The documentary "Zodiac Killer Project" is a must-watch for true crime fans as it serves as a wake-up call for the entire genre.

Director Charlie Shackleton's meta project about the notorious serial killer challenges, with wry humor, our entire approach ...

Watch enough true-crime documentaries and patterns begin to emerge—a situation that speaks to the genre’s embrace of a cookie ...

The Zodiac Killer Project by Charlie Shackleton masterfully exposes the tricks and tropes of true crime. It just debuted at ...

All Charlie Shackleton had to do was give the Sundance Film Festival a 90-second video introducing himself and his ...

Charlie Shackleton's pseudo-documentary about not being able to make a film on the Zodiac Killer is true crime exploitation ...

Up’, a.k.a. ’The Silenced Badge’. Director Charlie Shackleton had been set to adapt the book into a true crime documentary, ...

It’s worth mourning the films we’ll never get to see: the unfunded epics, the unmarketable art films, perhaps even the unengaging streaming product. Filmmaker Charlie Shackleton faced that grief when ...

Sundance: Some artists are too interesting to sell out, as British filmmaker Charlie Shackleton discovered for himself when ...

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 ...

Charlie Shackleton's "Zodiac Killer Project," one of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival's Next selections, examines the true-crime genre from a filmmaker's perspective.