Charles H. Ferguson
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Charles Henry Ferguson (born March 24, 1955 in San Francisco ) is the founder and president of Representational Pictures, Inc. , film director and film producer .
Life
Charles H. Ferguson is the director, producer and screenwriter of No End In Sight - Invasion of the Amateurs? from 2007 and Inside Job from 2010. No End In Sight - Invasion of the Amateurs? won the 2007 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Documentary Films and was nominated for the 2008 Oscar in the Documentary Film category. Inside Job eventually won the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2010.
Prior to his career as a documentary filmmaker, Ferguson worked in the IT technology field. In 1994 he founded Vermeer Technologies , one of the first internet software companies, together with Randy Forgaard . Vermeer was funded by Matrix Partners, Sigma Partners, and Atlas Venture. Vermeer Technologies developed FrontPage, the first HTML editor . In early 1996, Vermeer was sold for $ 133 million to Microsoft, which integrated FrontPage into the Microsoft Office system as Microsoft FrontPage .
Filmography
- 2007: No End In Sight - Invasion of the Amateurs? (No End in Sight)
- 2010: Inside Job
- 2015: Time to chose
- 2018: Wagtergate (Miniseries)
Fonts
- Computer Wars: The Fall of IBM and the Future of Global Technology , with Charles R. Morris, Three Rivers Press , 1993, ISBN 978-0-8129-2300-1 .
- High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars . WW Norton & Company , 1999, ISBN 978-1-58799-065-6 .
- The Broadband Problem: Anatomy of a Market Failure and a Policy Dilemma . Brookings Institution Press , 2004, ISBN 978-0-8157-0644-1 .
- No End in Sight: Iraq's Descent into Chaos . PublicAffairs , 2008, ISBN 978-1-58648-608-2 .
- Untitled treatment of the documentary "Inside Job" , with Charles R. Morris , Random House , 2012.
Web links
- Charles Ferguson at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Representational Pictures , his film company (English)
- Official website of the film Invasion of the amateurs (English)
- IONCINEMA.com TIFF 2010 Viral: Charles Ferguson's Inside Job (English)
- Interview with KGNU's Claudia Cragg about Inside Job (December 2010) (English; MP3; 21.4 MB)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ferguson, Charles H. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ferguson, Charles Henry (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American filmmaker and founder and President of Representational Pictures, Inc |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco |