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Eugene Jarecki
Eugene Jarecki
	Eugene Jarecki in 2019
Born	October 5, 1969 (age 55); New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Alma mater	Princeton University
Occupation	Film director
Notable work	Why We Fight; Reagan; The House I Live In; The King
Parent	Henry Jarecki (father)
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 Quest of the Carib Canoe, which documents an effort by indigenous Carib Indians on the Island of Dominica to build an ancient ocean-going canoe and retrace their ancestors' path from South America's Orinoco Delta in what is now modern Guyana to the islands of the Caribbean.^[3] His second film that year was a dramatic feature called The Opponent released by Lionsgate.

In 2002, his first theatrical documentary feature The Trials of Henry Kissinger was released. Based on the book The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens, this film is the first of Jarecki's sweeping indictments of the perils of power. Trials was selected to launch both the Sundance Channel's DOCday venture as well as the BBC's digital channel, BBC Four. 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 Why We Fight about the role of America's military-industrial complex in leading the nation into the tragic quagmire of the Iraq War, won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and a Peabody Award. He also received a nomination for Best Documentary Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America for the film.^[4]

Alongside directors Alex Gibney, Morgan Spurlock, and Rachel Grady, Jarecki directed a segment of the 2010 feature Freakonomics based on the 2005 book Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival that year.^[5]

In 2011, Jarecki returned to the Sundance Film Festival with his Emmy Award-winning film Reagan, before its national television release on HBO on what would have been the 40th President's 100th birthday. The next year, The House I Live In, his film about America's War on Drugs, won Jarecki a second Grand Jury Prize at Sundance as well as a second Peabody Award. Achieving a level of mainstream recognition, the film's producers included Danny Glover, John Legend, Brad Pitt, and Russell Simmons. In order to create a genuine impact, the film was exhibited in over 130 U.S. prisons, churches, and statehouses, as well as on Capitol Hill. Along with the music video of the same name, featuring John Legend, and the viral short Just Say No...to the War on Drugs, (both directed by Jarecki), the film is credited with changing the national conversation on U.S. drug policy.^[6]

In 2014, Jarecki took part in the first Ted Talk in the history of Cuba at Havana's Teatro Nacional.^[7] Events that occurred in the days leading up to the talk became the subject of Jarecki's 2016 short film, The Cyclist (El Ciclista) which he directed for The New Yorker/Amazon.^[8]

In 2015, Jarecki served as executive producer on the documentary feature film (T)ERROR, directed by Lyric Cabral and David Felix Sutcliff, which won Jarecki a Sundance Special Jury Prize and his second Emmy Award.^[9]^[10] That same year, he also executive produced Laura Israel's feature documentary Don't Blink – Robert Frank about the late legendary photographer's work and career.

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 public intellectual on U.S. domestic and international policy, Jarecki has appeared on a variety of national television programs including The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, Fox & Friends, and Charlie Rose. In 2010, he created the short film Move Your Money, encouraging Americans to move their banking from "too big to fail" banks into smaller community banks and credit unions. It became a viral sensation leading to an estimated 4 million Americans moving their money out of major banks.^{[citation needed]}

Eugene Jarecki and Julian Assange as a hologram

Jarecki is also the Founder and Executive director of The Eisenhower Project, an academic public policy group, dedicated, in the spirit of Dwight D. Eisenhower, to studying the forces that shape American foreign policy. He has been a visiting fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies and is the author of The American Way of War (2008), published by Simon & Schuster/Free Press.

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 WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange as a hologram, beamed in to Nantucket from his place of asylum at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.^[13]^[14]^[15]

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 Chelsea Manning at the 2017 Nantucket Project, after her 35-year prison sentence was commuted by President Obama. In The Guardian, Jarecki wrote, "Manning sees connections in the duty of the soldier who uncovers high crimes, to the death of secrecy in the digital age, to the role of the individual in a society where privacy is as besieged as sexual orientation."^[17]

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
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	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			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
2002	Independent Spirit Award	Truer Than Fiction Award	The Trials of Henry Kissinger	Nominated
2002	Amnesty International	Amnesty International Award	The Trials of Henry Kissinger	Won
2005	Sundance Film Festival	Sundance Grand Jury Prize	Why We Fight	Won
	National Association of Broadcasters	Peabody Award		Won
	Writers Guild of America	Best Documentary Screenplay		Nominated
2011	Emmy Award	Outstanding Historical Programming – Long Form	Reagan	Won
2012	Sundance Film Festival	Sundance Grand Jury Prize	The House I Live In	Won
2012	National Association of Broadcasters	Peabody Award	The House I Live In	Won
2015	Emmy Award	Outstanding Investigative Documentary	(T)ERROR	Won
2020	Emmy Award	Best Documentary	The King	Nominated
	Emmy Award	Outstanding Historical Documentary		Nominated
	Grammy Award	Best Music Film		Nominated

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.
^ Jarecki, Eugene (May 20, 2017). The American Way of War. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781416544579. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
^ Sullivan, Lynne M. (2004). Adventure Guide to Dominica and St Lucia. Jefferson, NC: Hunter Publishing. p. 65. 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

[1] 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.

[2] Jarecki, Eugene (May 20, 2017). The American Way of War. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781416544579. Retrieved June 3, 2020.

[3] Sullivan, Lynne M. (2004). Adventure Guide to Dominica and St Lucia. Jefferson, NC: Hunter Publishing. p. 65. ISBN 1-58843-393-5.

[4] Kay, Jeremy (January 16, 2007). "WGA unveils nominees for documentary screenplay award". Screen Daily. Retrieved February 20, 2019.

[5] "World Premiere: Freakonomics".

[6] "John Legend – The House I Live In (Official Music Video)". YouTube. Retrieved May 20, 2020.

[7] "The last laugh | Eugene Jarecki | TEDxHabana". YouTube. January 27, 2015. Archived from the original on December 13, 2021. Retrieved May 20, 2020.

[8] "Eugene Jarecki's "The Cyclist (El Ciclista)": A Short Film About Cuba". The New Yorker. Retrieved May 20, 2020.

[Sundance-9] 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.

[10] ttp://cdn.emmyonline.org/news_38th_winners_v02.pdf Archived November 8, 2021, at the Wayback Machine ^{[bare URL PDF]}

[11] "Video Series Faena Festival". Faena Festival. Retrieved May 20, 2020.

[12] Dale, Martin (December 5, 2019). "Sundance Winner Eugene Jarecki Prepares 'Tuareg Project' in Morocco". Variety. Retrieved December 10, 2019.

[13] Locker, Melissa (September 28, 2014). "Julian Assange Beamed Into Nantucket as a Hologram". Vanity Fair. Retrieved December 15, 2014.

[14] "Julian Assange Speaks in Nantucket — as a Hologram". Time. Retrieved May 20, 2020.

[15] Locker, Melissa. "Julian Assange Beamed Into Nantucket as a Hologram". Vanity Fair. Retrieved May 20, 2020.

[16] Jarecki, Eugene (July 27, 2014). "Nantucket Project: why we're sleepwalking into a digital future". The Guardian. Retrieved December 15, 2014.

[17] 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.

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PROFILPELAJAR.COM

Eugene Jarecki

Early life and education

Career

Film and television

Public policy

Filmography

Awards and nominations

See also

Interviews

Full films

Bibliography

References

External links

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