Alumni in the Arts, Tony Gerber ’86 P’20: WAR GAME, Screening and Panel

Alumni in the Arts, Tony Gerber ’86 P’20: WAR GAME, Screening and PanelJoin co-director and writer Tony Gerber ’86 P’20 for a screening of the 2024 Sundance Official Selection Documentary Film, WAR GAME, followed by a panel conversation including Gerber and Brigadier General Peter B. Zwack (Ret) P’16, former United States Senior Defense Official and Attaché to the Russian Federation and member of National Security Leaders for America.A real-life political thriller set on January 6, 2025, WAR GAME imagines a nation-wide insurrection in which members of the US military defect to support the losing Presidential candidate, while the winning candidate and his advisors–played by an all-star roster of senior officials from the last five administrations–war game the crisis in the White House situation room. They have 6 hours to save democracy as the country teeters on the brink of civil war.Registration strongly encouraged.Tony Gerberis an Emmy and PGA award-winning writer, producer, and director. His directing credits includeFull Battle Rattle(SXSW Special Jury Prize) with Jesse Moss,The Notorious Mr. Bout(BBC Storyville), CNN Films’We Will Rise: Michelle Obama’s Mission to Educate Girls Around the World(Television Academy Honors, CINÉ Golden Eagle), and the limited seriesKingdom of the White Wolffilmed on location in the High Arctic for National Geographic, streaming on Disney+. He is a producer on Brett Morgan’sJane (PGA Award and Primetime Emmy) and the Emmy-nominated, Oscar-shortlisted documentaryTakeover,currently being adapted into a feature film for the Independent Studio Sister. In 2005 he co-founded Market Road Films with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage.Brigadier General Peter B Zwack (Ret.)served as the United States Senior Defense Official and Attaché to the Russian Federation during the challenging years of 2012-2014. This period included Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine and its illegal annexation of Crimea. He also served in West Germany, Kosovo, South Korea and Afghanistan. Retired in 2015 after 34 years of military service, he served for four years as the Russia-Eurasia Fellow in the Institute for National Strategic Studies within the National Defense University teaching a Masters course in National Security Studies. BG Zwack is currently a Global Fellow at the Kennan Institute within the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. He also recently joined the UPenn’s Perry World House as a Visiting Fellow.A published author, since 1989, he has interacted with European, Russian and other international colleagues on multiple levels including defense, security, academia, policy, veterans, and private citizens. He regularly consults, writes and lectures within the interagency, defense department, think tanks, academic institutions, business community and select media outlets on contemporary Russian and Eurasian security issues, and leadership lessons learned.