Join Sundance Collab and filmmaker Charlie Shackleton for a conversation about storytelling outside of the box, the art and craft of documentary filmmaking, and tackling the true crime genre. His film Zodiac Killer Project premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and won the NEXT Innovator Award.


About Zodiac Killer Project: Against the backdrop of sunbaked parking lots, deserted courthouses, and empty suburban homes — the familiar spaces of true crime, stripped of all action and spectacle — a filmmaker describes his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary and probes the inner workings of a genre at saturation point.


The Festival’s NEXT program showcases “pure, bold works distinguished by an innovative, forward-thinking approach to storytelling…Unfettered creativity promises that the films in this section will shape the greater next wave in global cinema.”

Charlie Shackleton (A Machine for Viewing, 2020 Sundance Film Festival) is a nonfiction filmmaker working across film, television, radio, and immersive media. He is one third of the London-based production outfit Loop. more...
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Katherine "Kat" Street is an LA-based award-winning filmmaker and Philadelphia native. A cinephile at heart, she writes female-driven stories with complex (oftentimes damaged) main characters, centered around self-discovery, self-love, and belonging. She has written numerous short-form projects, including original shorts, pilots, and features. She wrote and directed the dramatic short film “Cycles,” which received festival recognition in both acting and best romantic short. She also created her award-winning flagship web series "The New Adult,” which is currently streaming on Kweli TV. Kat is a Stowe Story Lab SAGIndie Fellow and a participant in the BlackMagic Collective Emerging Filmmakers Initiative. In 2021, she founded the Black Film Challenge, a project that showcases filmmakers of African descent and the movies they create. She earned her BFA from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts with a concentration in Cinematography and has literary representation with Culture Creative Entertainment. more...

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