indieWIRE filmmakers. biz. fans. I a SnagFilms company Meet the 2012 Sundance Filmmakers #9: Eugene Jarecki, 'The House I Live In' By: indieWire January 6, 2012 'The House I Live In" director Eugene Jarecki Documentary filmmaker and Sundance staple Eugene Jarecki (his last film "Reagan" premiered at the festival in 2011 and his 2005 film "Why We Fight" won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize) is back this year with "The House I Live In" (U.S. Documentary competition), a comprehensive work that delves into the war on drugs. What it's about: Filmed in more than 20 states, "The House I Live In" tells the stories of individuals at all levels of America's war on drugs. Says director Jarecki: "I've been preparing to make this film for over 20 years. But its seeds were planted in my childhood. I first met Nannie Jeter, one of the film's main characters, when I was just a few days old coming home from the hospital. From that day on, she became a second mother to me, and her children and grandchildren a second family. Growing up in the wake of the civil rights movement, I thought we were all living in a kind of post-racial America — a place of new equality and opportunity. But as we grew older, I saw our paths diverge — where I as a white American found opportunity and privilege, they as African- Americans met a new kind of struggle that reemerged for black people in the EFTA00591215