Eugene Jarecki 

Eugene Jarecki is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning director of dramatic and documentary subjects who has twice won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, first in 2005 for Why We Fight (Sony Pictures Classics, 2005) and again in 2012 for The House I Live In (BBC/PBS,2012). His other films include the Emmy-Award Winning Reagan (HBO, 2011), The Trials of Henry Kissinger (Sundance/BBC, 2002), Freakonomics (Magnolia, 2010), and The Cyclist (Amazon/New Yorker, 2015). He is also the creator of Move Your Money, an online video that sparked a national movement in 2010 to shift personal banking away from "too big to fail" banks into community banks and credit unions. 

A public intellectual on domestic and international affairs, Jarecki has been named a Soros Justice Fellow at the Open Society Institute and a Senior Fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. He has appeared on 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart', 'Charlie Rose', 'The Colbert Report', 'FOX News', CNN, and many other outlets, while also featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and GQ, among others. As founder and executive director of The Eisenhower Project, a public policy group dedicated to promoting greater public understanding of the forces that shape U.S. foreign and defense policy, he published the 2008 book 'The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril' (Simon & Schuster). His forthcoming book is Promised Land: A Search for the Soul of America (2018). 

Jarecki's most recent film, THE KING (Oscilloscope/Universal, 2018) was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Music film of the year and 2 News and Documentary Emmys including Best Documentary. The New York Times says: "wildly ambitious, thoroughly entertaining and embellished with some snaky moves, Eugene Jarecki’s documentary “The King” is a lot like its nominal subject, Elvis Presley. In part, it tells the familiar story of the poor little boy who became a king. But Mr. Jarecki has a second, larger and more complicated story he wants to address, too: that of the United States. Tying one man’s body to the body politic, he seeks to turn Presley’s life — from ravishing, thrilling youth to ravaging, putrefying fame — into the story of the country, an arc that takes the documentary from Graceland to Trumpland."