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This episode takes us behind the scenes of director Eugene Jurecki's new documentary, The King,

which explores the legacy of Elvis Presley 40 years after his death by taking viewers on a musical

road trip across America in his 1963 Rolls Royce during the 2016 presidential election.

Interviewing a diverse cast of citizens, both famous and not, along the way, Mr. Jurecki uses

Elvis's rise and fall as a metaphor and takes a penetrating

luck at the status of America. The King was screened as part of the DGA's documentary series,

which aims to spotlight groundbreaking nonfiction films for DGA members and guests

by presenting screenings of documentaries, as well as conversations with their directors.

In addition to the King, which earned

a Golden Eye nomination at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, Mr. Jurecki's filmography includes the feature

the opponent, the documentary feature The Trials of Henry Kissinger, and the television documentary,

Quest of the Carib Canoe.

He is a two-time winner of the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for documentary for his 2005 film, Why We Fight, and his 2012 film, The House I Live in.

Following the documentary series screening of the film at the DGA Theatre in New York,

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