An abandoned movie on hunting the Zodiac Killer turns into a side-eye look at something even more rampant than mass murder: true-crime documentaries.

British director Charlie Shackleton was in Vallejo, California, where at least two of the murders committed by the Zodiac ...

Charlie Shackleton is no stranger to exploring the internal workings and boundaries of film form. The British director, ...

The British filmmaker rescues his own film from the cutitng room floor by interrogating what it is about the genre we are ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Charlie Shackleton, whose newest documentary, "Zodiac Killer Project," dissects the tropes of true-crime documentaries.

Premiering at Sundance, director Charlie Shackleton salvages an unproduced project with a humbled, humorous video essay that's only limited by the tropes it's lampooning. Though Shackleton’s feature ...

Charlie Shackleton’s Zodiac Killer Project offers a reflective, meta look at the Zodiac case, focusing on genre pitfalls rather than retelling the murders.