Phantom Parrot

Status

In release

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Director

Kate Stonehill

Kate Stonehill is a multi award-winning filmmaker raised in London and New York whose work explores power, identity and citizenship in the digital age. Her films embrace the nexus between visual art and journalism, playing with genre conventions to investigate truth. She has exhibited work internationally at film festivals and galleries including the BFI London Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, and DOC NYC. Her film FAKE NEWS FAIRYTALE, won a Grierson award and a Royal Television Society award, and is part of the curated series The Atlantic Selects. Kate has worked as a cinematographer across Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and North Africa and been nominated for an RTS Craft Award for Cinematography. She is a visiting tutor at the National Film & Television School, where she teaches on the M.A. in Directing Documentary and co-leads a short camera course for women documentary filmmakers.

Producer

Steven Lake

Steven Lake is a documentary producer based out of Bristol, UK. His work includes Cinema Eye-nominated ROLL RED ROLL. The film was the season opener for POV - PBS, was broadcast by BBC Storyville and is now available worldwide on Netflix. Roll Red Roll premiered at Tribeca 2018, screened at over 40 international festivals and went on to have a theatrical run in the US with an opening weekend at Film Forum, New York City. The film was called ‘essential viewing’ – Hollywood Reporter, ‘Raw and pressing’ – Anthony Lane, The New Yorker and was a Critic’s Pick for The New York Times and has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. His feature debut documentary, DRYING FOR FREEDOM (Amazon Prime) was the winner of Climate Week’s Best Artistic Response Award. Steven specializes in security-conscious filmmaking, using new technologies to create safe and secure workflows to protect films, filmmakers and contributors. He is the producer of the BFI-funded documentary short ANOTHER PARADISE as well as ANONYMOUS COMES TO TOWN, made in collaboration with The Guardian and Gucci Foundation.

PHANTOM PARROT unravels a secret British government surveillance program, and follows human rights activist Muhammad Rabbani as he is prosecuted under terror laws for refusing to hand over the passwords to his electronic devices, unveiling unsettling questions about the rule of law, modern espionage and digital privacy.

Trailer

Premieres & Awards

Official Selection

CPH:DOX 2023

Official Selection

Sheffield DocFest 2023