Having tried and failed to make a true crime documentary, filmmaker Charlie Shackleton tells the story of what might have been. 

The winner of the Next Innovator Award, at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, (There is no film like it’ — Jury head Elijah Wood), this screening of ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT will be followed by a live in-person Q&A with its director producer, and editor, Charlie Shackleton.
 

In this wholly original, self-aware cinematic work, the true crime boom is put under the microscope as filmmaker Charlie Shackleton tells the story of his abandoned documentary about the infamous Zodiac Killer, describing beat-by-beat how he imagined it playing out. Over vacant Bay Area landscapes, stylised re-enactments and clips from recent true crime hits, his wry voiceover conjures the unrealised project in real time, offering an object lesson in creative frustration—and a hilarious critique of a genre at saturation point.