Dead Man s Switch: a crypto mystery
Gerald Cotten was the CEO of Canada s cryptocurrency exchange, QuadrigaCX, responsible for over $200 million in assets. While on his honeymoon in India, he died suddenly under mysterious circumstances, leaving investors empty-handed and with a lot of questions. This riveting 21st century crime caper explores human nature, greed and the pitfalls of navigating the Wild West of the unregulated cryptocurrency world.
Was Gerald Cotten s death the last of his many scams? - Dead Man s Switch: A Crypto Mystery
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A thirty-year-old CEO, responsible for hundreds of millions worth of cryptocurrency, dies unexpectedly, unleashing speculation that his exit was only one of many scams.2:11
Daniel Berish was going through old photographs with his grandmother one day when they came across one of her as a young woman in the forest, wrapped in a towel and beaming at the camera.
Hot Docs 2021: Dressing down to chronicle Canada’s oldest nudist camp
Filmmakers Danny Berish and Ryan Mah got naked to make the short documentary Nude To Me By Charlie Smith
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Director Danny Berish and cinematographer and producer Ryan Mah (left) stripped off all their clothes while filming Nude To Me at the Van Tan Club.
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Filmmaker Danny Berish compares Canada’s oldest nudist club to a rustic Scandinavian spa.
Situated at the base of Mount Fromme in North Vancouver, the Van Tan Club was created by free thinkers in the midst of an idyllic forest way back in 1939.
Josiah Wilson(Laura Perlmutter)
Josiah Wilson was adopted as a baby in Haiti and raised by an Indigenous family in Calgary. His personal journey becomes news when he is refused the right to play basketball a sport he loves deeply at an Indigenous tournament. With the support of loved ones, Wilson deals with this hurtful rejection while examining his own identity, and the complex web of relationships within his family and community.
Portrayal
For years, filmmaker Roman Lapshin has been captivated by the mystery surrounding the thousands of paintings created by his grandfather, Vladimir Dvorkin. Going against the wishes of his family, and obsessed with redeeming Dvorkin s name and artistic legacy, Lapshin travels across three continents to confront a powerful man at the centre of this secret.