Premiering at Sundance, director Charlie Shackleton salvages an unproduced project with a humbled, humorous video essay that's only limited by the tropes it's lampooning. Though Shackleton’s feature ...

None of us talk about the inherent predatory nature of true crime documentaries. They pick over the bones of cold cases and unspeakable crimes, retraumatize survivors, dramatize crimes to the point of ...

Zodiac Killer Project director Charlie Shackleton loves films about the power and limitations of film. The critic-turned-filmmaker's 2014 debut, Beyond Clueless, studies the influence of teen movies.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. British director Charlie Shackleton was in Vallejo, California, where at least two of the murders committed by the Zodiac killer ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Charlie Shackleton, whose newest documentary, "Zodiac Killer Project," dissects the tropes of true-crime documentaries. "Zodiac Killer Project" is a documentary about a ...

In 2012, an autobiographical novel by Lyndon Lafferty titled “The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up: The Silenced Badge” was published. Lafferty was a regular highway patrol agent until one day, a strange ...

Film still from Zodiac Killer Project (2025), directed by Charlie Shackleton (courtesy Sundance Institute) In his new film, director Charlie Shackleton muses that it’s surprising that there hasn’t yet ...

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winners Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin and BAFTA-nominated director Natalie Hewit are boarding the National Geographic documentary Endurance (working title), the incredible story of ...

EXCLUSIVE: When Dr. John Shears led the 2022 expedition to find Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship the Endurance, a former boss gave him a 10% chance of success. “I said to him: ‘Well, Shackleton would have ...

"Zodiac Killer Project" is a documentary about a documentary that never got to be made. Charlie Shackleton tried to buy the rights to a memoir that explored a theory about who might have murdered five ...