The Elvis Project – a Yukon road documentary, is a 45-min Yukon made documentary about one man’s journey to become accepted as the man he has become – Elvis A. Presley. The movie features Yukon’s own Elvis Presley from Tagish, and exposes some of the trials and tribulations of his life in a refreshing, non-linear, multimedia storytelling style. The film takes the viewer on a tour with Elvis and seventeen others to the Yukon communities of Ross River, Mayo, Dawson City, Carmacks, and Whitehorse. In each place, Elvis and his band “the Armageddon Angels” play to a packed house. Elvis also greets visiting tourists and tells us more about himself, including his legal battles with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Hustler Magazine, and his values and belief in Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and aliens.

The movie is available in the following formats:

• original MiniDV format
• VHS
• DVD
• Betacam SP

It is in colour except for approximately two minutes, during the movie’s opening black and white scenes, when Elvis is describing his U.F.O. and alien experiences outside Carcross at minus-thirty degrees celsius.

The Elvis Project was made over a period of a couple of years and involved the combined effort of many Yukoners. Whether it be the folks that either organized or attended the performances, the seventeen dedicated people who took time off work to travel with the production, or the directors of the film that sorted through more than fifty hours of raw footage to come up with the finished product, it was truly a “Yukon” effort. The result is all about Yukon art, music, people, places, and spirit.