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| Directed by | Charlie Shackleton |
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| Cinematography | Xenia Patricia |
| Edited by | Charlie Shackleton |
| Music by | Jeremy Warmsley |
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Running time | 92 minutes [1] |
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| Language | English |
Zodiac Killer Project is a 2025 British-American documentary film, directed, produced, and edited by Charlie Shackleton. [2]
It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2025, where it won the NEXT Innovator Award.
It follows Shackleton's failed attempt to make a documentary revolving around the Zodiac Killer. [3]
It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2025, where it won the NEXT Innovator Award. [4] [5] It also screened at True/False Film Festival on February 28, 2025, [6] South by Southwest on March 8, 2025, [7] [8] and CPH:DOX on March 24, 2025, [9] [10] In April 2025, Music Box Films acquired the US distribution rights to the film. [11]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 86% of 36 critics' reviews are positive.The website's consensus reads: "Director Charlie Shackleton rescues victory from the jaws of defeat in Zodiac Killer Project, a revelatory rumination on filmmaking and the overindulgences of the true crime genre." [12] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 71 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. [13]