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Able Danger: Straight Out of Flatbush

August 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

We got an email from Paul Krik, the director of the film Able Danger, which is a 9/11 conspiracy flick. What’s interesting about it is that it takes place in Flatbush and features a cafe based on Vox Pop. Here’s what he wrote:

Able Danger was shot in entirely in victorian flatbush by a local resident (dave herman, me) and is inspired by Vox Pop and is shot at Vox Pop, the Farm, Club 7 and houses in the hood!

The film is showing at the Pioneer Theater in the East Village on 9/11 and other dates.

Here’s a bit more about the film from its website:

Able Danger is the story of Thomas Flynn, a Brooklyn 9/11 truther (played by Adam Nee), who falls into a noir pastiche when a mysterious Eastern European beauty (played by Elina Lowensohn) arrives at his bookstore café with the irrefutable proof of American secret intelligence involvement in the planning and execution of 9/11. When Thomas is implicated in the murder of his friend and employee, he’s forced to unravel her complex web of lies while attempting to fight his natural attraction to her. As it turns out, she possesses the Able Danger hard-drive, the smoking gun that proves the identities and methods of the real architects of 9/11, and Thomas is willing to risk everything to expose the truth. The film gets its title from the real secret government program of the same name that destroyed 2.5 terabytes of data in March 2001, and the café featured is based on the very real Brooklyn café for radical readers, Vox Pop.

More about the film here.

Tags: Flatbush

1 response so far ↓

  • 1 Brenda from Flatbush // Aug 20, 2008 at 10:48 am

    Oh dear…I don’t think it’s a comedy, sigh. Woody, why are you making polished Euroflicks when there are “noirish” conspirarcy-theory stories set in Flatbush that cry out for your touch? Who else but the old-school Woodman could do justice to any concept that combined “noir,” “conspiracy,” and “Flatbush” in the same sentence?!?