http://www.deathofapresident.comNEWMARKET FILMS and FILM4\npresent\nA BOROUGH FILMS PRODUCTION\n\nDEATH OF A PRESIDENT \n\nDirected by Gabriel Range\n\nWinner, International Critics Prize (FIPRESCI)\n2006 Toronto Film Festival\n\nFilmmakers\n\n Directer GABRIEL RANGE\n Screenplay GABRIEL RANGE\n SIMON FINCH\n Producers GABRIELRANGE\n SIMON FINCH\n ED GUINEY\n ROBIN GUTCH\n Line Producers DONALL McCUSKER\n CHRISTINA VAROTISIS \n Executive Producers LIZA MARSHALL\n PETER CARLTON\n Director of Photography GRAHAM SMITH\n Editor BRAND THUMIM\n Composer RICHARD HARVEY\n Production Designer GARY BAUGH\n Costume Supervisor EILEEN McCAHILL\n Casting CINDY TOLAN\n Sound Mixer ALEX RIORDAN\n 1st Assistant Director MICHAEL SHEA\n Script Supervisor HEATHER POLLACK\n VFX Supervisor ROB HARVEY\n Archive Researcher STEVE BERGSON\n \nCast\n\n Zahra Abi Zikri HEND AYOUB\n Larry Stafford BRIAN BOLAND\n Eleanor Drake BECKY ANN BAKER\n Greg Turner ROBERT MANGIARDI\n Sam McCarthy JAY PATTERSON\n Frank Molini JAY WHITTAKER\n Robert H. Maguire MICHAEL REILLY BURKE\n Dr. James Pearn JAMES URBANIAK\n Casey Claybon M. NEKO PARHAM\n Samir Masri SEENA JON\n John Rucinski CHRISTIAN STOLTE\n Marianne Claybon CHAVEZ RAVINE\n Patricia Buckley DAWN NEWTON\n Adam Brock PATRICK CLEAR \n Jamal Abu Zikri MALIK BADER\n Al Claybon TONY DALE\n\n\nWinner of the International Critics\' Prize at the Toronto Film Festival,\" \"DEATH OF A PRESIDENT\" is conceived as a fictional TV documentary broadcast in 2008, reflecting on another monstrously despicable and cataclysmic event: the assassination of President George W. Bush on October 19th, 2007. The \"documentary\" combines archival footage and carefully composed interviews, presented in a respectful and dignified manner. Exciting and questioning, it refashions the event into a riveting story.\n\nThe film opens with the ferocious energy of a Tarantino or Oliver Stone movie, as frenetically edited archival footage thrusts us into a raging crowd of protesters, waiting for President Bush\'s procession. The President is portrayed as a sympathetic and likable man—beloved by those close to him and charming to his followers. As the President gives a patriotic speech inside a hotel, the demonstrators\' fury increases to the breaking point. The tension mounts until the horrible instant where the President is assassinated.\n\nAfter the assassination, the film shifts into the style of a mystery, and follows the FBI\'s hunt for the assassin. All the suspects are interviewed except one—the Syrian man who is convicted and put on death row. There is much circumstantial evidence against him. But is he guilty of the crime? Or does his being Middle Eastern provide a convenient excuse to label the death of the President as an Act of Terror?\n\nDirector Gabriel Range previously used the device of a \"retrospective documentary\" in his celebrated 2003 film \"The Day Britain Stopped,\" about a chain of events that led to a breakdown of the country\'s transport system and nearly a hundred fatalities. Both of these films have been acclaimed for the technical virtuosity with which they combine archival footage and filmed scenes to create disturbingly real visions of catastrophes. \n \n\"Death of a President\" was honored by The International Critics Prize Jury (FIPRESCI) at Toronto for \"the audacity withwhich it distorts reality, to reveal a larger truth.\" assassination, bush, death, george, movie, president, sex, trailer, w.