Eugene Jarecki
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Eugene Jarecki | |
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Born | New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. | October 5, 1969
Alma mater | Princeton University |
Occupation | Film director |
Notable work | Why We Fight Reagan The House I Live In The King |
Parent(s) | Henry Jarecki Gloria Jarecki |
Family | Andrew Jarecki (brother) Nicholas Jarecki (half-brother) |
Eugene Jarecki (born October 5, 1969) is an American documentary filmmaker. He is best known as a two-time winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, as well as multiple Emmy and Peabody Awards, for his films Why We Fight, Reagan, and The House I Live In.
His other films include The Trials of Henry Kissinger, Freakonomics, The Opponent, and Quest of the Carib Canoe. His most recent feature, The King,[1] was nominated for two Emmys in 2020, including Best Documentary Feature, and a 2019 Grammy Award for Best Music Film of the Year.
Jarecki is also the author of The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril (Simon & Schuster).[2]
Early life and education
Jarecki was born in New Haven, Connecticut to Henry Jarecki and Gloria Jarecki, a former film critic at Time magazine. Jarecki grew up in New York with his brothers Andrew Jarecki (The Jinx, Capturing the Friedmans) and Thomas A. Jarecki. They also have a half-brother Nicholas Jarecki (Arbitrage). All four brothers are in the film industry, most notably Andrew who has also won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Emmy award for his own films and series.
After graduating from the Hackley School in 1987, Eugene attended Princeton University. There he trained as a stage director, but pivoted into film, where he experienced early success. His first short film, Season of the Lifterbees, premiered at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival and won the Time Warner Grand Prize at the Aspen Film Festival.
Career
Film and television
In 2000, Jarecki directed two feature films. One was the documentary
In 2002, his first theatrical documentary feature . Ultimately, the film has been broadcast in over thirty countries.
Winner of the 2002 Amnesty International Award, the film was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and In 2002,
In 2005, Jarecki distinguished himself as a filmmaker unafraid of serious, penetrating investigations. His film
Alongside directors
In 2011, Jarecki returned to the
In 2014, Jarecki took part in the first
In 2015, Jarecki served as executive producer on the documentary feature film
His most recent film, The King, produced by Steven Soderbergh, Errol Morris, and Rosanne Cash, premiered at Cannes and Sundance. Nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Music Film, The King is a musical road trip in Elvis Presley's 1963 Rolls-Royce that features Alec Baldwin, Chuck D, Emmylou Harris, Mike Myers, Rosanne Cash, Van Jones, and Ethan Hawke, among others, tracing the rise and fall of Elvis as a metaphor for the country he left behind. Alongside the film, Jarecki created a series of music videos for artists such as Lana Del Rey, M. Ward, The Handsome Family, Immortal Technique, and the Stax Music Academy All-Stars.
In 2018, Jarecki's first public contemporary art exhibit, entitled Promised Land, was featured at Miami Art Basel as part of "This is Not America" at the Faena Hotel, Miami Beach. A multiscreen video presentation, Promised Land was inspired by Jarecki's 2018 film, The King.[11]
In 2019, it was announced that Jarecki is returning to dramatic filmmaking with a yet-untitled action film about a Saharan, Tuareg nomad, who seeks revenge for a crime committed against his tribal customs. Jarecki wrote the screenplay with his son Jonas Jarecki, based on a best-selling novel. Addison O'Dea is producing.[12]
Public policy
As a
Jarecki is also the Founder and Executive director of
Jarecki has also participated as a speaker at several international conferences including Ted, Nantucket Project, and will.i.am's "TRANS4M" gathering for the i.am.angel Foundation.
At the 2014 Nantucket Project, Jarecki conducted a public interview with
Jarecki wrote in The Guardian before the event, "it crosses my mind I may be abetting a crime or violating international extradition laws. But I reassure myself that, in this regard, the worldwide web remains a kind of wild wild west, and the virtual escape of a person is not (yet?) a crime."[16]
As a sequel to this interview, Jarecki publicly interviewed former U.S. Army soldier
In April 2020, Jarecki created the Trump Death Clock, a 56-foot billboard in Times Square, New York City, that attributed U.S. COVID-19 deaths to Donald Trump and his administration's alleged delayed response to the pandemic.
