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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room - Film
Screening at Pomona College
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Pomona College will screen the film Enron: The Smartest
Guys in the Room, ahead of its national release, on
Thursday, March 24 at 4:15 p.m., the Hahn Building (Room
101), 420 N. Harvard Ave., Claremont. The 110-minute film, which is based on
the book of the same name by reporters Bethany McLean and
Peter Elkind, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in
January. Alex Gibney, the film’s director and screenwriter,
will attend the screening and answer questions.
The film is a captivating behind-the-scenes look at Enron’s
dramatic fall, told through a series of rapidly paced
interviews, corporate footage, news reports and
Congressional hearings. The film focuses on Enron executives
ex-chairman Ken Lay, ex-CEO Jeffrey Skilling and ex-CFO
Andrew Fastow. In addition to the two Fortune writers
Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, many former employees,
lawyers, analysts, authors, politicians and even a few
cartoon characters contributed to the film. A significant
portion of the film is spent on California’s energy crises
and features the audiotapes of Enron traders callously
exploiting the state’s energy crisis.
“Densely packed, with a world of information for the
sophisticate and neophyte alike, Enron is riveting,
muckraking filmmaking that should make any culture critic of
the 1990s proud,” notes Geoffrey Gilmore in the Sundance
program. “With this film, Gibney has fashioned a history
lesson that takes us ‘inside’ the headquarters of the
seventh-largest corporation in the United States and
illustrates…the ‘new economy’ of the 1990s: a climate where
companies sold ideas rather than widgets, and a corporate
culture where ethics became as old fashioned and out of date
as value investing.”
Alex Gibney, an Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and
director, is currently executive-producing Exiles on Main
Street, a series of short films directed by Wayne Wang, Mira
Nair, and Sherman Alexie, among others. He recently produced
Lightning in a Bottle, which premiered at the 2004 Berlin
International Film Festival and served as series producer
for The Blues, an Emmy-nominated group of seven films
broadcast on PBS. He also wrote, directed, and produced The
Pacific Century, a 10-hour documentary series that won an
Emmy and the Dupont-Columbia Award.
The film screening is organized by the Pacific Basin
Institute at Pomona College, which is dedicated to expanding
and enhancing comity and shared knowledge among the nations
and cultures on the Pacific Ocean. Pomona College has been a
leader in Asian Studies among American college and
universities since the turn of the past century. For more
information on the film screening, call (909) 607-8065.
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