Charlie Kaufman is getting ready to take his new brief movie “ Shoot a Ghost” to the Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant subsequent month, however it received’t be lengthy earlier than cinephiles with public library playing cards get an opportunity to observe it. IndieWire can completely reveal that Kanopy — the ad-free streaming service free for a lot of library cardholders to make use of — has signed on as a producer and the unique library and academic distributor of the movie.
“ Shoot a Ghost” is directed by Kaufman and written by the poet Eva H.D., who beforehand wrote Kaufman’s 2023 brief “Jackals & Fireflies.” Per an official synopsis, the movie “follows two newly deceased younger individuals who meet within the streets of Athens, amid the pulsing cityscape and the ghosts of its historical past. One is a translator, the opposite a photographer; they had been outsiders in life, and in loss of life, they wrestle with the residue of their longings and errors. They wander town collectively, discovering comfort within the rugged fantastic thing about existence and its aftermath.” Josef Akiki and Jessie Buckley star.
The collaboration with Kaufman marks the newest bold growth for Kanopy. The service, which launched in 2008 and is now obtainable to over 50 % of library cardholders in america, launched its first authentic function movie, the book-banning documentary “Banned Collectively,” in April 2025.
“Given the disaster of training on this nation, it stays as necessary as ever for residents to proceed to have barrier-free entry to the wealth of free sources that libraries have all the time supplied,” Kaufman stated in an announcement. “Kanopy’s partnership with universities and public libraries ensures {that a} wealthy digital archive of cinematic work from everywhere in the world — from the most recent documentaries to the collected adventures of Buster Keaton — might be obtainable to a brand new technology of cinephiles.”
“Kanopy is proud to proceed our work of supporting impactful artists with ‘ Shoot a Ghost,’” Kanopy GM Jason Tyrell added. “We’re thrilled to hitch this unbelievable producing workforce and assist carry an thrilling new cinematic imaginative and prescient to Kanopy audiences by way of our intensive streaming platform. Charlie’s love of movie craft and singular storytelling sensibilities, coupled with Eva’s elegant poetry, weave collectively right into a richly historic and literary work that deserves to be platformed. We’re desperate to share this challenge with Kanopy’s patrons and educators.”
Kaufman’s final function directorial effort was the acclaimed 2020 Netflix movie “I’m Considering of Ending Issues,” starring Buckley. He’s at the moment hooked up to direct Eddie Redmayne and Tessa Thompson in a movie adaptation of Iddo Geffen’s brief story “Later the Warfare.”
