Eugene Jarecki's THE KING

“Combining her raw-earth sensitivity with profound insight and delivery, Maggie Clifford brings together elements of the classic troubadour with something urgent and contemporary. Her artistry is an arresting mix in which the past haunts the present.

Director Eugene Jarecki first saw Maggie perform a decade ago with her childhood best friend, Kat Wright in the duet Loveful Heights.  In 2016, he asked them to play in THE KING.  Their scene in the film was shot on a hot summer night in the back of Elvis’ Rolls Royce.”

Synopsis: Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, two-time Sundance Grand Jury winner Eugene Jarecki’s new film takes the King’s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America. From Memphis to New York, Las Vegas, and beyond, the journey traces the rise and fall of Elvis as a metaphor for the country he left behind. In this groundbreaking film, Jarecki paints a visionary portrait of the state of the American Dream and a penetrating look at how the hell we got here. A diverse cast of Americans, both famous and non, join the journey, including Alec Baldwin, Rosanne Cash, Chuck D, Emmylou Harris, Ethan Hawke, Van Jones, Mike Myers, and Dan Rather, among many others.