Once Julian Assange is extradited to the US, the legal noose will tighten on his closest associates, including American Jacob Appelbaum, identified in indictments against Assange as “WLA3” (WikiLeaks Associate 3), currently living in exile in Germany. Nobody Wants To Talk About Jacob Appelbaum unveils this fascinating, troubled character, whose fate seems inextricably entwined with Assange’s, and the little-understood subculture from which they both sprang.
Filmmaker Jamie Kastner (The Skyjacker’s Tale, Secret Disco Revolution, There Are No Fakes) sets out to determine what happened and why Nobody Wants To Talk About Jacob Appelbaum. Interviews pried from secretive subjects’ blend with a trove of scarcely-seen footage and original investigation in this spy-story, a cautionary tale-of-our-times.
Nobody Wants to Talk About Jacob Appelbaum is a documentary Channel Original, and was produced in association with CBC documentary Channel, Canada Media Fund and the Rogers Cable Network Fund.
The film opens in Toronto and Vancouver June 2024
In Toronto on Thursday, June 13, 2024, 7:00 PM at the
Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema
Encore screening on Saturday, June 15, 2024, 12:30 PM
In Vancouver on June 14, 2024 (time TBD) at the VIFF Centre
Followed by a national streaming premiere on CBC Gem starting June 26, 2024
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