Mario Calabresi
editor-in-chief and CEO Chora Media
Lisa Nishimura
VP original documentary programming Netflix
Interview of Lisa Nishimura, Vice President Original Documentary and Comedy Programming at Netflix. With Mario Calabresi.
to be followed by the screening of Nobody Speak.
Hulk Hogan - aka Terry Bollea - was among the most famous pro wrestlers of the 80s. Outside the ring, in 2016, the former WWE star was at the center of a completely different battle: the trial that saw him defeat - and scuttle economically - the online media organisation Gawker, sentenced to a payment of $140 million for invasion of privacy. At the center of the trial, the publication by Gawker of excerpts of a video in which Hulk Hogan had sexual relations with a married woman. The legal costs incurred by Hulk Hogan were paid, it was subsequently revealed, by Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal.
Brian Knappenberger is the director of the documentary Nobody speak - Hulk Hogan, Gawker and trials of a free press, a finalist at the 2017 Sundance Festival, while Netflix has acquired the international rights of the film.
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