Filmmaker Charlie Shackleton’s office is in London’s Whitechapel, the place where notorious serial murderer Jack the Ripper committed his heinous acts during the 19th century. But it is to the Bay ...

“Zodiac Killer Project,” the fascinating feature documentary from director Charlie Shackleton, is nothing like what it sounds. For one thing, it’s not really about the infamous Zodiac Killer — though ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. British filmmaker, artist, and critic Charlie Shackleton gets the chance to work out feelings about the Zodiac killer documentary ...

Director Charlie Shackleton thought he could have his cake and eat it too. For years Shackleton had been considering the idea of making a documentary centered on the Zodiac Killer. The mysterious and ...

The identity of the Zodiac Killer has been one of the biggest law enforcement mysteries of the past century. Who is the man who murdered at least 5 people in the ’60s and ’70s and was never caught?

"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 ...

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 ...

I’ve never been a huge fan of true crime. Before I understood what media literacy meant—before I understood that media broadly yields meaning, not all of it reasonable—my reluctance to dive into the ...

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 ...

Music Box Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to "Zodiac Killer Project," director Charlie Shackleton's true-crime documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film was ...

Exclusive: Shackleton recreates for audiences a documentary about the 1970s Bay Area serial killer he was ultimately not commissioned to make. British filmmaker, artist, and critic Charlie Shackleton ...