"You don't do a raid like this and get away with it." Gravitas Ventures has debuted the first official trailer for a documentary titled Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web, telling the story of the controversial internet maven known as "Kim Dotcom". He is the founder of MegaUpload, and is being pursued for copyright infringement and money laundering in the United States. Born under the name Kim Schmitz in Germany, Dotcom now lives in New Zealand, hiding out there to prevent from being extradited. The documentary tells the story of the "Most Wanted Man Online", directed by New Zealand doc filmmaker Annie Goldson. As the quotes say, this does look fascinating and important and powerful. I'm always very curious about docs about the internet, because there's so much to explore and to examine. This is a short trailer, but I'm already sold. Here's the trailer for Annie Goldson's doc...
- 7/21/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The film directed by Annie Goldson premiered at SXSW and screened at Hot Docs.
Gravitas Ventures has acquired Us distribution and international sales rights to the documentary, which new senior vice president of global sales Scott Kaplan will be touting to buyers in Cannes.
Nolan Gallagher for Gravitas and Nate Bolotin of Xyz Films negotiated the acquisition on behalf of the producer Alexander Behse.
The company plans to release the film in the Us on August 22, with the aim of aligning international release dates to give global audiences simultaneous access to the documentary.
Kim Dotcom: Caught In The Web centres on the notorious Internet hacker, born Kim Schmitz, behind the file-sharing platform Megaupload. Dotcom moved to New Zealand with his family in early 2012 and was soon raided and arrested by the New Zealand police who were acting on behalf of the FBI - and has been fighting extradition to the Us ever since.
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Gravitas Ventures has acquired Us distribution and international sales rights to the documentary, which new senior vice president of global sales Scott Kaplan will be touting to buyers in Cannes.
Nolan Gallagher for Gravitas and Nate Bolotin of Xyz Films negotiated the acquisition on behalf of the producer Alexander Behse.
The company plans to release the film in the Us on August 22, with the aim of aligning international release dates to give global audiences simultaneous access to the documentary.
Kim Dotcom: Caught In The Web centres on the notorious Internet hacker, born Kim Schmitz, behind the file-sharing platform Megaupload. Dotcom moved to New Zealand with his family in early 2012 and was soon raided and arrested by the New Zealand police who were acting on behalf of the FBI - and has been fighting extradition to the Us ever since.
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- 5/16/2017
- ScreenDaily
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