documentaries by Eugene Jarecki

Southern erspectives is this year's selection of films from or focusing on the southern United States and the 10 films include narratives and documentaries and three world premieres, including Lauren Durr's documentary 1000 Year Flood, chronicling the aftermath of the 2016 flood that inundated huge ...

Minnesota native Lois Vossen has made PBS' "Independent Lens" a showcase for the best in documentary film. ... as a filmmaker, and Lois is one of them,” said Eugene Jarecki, whose film for “Lens” about the war on drugs, “The House I Live In,” won Sundance's Grand Jury Prize for documentaries in 2012.

In the film, which opens this summer (18), Jarecki tours across America chatting to backseat guests like Alec Baldwin and Ethan Hawke about Elvis' impact on culture, and he had such a good time, he's now considering an offer to take the car to the Far East and make a similar movie with local celebrities and fans.

Folk Alley presents two screenings of the documentary THE KING at the 42nd Cleveland International Film Festival. Director Eugene Jarecki travels America in Elvis' 1963 Rolls Royce talking to people along the way about the parallels between Elvis' rise and fall and the post-war American experience.

Two of Tampa Bay's longest running cinema showcases are teaming up, celebrities are showing up and the movie slate is looking up. Those are takeaways from Thursday's lineup release by the 12th annual Suncoast Credit Union Gasparilla International Film Festival, running Mar. 20-25 at more locations ...

This nominee for the 1999 Best Documentary Feature Oscar takes viewers into one of the nation's most infamous correctional facilities: the Louisiana State ... The war on drugs is picked apart and examined closely at every level in the acclaimed "The House I Live In." Director Eugene Jarecki turns the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Eugene Jarecki, who debuted his new film The King at the Sundance Film Festival, has signed with Anonymous Content and Sterling Lord Literistic, the latter of whom will team with the filmmaker on a book based on his Elvis Presley road-trip documentary. David Kanter and Howie Sanders of ...

'The King' Helmer Eugene Jarecki On How The Story Of Elvis Is The Story Of America – Sundance Studio ... as America had her majesty,” said director Eugene Jarecki during his turn at Deadline's Sundance Studio to speak on his documentary film, The King. ... “This is a movie very much about America.

EXCLUSIVE: On the eve of Sundance, Oscilloscope has acquired North American rights to The King, the Eugene Jarecki-directed documentary in which the filmmaker takes Presley's 1963 Rolls Royce on a musical road trip along the singer's geographical touchstones. The film traces where Presley lost ...

That's what happened to Sundance Film Festival award-winning filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, who while touring America with his criminal justice doc, ... Promised Land played in the Special Screenings section of the Cannes Film Festival and is up for the Golden Eye, an award bestowed to documentaries.

Credit where it is due. Eugene Jarecki wanted to make a movie about absolutely everything, and what sounded goofy in the Cannes marketing material turned out to be a worthy on-ramp. Promised Land threatens at first to be a two-hour documentary about Elvis Presley's car, but Jarecki shrugs that notion ...

EXCLUSIVE: Eugene Jarecki, helmer of the 2005 Peabody- and Sundance-winning documentary Why We Fight, hits the road all the way to the Cannes Film Festival for his next film. In Promised Land, which will have its world premiere in Cannes' Special Screening section May 20, Jarecki takes Elvis ...

Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki has signed with UTA, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. He previously was with CAA. Both of his documentaries — Why We Fight, about the rise of the military-industrial complex, and The House I Live In, about the war on drugs — won Sundance Grand Jury Prizes ...

The festival's selections include more than 100 films that were chosen from more than 900 documentary, feature and short films submitted to the festival, or specially selected by Herskowitz. The entire program, including information about show times, live performances, filmmaker discussion panels, and ...

The Sarasota Film Festival (SFF) today announced its full line-up, including its Centerpiece, Spotlight, Narrative Feature Competition, Independent ... and Madeline Olnek's WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY, and documentary films Eugene Jarecki's THE KING, Ali Weinstein's MERMAIDS, Barbara Kopple's A ...