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This Sundance documentary makes room for the amusing and poignant while its cast of seekers consult Tinder, Grindr and other dating apps.
The New Yorker names The American Sector one of "The Best Movies of 2020"
The New Yorker names The American Sector one of "The Best Movies of 2020." The filmmakers Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez engage in a fascinating range of happenstance conversations from which a grand vision of historical resonance and political consciousness emerges.
NYPD’s notorious ‘Mob Cops’ saga becoming a major, true-crime TV series
Four-time Emmy Award-winning Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter, a former executive producer of The Sopranos, has committed to write and develop the series.
Terence Winter Developing Mafia Cops True Crime Series With Asterlight
Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter has teamed with Asterlight, a San Francisco-based independent production company, to develop a true crime limited series based on the 2003 book Friends of the “Family: The Inside Story of the Mafia Cops Case,” by former NYPD Detective Tommy Dades, former Brooklyn prosecutor Mike Vecchione and David Fisher.
Grasshopper Film has taken North American distribution rights to The American Sector
Grasshopper Film has taken North American distribution rights to Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez's Berlinale 2020 documentary The American Sector, produced by Asterlight.
The American Sector: Film Review | Berlin 2020
In short, there's no predetermined narrative at play in this concise and elegantly crafted road trip. The terrain it travels is one of open-ended questions, and the spark it ignites has a contrapuntal power.
Berlin 2020: The 10 Best Movies of This Year’s Festival
Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez’s The American Sector may not have time to visit every section of the Berlin Wall that’s been imported to the country (the film runs a breezy 65 minutes without credits), but this light and thoughtful documentary road trip still manages to draw a comprehensive map of what the Cold War relic has come to represent — and what freedom means to the people of a nation that’s been defined by its pursuit.