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Filmmaker Kym Staton believed in Julian Assange’s story and what’s more, he believed it deserved to be told on the big screen. Few others did.
“Every distributor I spoke to said, ‘It’s not worth doing theatrical. It won’t work. Cinemas don’t want it – you’re not going to make anything. It’ll take three to six months even for them to book it in. None of this was the case at all.”