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Winter first met shawn fanning in 2001 and spent many years with him and the other major players in this story before being able to bring it to the screen. Were getting a look at alex winter s downloaded documentary deep web, set for premiere on epix in the spring. Winter is currently working on the first allaccess documentary about frank zappa. Alex winter is a director, writer and actor who has worked across film, television and theater. Alex winter s downloaded 2012 movie trailer about napster stars john fanning, shawn fanning, sean parker, lars ulrich, and henry. After completing nyu film school, he went on to have starring roles in several feature films, including. He came to sxsw to screen downloaded, which he produced and directed. The rise and fall of napster was a very dynamic story, highlighting the struggle of millions of people, both the napster team and its supporters vs. Winters multiple awardwinning 2015 documentary deep web, had its world premiere at sxsw and a broadcast premiere in the u. Making its world television premiere this spring, deep web an epix original documentary written, directed and produced by alex winter downloaded seeks to unravel this tangled web of secrecy.
Alex winter, an actor known for his films the lost boys and bill and teds excellent adventure, directs the new documentary downloaded, about napsters rise and fall. Downloaded watch online full movie documentary mania. Throughout the entirety of downloaded, i imagined alex winter interviewing the subjects of his documentary with a super long, well maintained mullet and the hideous jacket he wore in lost boys back when i was downloading shitty music from napster in the late 90searly 2000s my stepdad asked me if i wanted an mp3 player for christmas and i was like no way, scott, i have a discman, what the. The digital revolution ultimately created a technology paradigm shift and upended the music industry. In 1999, teenagers shawn fanning and sean parker launched the filesharing service napster. With mike d, henry rollins, noel gallagher, cindy margolis. Alex winter is an american actor and filmmaker who produced and directed the feature documentary downloaded, which charts the history of the digital revolution and the story of napster in particular alex presented the film at hot docs 20 and joined us at bar neon to discuss the film, the challenges faced in representing the subject matter, and his interest in the internet more broadly.
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Alex winter discusses sxsw napster doc downloaded posted on thursday, march 7th, 20 by germain lussier think about facebook, ipods, itunes all things you might use. Alex winter survived sexual assault and hollywood exploitation by becoming a documentary filmmaker with his latest movies, winter has found his groove as a nonfiction storyteller, and his current. There is so much to discuss from the downloaded, so most of our conversation went there, but dont worry, i asked him about the bill and ted sequel, too. Ostensibly its a crowdfunding campaign to finance the latest documentary from alex winter he of the napster documentary downloaded and the silk road doc deep web, but its really an ambitious. Downloaded is a documentary film directed by alex winter about the downloading generation and the impact of filesharing on the internet.
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