**WINNER — 2025 Sundance Film Festival: NEXT Innovator Award**
“There is no film like it.” – Juror Elijah Wood
“Zodiac Killer Project brilliantly deconstructs our obsession with True Crime. A work of criticism as well as a work of art.”
– Bilge Ebiri, NEW YORK MAGAZINE”A brave, fascinating piece of filmmaking that asks viewers to question the mysteries of true crime storytelling and how they’re being told.”
– Brian Tallerico, ROGER EBERT. COM
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“A daring, shrewd, and altogether entertaining work of both celebration and critique. Zodiac Killer Project chronicles how a true-crime idea went wrong, in turn brilliantly dissecting and skewering the entire genre.”
– Nick Schager, THE DAILY BEAST
Synopsis
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Filmmaker Charlie Shackleton was hot on the trail of the next great American true crime documentary—a riveting account of a highway patrolman’s quixotic effort to identify and capture the infamous Zodiac Killer. Shackleton devised a plan, began collecting interviews, and shot “evocative B-roll” footage of ghostly California freeways and parking lots where the killer may have once lurked. And then the project fell apart, leaving Shackleton with fragments of the unfinished film and time to ruminate on shortcuts and signifiers of the ubiquitous genre.A witty and beautifully assembled deep dive into our obsession with serial killers and the stories we tell about them, Shackleton’s Zodiac Killer Project emerges from the ash heap to probe and deconstruct the form with the incisive eye of a true crime connoisseur.About the DirectorCharlie Shackleton is a nonfiction filmmaker working across film, television, radio, and immersive media. He is one third of the London-based production outfit Loop. His films have shown at Sundance, IDFA and SXSW, and won awards including a British Independent Film Award and a Grierson. His last project, the performance film As MineExactly, won the Immersive Art & XR Award at the 2022 BFI London Film Festival and went on to have extended runs at the Barbican Centre in London and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York.
Director: Charlie Shackleton Producers: Catherine Bray, Anthony Ing, Charlie Shackleton Cinematographer: Xenia Patricia Composer: Jeremy Warmsley Focus Puller: Alex Tan Country: United States / United Kingdom Run Time: 92 mins.
Distributor: Music Box Films
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