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Artist News
Orion documentary to premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 9 March 2015
‘Orion: The Man Who Would Be King’, a documentary about a singer who successfully convinced (some of) the world that he was (or might be) the late Elvis Presley, is to premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
As previously reported, the film is directed by Jeanie Finlay, who also made ‘Sound It Out’, about the last record shop in Teesside, and ‘The Great Hip Hop Hoax’, about hip hop act Silibil N Brains, who tricked the music industry into believing they were from LA, when in fact they were from Scotland.
‘Orion’, meanwhile, tells the story of Jimmy Ellis, who wasn’t Elvis, but managed to pass himself off as The King by wearing a mask and having a similar haircut. Sometimes that really is all it takes. He recorded a hefty number of albums under the guise too, many of them with Elvis’s original label, Sun.
More details about the screening here.
