Starring David James and Laurie Pike.
Cast also includes Mark Daniel Cade, Keythe Farley, and Steve Wilcox. Featuring Steve Sires as Bill Gates.
Directed, Produced and Written by Brian Flemming.
When Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was shot dead on December 2, 1999, it was a tragedy that resonated throughout the world. But as time wears on, that tragedy has developed into a mystery for many observers, who see police misconduct and a cover-up where others see an open-and-shut case. NOTHING SO STRANGE follows the efforts of an organized group of these skeptics, who call themselves Citizens for Truth, as they launch an aggressive independent investigation of the Gates assassination and in the process confront the LAPD, a hostile mainstream press, and the group's own internal squabbles. With never-before-seen amateur footage of the Gates assassination, hypnotic 3D recreations of the various aspects of the crime, and almost unlimited access to the inner workings of Citizens for Truth, NOTHING SO STRANGE is ultimately both personal and political-an intimate portrait of average citizens on a search for the truth, as well as a revealing look at the last great crime of the 20th Century.
View the trailer and clips here.
VARIETY: "Brian Flemming's 'Nothing So Strange,' with its anti-capitalist fever-dream premise about the assassination of Bill Gates, created heavy buzz all up and down Park City's ski slopes before it even premiered. The film itself is more than just a novel premise, going off in myriad unexpected directions and setting something of a high bar for the mockumentary subgenre. The cast is superb, particularly James and Pike."
WIRED.COM: "As a pseudo documentary, 'Nothing So Strange' is pitch perfect, more closely resembling Errol Morris' crime film 'The Thin Blue Line' than 'This Is Spinal Tap'. And it comes with a brilliant and ingenious Internet component -- an entire Web universe of memorials to Bill Gates and conspiracy theorist sites."
SALON.COM: "The irony was that while the powerful studios and distributors were swarming over Sundance, many of the best discoveries were two miles up the mountainside in the relative obscurity of the alternative Slamdance festival, which has recaptured much of the youthful, scrappy spirit that Sundance had before it became so absurdly famous. Slamdance had this year's best hope for emulating the cultish following of 'The Blair Witch Project.' It was 'Nothing So Strange,' a fictional film about the internal politics in an activist group investigating the conspiratorial coverup of the assassination of Microsoft's Bill Gates. The film, which pretends to be a documentary, is an homage to classics of the documentary genre, such as Erroll Morris' legendary 'The Thin Blue Line.' It picks up brilliantly on the strange culture of conspiracy theorists, drawing inspiration from the JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King cases and from LAPD scandals such as Rampart."
BOSTON PHOENIX: "Nothing So Strange. Its the perfect title for Brian Flemmings brilliant, one-of-a-kind faux documentary."
indieWIRE: "It's a mock documentary of the first order, with a verisimilitude that rivals Christopher Guest's films. It's also a major investigation of group dynamics, a perfect subject for a culture where special interests rule the roost."
"Uncomfortably realistic." --New York Post
"Chilling." --Seattle Times
"Controversial and eerily realistic." --Drudge Report
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