Happy September everyone! Just a quick note that Alex Winter's cyber crime documentary
Deep Web is available today on VOD. You can watch the latest trailer below.
Deep Web will give the inside story of one of the the most important and riveting digital crime sagas of the century -- the arrest of Ross William Ulbricht, the entrepreneur alleged to be "Dread Pirate Roberts," founder of online black market Silk Road. The film will explore how the brightest minds and thought leaders behind the Deep Web and Bitcoin are now caught in the crosshairs of the battle for control of a future inextricably linked to technology, with our digital rights hanging in the balance.
You can peruse the ScreenAnarchy archives for complete coverage of
Deep Web. Below is an excerpt from
Kurt's HotDocs review.
Deep Web tackles ethics, ethos, politics, The War on Drugs, miscarriages of justice, arrogance, agorism and naïveté (on all sides), online communities, government, technology, and while the film clearly has a position on many of these subjects, it makes the idea of condensing things into a narrative without sacrificing the nuance look far easier than it ought to be. That fact that this is possible, and seemingly in real-time, does indeed make the 21st century a strange new land.
You will also find a link to his
interview with director Alex Winter below as well.