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It was a labor of love and the cumulation of nearly a decade of research, which was already creating a buzz. I wrapped my first feature-length documentary in late 2019. While this purge has apparently been happening for some time, Amazon announced in early February that they were “no longer accepting unsolicited licensing submissions via Prime Video Direct for nonfiction and short-form content.” As the independent film community assesses the impact of Amazon’s new stance toward independent film, I hope my story may help propel the conversation. 'If that was one individual message it would probably be a photograph or a WhatsApp message.Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story was unceremoniously removed from Amazon Prime two weeks ago, one of many independent films vanquished by The Prime Pandemic Purge. 'Now if we look at the data usage of his phone at that time, in the middle of all this there is a very suspicious amount of data and it is at 1.48am in the morning that the duration of the data connection is 309 seconds, which is 5minutes an 15 seconds and it amounts to 58kb. Journalist Toby Shapshak says in the documentary: 'When the phone comes back eventually and the information on the phone is accessed it shows that the phone has been plugged into a computer called 'titaniumhulk', which is the Twitter handle of his brother Carl. His phone was later sent off by police to be checked and it was discovered to have been connected to a computer owned by Pistorius' brother, Carl. This was ten minutes before neighbours said they heard loud voices from Pistorius' home.

The production crew obtained phone records that show that he received a message at 1.48am on the morning of February 14, 2013. While it was originally thought that Pistorius had reacted in a jealous rage to a message on Reeva's phone the documentary believes that it could have been the other way around.

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The series shows for the first time that a picture message was sent to the Paralympian's phone not long before the argument between him and Reeva. How Oscar Pistorius went from Olympic and Paralympic icon to world's most famous murderer In 2016 Pistorus was sentenced to six years in jail, which last December was increased to 13-years and four months.

However the Supreme Court of Appeal overturned the conviction and he was found guilty of murder. He was at first convicted of culpable homicide, which is the South African equivalent to manslaughter,and sentenced to five years.

Throughout his trial, the 31-year Paralympian claimed that he thought that Reeva was an intruder.īut the prosecution argued that he killed her during a heated argument. Included in the four-hour series is a plea from her dad, Barry Steenkamp, to make crime scene photos visible to the public so that the can see the pain that she went through.ĭirected by Vaughan Sivell, Pistorius looks at the rise and fall of the one-time track hero who shocked the world when he shot his girlfriend four times through a locked toilet door in the night. The documentary's writer and Producer Sean Richard however argues that the documentary's purpose was to tell the story as objectively as possible. Oscar Pistorius' brother 'shattered, heartbroken and gutted' after Paralympian has sentence for murdering model girlfriend increased to 13 years