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WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN LADEN?

Synopsis

If Morgan Spurlock has learned anything from over 30 years of movie-watching, it's that if the world needs saving, it's best done by one lone man willing to face danger head on to take it down, action hero style.

So, with no military experience, knowledge or expertise, he sets off to do what the CIA, FBI and countless bounty hunters have failed to do: find the world's most wanted man. Why take on such a seemingly impossible mission? Simple-he wants to make the world safe for his soon to be born child. But before he finds Osama bin Laden, he first needs to learn where he came from, what makes him tick, and most importantly, what exactly created bin Laden to begin with.

In WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN LADEN?, Oscar nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock takes on a franchise even more lethal than McDonald's-Al Qaeda. And after this real life action thriller is over, the world may never be the same.

Following bin Laden's trail through some of the most dangerous places in the world, Spurlock encounters both the rational and the radical faces of the Middle East. He interviews many people who embrace him on the streets and welcome him into their homes, often gaining impressions that sharply contrast with the conventional media images of the region. Spurlock finds they're not that different from American families, sharing the same hopes and fears for their children that he has for his own.

In a world where we are constantly being told that we're on the verge of the ultimate showdown between good and evil, Spurlock risks life and limb to uncover the truth about Osama bin Laden. But along the way, he discovers the lines that divide us aren't nearly as black and white as the heroes and villains we see in the Westerns.

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WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN LADEN

About the Filmmakers

MORGAN SPURLOCK (Writer/Producer/Director)
Morgan Spurlock is the writer/producer/director of the Academy Award nominated film Super Size Me. The feature length documentary film was named to more than 35 "Top Ten" lists in 2004 and is currently the 8th highest grossing documentary of all time. The film was also awarded the inaugural Writers Guild of America Documentary Screenplay Award, and the Best Director Prizes at the Sundance and Edinburgh Film Festivals.

In 2006, Spurlock's New York based production company, Warrior Poets, was named to Reel Screen Magazine's Global 100 -- which listed the top 100 producers of non-fiction entertainment in the world.

Also in 2006, Spurlock and Arts Alliance America created a film and distribution partnership which releases films -- theatrically, on television and on DVD -- that they see as groundbreaking and important films that had been overlooked by the majority of filmgoers. Their first film, the Independent Spirit Award nominee, Chalk, a mockumentary about school teachers, premiered theatrically in the summer of 2007 and was followed by the Confessions of a Superhero (2007), Czech Dream (2007), Class Act (2007), The Future of Food (2007), The Third Wave (2008), and What Would Jesus Buy? (2008).

Spurlock has just finished filming the third season of his highly acclaimed F/X original series 30 Days. The show examines social issues in America by immersing individuals in a life that requires them to "see the world through another's eyes," and has been praised by such diverse groups as the Muslim Public Affairs Council and the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law. In 2006, the series was nominated for a Producer's Guild Award and won a GLAAD Media Award for best non-fiction television series. Also, this year, 30 Days was nominated for an IDA (International Documentary Association) award in the category of Best Continuing Documentary Series.

When not producing or directing, Spurlock is involved with many charities, including the Life Rolls On Foundation, where he is a member of the Board of Directors.

He and his vegan wife, Healthy Chef Alexandra Jamieson live in Brooklyn, NY.

JEREMY CHILNICK (Writer/Producer)
Writer/Producer Jeremy Chilnick has worked in the New York entertainment industry since graduating from Syracuse University in 2003. In a short period of time, he has risen to become the Head of Production and Development for Morgan's Spurlock Production Company, Warrior Poets. He Co-Produced the Sri Lankan tsunami documentary The Third Wave, which premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival and which will be released theatrically this Spring. Chilnick also co-produced the critically acclaimed anti-consumerism film What Would Jesus Buy? which played across the country this past Christmas season. In addition to writing the Where in the World script with Spurlock, Chilnick also served as a producer.

DANIEL MARRACINO (Director of Photography)
Daniel Marracino is a first generation Italian American Michiganite from a humble restaurant family. Daniel grew up as a DP on MTV Beach House and Cribs. He also shot VH1's On Parole with Old Dirty Bastard and the Emmy Award winning, DMC: My Adoption Journey (2006). Daniel crossed America for Rob Vanalkamades' What Would Jesus Buy? and shot scenes with Michael Moore in England and France for the acclaimed documentary Sicko.

STACEY OFFMAN (Producer)
Stacey Offman is an accomplished documentary and non-fiction television producer based in New York City. For the past eleven years, she has produced numerous feature length documentaries and a variety of programs and series for the IFC, Comedy Central, F/X Network, History Television and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Recently, Ms. Offman produced the critically acclaimed What Would Jesus Buy?

Prior to producing with Spurlock, she served as supervising producer for Emmy-nominated Borderline TV (`03-`05) and was senior producer for five years with Academy-Award® nominated Paperny Films (`98-`03) in her native Canada. Other producer credits include: KINK, the provocative IDA-nominated documentary series about alternative sexual lifestyles; Star Spangled Canadians, the acclaimed CBC documentary special profiling luminaries Peter Jennings, Graydon Carter and Ivan Reitman; The Boys of Buchenwald, a portrait of holocaust survivors featuring Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel; and the IFC documentary Celluloid Dreams, profiling surrealist filmmakers David Lynch, Jean Pierre Jeunet and Guy Maddin.

Currently, she is producing a feature documentary Faster, which advocates the immense healing power of fasting while investigating grassroots solutions to the deadly eating habits of western society.

