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Eddy Moretti

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Biography

Writer, director and award-winning producer and director Eddy Moretti is the co-founder of Unbranded Pictures. Prior to launching Unbranded, Moretti served as Chief Creative Officer at VICE Media for two decades where he was responsible for the content across all of the company's flagship properties and divisions, including VICE's 13 digital channels. A prolific producer of film and television, Moretti recently ensured that Scott Z. Burns' festival darling "The Report" (Adam Driver, Annette Bening & Jon Hamm) would be seen by audiences worldwide by securing financing through both VICE Studios and Unbranded Pictures. Other notable producing credits include "Fishing Without Nets", nominated for the Jury Prize and winner of the Directing Award at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival; "The Bad Batch", by visionary writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour, and winner at the 2017 Venice Film Festival; and Harmony Korine's "The Beach Bum", starring Matthew McConaughey, which premiered at SXSW in 2019. Also an active producer of documentaries, Moretti's most recent projects include "Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond with Jim Carrey", and "The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy", based on the economic and social theory of Jeremy Rifkin, which Moretti directed & produced. In 2016, alongside longtime creative partner Spike Jonze, Moretti launched Viceland, an Emmy-winning 24-hour cable TV channel that is available in more than 80 territories around the world. His numerous awards and nominations include multiple Emmys, Peabodys, Canadian Screen Awards, D&AD, and Cannes Lions. Moretti's work has been invited to screen at such notable festivals as Cannes, Venice, Berlin, TIFF, Telluride, Sundance, and SXSW. A graduate of the Department of Cinema Studies at NYU Tisch, Moretti specialized in film theory and the avant-garde. As a screenwriter he has sold feature screenplays to New Line Cinema, Plan B, Summit Entertainment, and River Road Entertainment Reflecting his keen interest in sustainability and the world at large, Moretti is a supporter of Edible Schoolyards, the Urban Arts Program, and serves on the Chairman's Council of the environmental organization Conservation International.

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Back in June, we invited South African rave-rap crew Die Antwoord to play their first show in New York City. They are one of our favorite bands and their performance that day was one of the most hectic, intense and amazing shows we had seen in a long time. While we were hanging out with them here, Ninja and Yo-Landi kept talking about a little monster called Tokoloshe, the most feared of all African demons. Ninja told us about how when he was growing up, his nanny would use a stack of bricks to raise her bed up, just to keep the Tokoloshe away at night. It turns out this is a fairly common practice among women in South Africa since this hairy, pot-bellied dwarf, unlike your typical Western boogiemonsters, is believed to have a penis the size of a horse’s and a penchant for sneaking into people’s bedrooms and raping them.

Tokoloshe

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The VICE Guide to North Korea

"Getting into North Korea was one of the hardest and weirdest processes VBS has ever dealt with. They finally said, “OK, OK, you can come. But only as tourists.” At the airport, the North Korean consulate brought us to a restaurant and these women came out and started singing North Korean nationalist songs. We were thinking, “Look, we were just on a plane for 20 hours. Can we just go to bed?” but this guy with our group who was from the LA Times told us, “Everyone in here besides us is secret police. If you don’t act excited then you’re not going to get your visa. So we got drunk and jumped up onstage and sang songs with the girls. The next day we got our visas. A lot of people we had gone with didn’t get theirs. That was our first hint at just what a freaky, freaky trip we were embarking on…" -VICE Founder Shane Smith

The VICE Guide to North Korea

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