Filmography
Year | Film | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes | Ref. |
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1993 | Season of the Lifterbees | Yes | Yes | Yes | Documentary short | |
2000 | Quest of the Carib Canoe | Yes | Documentary feature | |||
2000 | The Opponent | Yes | Yes | Yes | Dramatic feature | |
2002 | The Trials of Henry Kissinger | Yes | Yes | Documentary feature | ||
2005 | Why We Fight | Yes | Yes | Yes | Documentary feature | |
2007 | Addiction | Yes | Segment of documentary feature | |||
2010 | Freakonomics | Yes | Yes | Segment of documentary feature | ||
2010 | Move Your Money
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Yes | Yes | Documentary short | ||
2011 | Reagan | Yes | Yes | Yes | Documentary feature | |
2012 | The House I Live In | Yes | Yes | Yes | Documentary feature | |
2015 | Reclaim Democracy | Yes | Yes | Yes | Documentary short | |
2015 | (T)ERROR
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Yes | Documentary feature | |||
2015 | Don't Blink | Yes | Documentary feature | |||
2016 | The Cyclist (El Ciclista) | Yes | Yes | Documentary short | ||
2017 | The King | Yes | Yes | Yes | Documentary feature |
Awards and nominations
Year | Organization | Award | Nominated work | Result |
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2002 | Independent Spirit Award | Truer Than Fiction Award | The Trials of Henry Kissinger | Nominated |
Amnesty International | Amnesty International Award | Won | ||
2005 | Sundance Film Festival | Sundance Grand Jury Prize
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Won | |
National Association of Broadcasters | Peabody Award
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Won | ||
Writers Guild of America | Best Documentary Screenplay | Nominated | ||
2011 | Emmy Award
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Outstanding Historical Programming – Long Form | Won | |
2012 | Sundance Film Festival | Sundance Grand Jury Prize
|
Won | |
National Association of Broadcasters | Peabody Award
|
Won | ||
2015 | Emmy Award
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Outstanding Investigative Documentary | (T)ERROR |
Won |
2020 | Emmy Award
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Best Documentary | Nominated | |
Emmy Award
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Outstanding Historical Documentary | Nominated | ||
Grammy Award
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Best Music Film | Nominated |
See also
Interviews
- The Brooklyn Rail: "The Nature of the System/It's the System Not the Man: Eugene Jarecki in conversation with Williams Cole"
- New York Magazine: "Childhood in New York", featuring Jarecki
- a BBC Storyville interview
- a BBC World interview
- on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
- on The Charlie Rose Show
- on The Colbert Report
Full films
- Why We Fight – Google Video, 1 hr 39 min 1 sec
- The Trials of Henry Kissinger Archived October 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine – Google Video, 1 hr 19 min 41 sec
- Move Your Money short film on YouTube
Bibliography
- The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril (Simon & Schuster, 2008)
References
- ^ Hoffman, Jordan (January 12, 2010). "The King review – a wild ride through doomed America in Elvis Presley's car". The Guardian. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
- ISBN 9781416544579. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
- ISBN 1-58843-393-5.
- ^ Kay, Jeremy (January 16, 2007). "WGA unveils nominees for documentary screenplay award". Screen Daily. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
- ^ "World Premiere: Freakonomics".
- ^ "John Legend – The House I Live In (Official Music Video)". YouTube. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- ^ "The last laugh | Eugene Jarecki | TEDxHabana". YouTube. January 27, 2015. Archived from the original on December 13, 2021. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- ^ "Eugene Jarecki's "The Cyclist (El Ciclista)": A Short Film About Cuba". The New Yorker. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- ^ Chang, Justin (January 31, 2015). "Here are the 2015 Sundance Film Fest winners". Archived from the original on February 5, 2015. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
- ^ http://cdn.emmyonline.org/news_38th_winners_v02.pdf Archived November 8, 2021, at the Wayback Machine [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Video Series Faena Festival". Faena Festival. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- ^ Dale, Martin (December 5, 2019). "Sundance Winner Eugene Jarecki Prepares 'Tuareg Project' in Morocco". Variety. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
- ^ Locker, Melissa (September 28, 2014). "Julian Assange Beamed Into Nantucket as a Hologram". Vanity Fair. Retrieved December 15, 2014.
- ^ "Julian Assange Speaks in Nantucket — as a Hologram". Time. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- ^ Locker, Melissa. "Julian Assange Beamed Into Nantucket as a Hologram". Vanity Fair. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- ^ Jarecki, Eugene (July 27, 2014). "Nantucket Project: why we're sleepwalking into a digital future". The Guardian. Retrieved December 15, 2014.
- ^ Jarecki, Eugene (September 16, 2017). "Chelsea Manning's story highlights the key issues of our time | Eugene Jarecki". The Observer. Retrieved May 20, 2020 – via www.theguardian.com.
External links
- Eugene Jarecki at IMDb