The King

(Director, Writer, Producer) Eugene Jarecki is an award-winning documentary director and producer. After directing The Trials of Henry Kissinger in 2002, Jarecki won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and a Peabody Award for his 2005 film Why We Fight. In 2010, he created Move Your Money, a viral short encouraging Americans to shift their money from “too big to fail” banks to community banks and credit unions. His Emmy-award winning 2011 film, Reagan, premiered at Sundance before broadcasting on HBO. The House I Live In, his 2013 film about America’s War on Drugs, once again won him the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival as well as a second Peabody Award. He executive produced the Sundance award-winning documentary (T)ERROR, as well as Denial, which aired on PBS in 2017. In 2016, Jarecki directed The Cyclist as part of Amazon's “The New Yorker Presents” series.

Melinda Shopsin is an Emmy, Sundance, and Peabody award-winning producer with 15 years of experience in creating documentary, television, online, and digital content. Working with Laura Israel, Shopsin made the feature documentary Don’t Blink – Robert Frank, a galvanizing portrait of the iconic and elusive photographer. Shopsin produced Gimlet Media’s beloved podcast series Mystery Show which garnered one million listens in its first month of release and reached number one on the iTunes charts. As a longtime colleague of director Eugene Jarecki, Shopsin has played various key roles in the production of the feature films: The Trials of Henry, Why We Fight, Reagan, and The House I Live In.