Writing
Zachary Sklar
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Zachary Sklar is a screenwriter, journalist, author, and editor. He is best known as co-author, with Oliver Stone, of the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the film JFK. His other screen credits include La Fiesta del Chivo (Feast of the Goat) and Hanyut (Almayer's Folly). He leads the screenwriting section of the Harlem Dramatic Writing Workshop and has served as a creative adviser for Sundance Screenwriting Labs around the world, from Utah to Mexico, Jordan, Turkey, Greece, Australia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Cuba. He also taught magazine writing at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism for a decade. As a journalist, he has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nati…
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7.6Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
JFK
1991
5.4Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.
The Feast of the Goat
2006
5.8This spellbinding documentary re-examines the issues raised by Oliver Stone's JFK, and explores the late Jim Garrison's contention that there was a "second conspiracy" to cover up the truth, including attempts to ruin his own reputation.
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
1993
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7.6Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
JFK
1991
5.4Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.
The Feast of the Goat
2006