GAVIN COLEMAN (Editor)
Gavin Coleman moved to New York almost three years ago from Dublin, Ireland where he had been working on a wide variety of non-fiction and fiction projects. He came to Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? directly from editing the critically acclaimed feature documentary What Would Jesus Buy? It was produced by Morgan Spurlock and Warrior Poets, and directed by Rob VanAlkemade.

JULIE "BOB" LOMBARDI (Editor/Co-Producer)
Julie "Bob" Lombardi was raised on a small farm in Astatula, Florida. Growing up, her dream was to move to New York City to become the next Cyndi Lauper. Although she had the right hair and dance moves to propel her to pop stardom she had no musical ability.

In 2001 she moved to NYC where she thankfully realized this potential snag in her quest for musical world domination and instead began her illustrious career as a documentary film and television editor and producer.

Julie has edited more than 40 hours of television for ABC, MTV, Spike, TLC, VH1, E!, and CourtTV, as well as edited the Academy Award nominated film Super Size Me. Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? is her second film with Morgan Spurlock.

JAMES BRABAZON (Co-Producer)
James Brabazon has worked as a Frontline journalist for the last 13 years. Based in London, he has worked in over 60 countries reporting, filming and directing in the world's most hostile environments.

After reading history at Cambridge University, Brabazon became a contributing reportage photographer for Katz Pictures in London and Gamma Presse Images in Paris, before taking over as executive producer at Nairobi-based television agency Camerapix. Since 2002 he has worked on independent commissions with Discovery, the BBC and Channel 4, for whom he has made 12 films in the critically acclaimed Unreported World series.

Brabazon gained international profile as the only journalist to film the Liberian LURD rebel group fighting to overthrow President Charles Taylor. He spent over 5 months traveling with the rebels on multiple award-winning news and documentary projects, including Liberia: A Journey Without Maps and Liberia: An Uncivil War.

His writing has been published recently by The Saturday Times Magazine, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, The Scotsman Magazine, Arena, The Royal Institute of International Affairs and Harper Collins. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

STUART MACPHEE (Co-Producer/Post Production Supervisor)
Bio forthcoming

ADAM DELL (Executive Producer)
Adam Dell is the Managing General Partner of Impact Venture Partners, a venture capital firm focused on information technology investments. Prior to founding Impact, Mr. Dell was a Partner with Crosspoint Venture Partners in Northern California and a Senior Associate with Enterprise Partners in Southern California. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Mr. Dell worked as a corporate attorney in Austin, Texas with the law firm of Winstead Sechrest & Minick. He received a Bachelors of Arts in Political Economy from Tulane University and a law degree from the University of Texas School of Law. Mr. Dell's investments include: Buzzsaw (ADSK), HotJobs (YHOO) and Connectify (KANA). He currently serves on the board of directors of XO Communications (XOCM.OB), MessageOne and OpenTable and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute. Mr. Dell teaches a course at the Columbia Business School on business, technology and innovation.

STEVEN DELL (Executive Producer)
Steven J. Dell, M. D. is an eye surgeon in private practice in Austin, Texas. He has twice been voted by his peers as one of the top 50 most influential eye surgeons in his field by the worldwide physician readership of the medical journal Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today. He is the inventor of several patented surgical instruments and medical devices used in the field of eye surgery. Dr. Dell serves on the editorial boards of Ocular Surgery News, Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today, The Video Journal of Ophthalmology, and Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today- Europe. Dr. Dell is a Board Certified member of the American Board of Ophthalmology, a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and a member of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. He also serves as a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Ophthalmology at Tulane University in New Orleans. Dr. Dell received a Bachelor of Arts in Zoology from the University of Texas at Austin, a Doctorate from Baylor College of Medicine and completed his Post-doctoral Residency in eye surgery at Tulane University.

JOHN SLOSS (Executive Producer)
John Sloss is the founder of Cinetic Media, and a managing partner and founder of the entertainment law firm Sloss Law Office LLP, both which are based in New York City. Through Cinetic Media, Sloss has facilitated the sale and/or financing of well over 200 films including, Sundance Film Festival hits including Napoleon Dynamite, Little Miss Sunshine and upcoming releases Under the Same Moon, Grace is Gone and No End in Sight, and the high profile 2007 Cannes Film Festival sale of James Gray's We Own The Night. Sloss has executive produced over 50 films including the Academy Award®-winning The Fog of War and Boys Don't Cry, and Before Sunset, Far From Heaven and I'm Not There.

His law clients include Killer Films, Richard Linklater, Kevin Smith, Bob Dylan, Morgan Spurlock, Justin Lin, Jake Kasdan, Endgame Entertainment and Big Beach Films. Prior to founding Sloss Law Office in 1993, Sloss was a partner at the international law firm Morrison & Foerster. Sloss received his J.D. and B.A. from the University of Michigan.

He lives in New York with his daughter Loulou, and son Henry.

AGNES MENTRE (Executive Producer)
Bio forthcoming

VINCENT MARAVEL (Executive Producer)
Bio forthcoming

JON SPURNEY (Composer)
Jon Spurney has composed incidental music for The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central, and was awarded a Bronze Lion at the Cannes Film Festival for his commercial scoring work. He has performed and recorded with David Byrne, John Cale, and Natalie Merchant and provides live piano accompaniment for silent films at the Museum of Modern Art. He is currently serving as co-musical director for the new Broadway musical Passing Strange that will open at the Belasco Theater in February. Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? is his first feature film score.