IN SIGHT, his film debut, which won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance this year. This is hardly a surprise and neither is his bookish demeanor, considering his degree in political science from MIT, the three books on techonology to his credit, and his time with the Brookings Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations. When I spoke with him on July 20, 2007, the conversation was as erudite as his resume as he pondered where the morass of the occupation in Iraq began, whether transplanting the parliamentary procedure known as “a vote of no confidence” would have helped to avoid it, and how founding a technology company isn’t entirely unlike making a movie.
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