Jamie Kastner is a Toronto-based filmmaker and writer whose work has received international acclaim. His recently completed The Secret Disco Revolution a feature doc presold to Bravo!, ZDF/Arte, Canal D and Knowledge is distributed by Entertainment One. Recessionize! For Fun And Profit! a sell out hit at Hot Docs 2011 was made for TVO and has sold internationally to several countries including Holland, Belgium and Israel. Kike Like Me, Kastner's first feature-length documentary premiered as a Special Presentation at Hot Docs where it became the top-selling and most talked-about film of the festival. It screened and won award s at various international festivals including Audience Award at the Munich Dokfest. Pitched at Hot Docs' Toronto Documentary Forum, Kike Like Me pre-sold to 10 top international broadcasters including BBC's Oscar-winning strand Storyville and the Sundance Channel, and is represented by EOne International. In addition to work through his company Cave 7 Productions, for Discovery he wrote and directed Strange Tales of the Flesh (Barna Alper) for which he also composed and performed satirical songs. He directed on the top-rated History TV/Global series Ancestors in the Attic (Primitive Entertainment), and co-wrote Comedy Gold (Insight Productions) a three-hour doc on the history of comedy for CBC. Before making full-length documentaries, Kastner hosted and produced kastnerkulture for three seasons on CBC-Newsworld's play, he also produced/directed on current affairs and cultural programs at CBC, TVO and MuchMusic including Undercurrents, Studio 2, Big Life with Daniel Richler and On The Arts with Laurie Brown. He was co-host/producer of Mr. Jones a live pop culture program on TVO and following family tradition, was associate producer on two black-comic CBC documentaries directed by his uncle John Kastner: Chickens are People Too and Somebody's Gotta Do It. Kastner's writing has appeared in The Guardian, Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, NOW, eye and Saturday Night magazines. He has also written and directed theatre.
After five citizens of the Virgin Islands are convicted in the 1970s of a massacre at one of the island's fancy country clubs, their ostensible leader stages a skyjacking and escapes to Cuba.
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A cheeky, sexy documentary hybrid, THE SECRET DISCO REVOLUTION wraps revealing celebrity interviews, classic kitsch footage and music, in a hilarious new package that never lets you stop dancing long enough to decide what's real and what's satire.