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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 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.
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.
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 Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez's Berlinale 2020 documentary The American Sector, produced by Asterlight.
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.