Deep Web gives the inside story of one of the the most important and riveting digital crime sagas of the century — the arrest of Ross William Ulbricht, the convicted 30-year-old entrepreneur accused to be ‘Dread Pirate Roberts,’ creator and operator of online black market Silk Road. The film explores how the brightest minds and thought…
Doxa Film Festival Interview: Antti Haase (Monsterman)
Tomi Petteri Putaansuu, also known as Mr. Lordi, is the lead singer of Finland’s most celebrated, and decorated, metal band, Lordi. After being severely bullied in school, Tomi channeled his pain, and his love for KISS, into an elaborate monster fantasy world. From creepy figurines to horror movies, his artistic vision led him to form…
Doxa Film Festival Interview: Tonje Hessen Schei (Drone)
‘DRONE‘ takes you inside the secret CIA drone war with intimate stories from the war on terror. People living under drones in Pakistan and drone pilots struggling with killing through joysticks in the US. The film covers diverse and integral ground from the recruitment of young pilots at gaming conventions and the re-definition of “going…
Filmmaker Interview: Nick Broomfield (Tales Of The Grim Sleeper)
On July 7, 2010, Lonnie Franklin was arrested as a suspect in the “Grim Sleeper” murders, which took place in South Central Los Angeles from 1985 to 2007. His arrest was not the product of painstaking detective work, but the accidental result of a computer DNA match linking him to a possible 20 victims. TALES…
2015 Tribeca Film Festival Profile: Natalia Leite (Writer/Director – ‘BARE’)
After a lifetime of living in her sheltered and rural hometown, without any apparent means of changing a certain fate, Sarah (Dianna Agron) discovers a possible way out in Pepper (Paz de la Huerta), a mysterious female drifter. Through Pepper’s influence, Sarah is motivated to take a job at a highway strip club where Pepper…
10 Films To Watch At The 2015 Tribeca Film Festival
With the 2015 edition of New York City’s Tribeca Film Festival set to kick off on Wednesday, April 15, 2015, nearly 2 weeks of top flight filmmaking will be showcased, allowing the international film community and general public to experience the power of cinema, as well as promote New York City as the major filmmaking center it is.…