Mister President
Emilio Pacull, Maurice Ronai
2008 - 52 min - DV Cam - Couleur - France

America’s politics would now be also America’s favorite movie, America’s first soap opera, America’s best seller.” (Norman Mailer).
In 2008, the election of the President of the United States will have effects beyond America’s frontiers and will influence future world events in far-away countries. What problems will this new President face? How will he react? And what will he (or she) look like? As we try to understand what it means to be President, one of the places we turn to for examples is fiction. Hollywood has fictionalized the lives of numerous real presidents and created dozens of imaginary ones (over 60 films in the last 15 years). Recently, Mr. (or Madam) President has become an international star thanks to TV series (West Wing, 24 Chrono, Commander-in-Chief). Combining clips from films and TV series, archives, interviews (historians, journalists, actors, directors, screenwriters, speechwriters and political analysts) and footage from key Presidential locations: the documentary explores the resources and receipes behind this "Presidential factory” and examines various interconnections between political life and "presidential fiction".