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6 4 I D G A M O N T H L Y DGA Screening Q&As Additional photos and podcasts are posted online at www.dga.org. photo by Shane Karns photo by Marcie Revens 1 2 Taika Waititi discusses Jojo Rabbit A lonely German boy is forced to confront his blind devotion to the Nazi regime in Director Taika Waititi's satirical comedy-drama, Jojo Rabbit. Set during the waning days of World War II, Waititi's fi lm tells the story of Jojo, a young boy whose only friend is an imaginary and idiotic projection of Adolf Hitler. Eager to join the Nazi party, Jojo's world view is turned upside down when he discovers his own mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Following the DGA membership screening in Los Angeles on October 13, Waititi sat down with Director Seth Rogen to discuss the making of Jojo Rabbit. Waititi also discussed the fi lm in a conversation with Director Paul Downs Colaizzo following the DGA membership screening in New York on October 19. In addition to Jojo Rabbit, Waititi's credits include the feature fi lms Thor: Ragnarok, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, What We Do in the Shadows and Eagle vs Shark; the pilot for the series What We Do in the Shadows; and episodes of the series The Mandalorian, The Inbetweeners and Flight of the Conchords. Waititi has been a DGA member since 2007. Photos: 1. Seth Rogen (moderator) and Taika Waititi in LA. 2. Taika Waititi and Paul Downs Colaizzo (moderator) in NY. Eastern Region Special Projects Documentary Series Screens Alex Gibney's Citizen K In 2003 Mikhail Khodorkovsky — one of the richest men in Russia — began a ten-year sentence in a Siberian prison for fraud and tax evasion. Many believed his sin was challenging Vladimir Putin, the newly-elected president who began a crusade against anyone with power who challenged him. Imprisoned after a series of theatrical trials orchestrated by Putin, "Citizen K" became a world-famous dissident. Currently exiled in London with trumped up Russian murder charges hanging over his head, Khodorkovsky continues to battle Putin and his decades-long hold on power. Photographed on location in the UK, Russia and Germany, Director Alex Gibney's new documentary, Citizen K, tracks Khodorkovsky's path from communist to oligarch to political prisoner to exiled dissident and examines the price of power in Russia. Following the DGA Eastern Region Special Projects Committee's Documentary Series screening in New York on November 1, Gibney discussed the making of the fi lm in a conversation moderated by Director Matthew Heineman. In addition to Citizen K, Gibney's fi lmography includes the documentary features No Stone Unturned, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, Freakonomics, My Trip to Al-Qaeda, the DGA Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, and the DGA Award-nominated fi lms Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer and Taxi to the Dark Side. Gibney has been a DGA member since 1998. Photo: Directors Alex Gibney and Matthew Heineman (moderator) photo by Marcie Revens