Rick Rowley

Academy Award-nominated documentarian Rick Rowley's films explore the hefty themes of war and protest in the modern world. Rowley earned praise for "This Is What Democracy Looks Like" (2000), an unflinching documentary that chronicled the 1999 Seattle street protests against the World Trade Organization Summit, and eventually went on to explore the centuries-old civil unrest between the Israelis and Palestinians in "The Fourth World War" (2003). However, it was "Dirty Wars" (2013), Rowley's film about covert American military operations in the ongoing War on Terror, that earned his first Oscar nomination. Rick Rowley quickly proved his worth as one of the few documentarians of his generation whose films serve the sole purpose of communicating important social messages to a broad swath of the American public.