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Simon Ardizzone and Sarah Teale are, with Russell Michaels, the directors of the HBO documentary Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections, which is now streaming for free on HBO Go and HBO Now. Ardizzone and Teale previously collaborated, also with Michaels, on the Emmy-nominated 2006 HBO documentary Hacking Democracy. (Picture of Ardizzone by Sarah Teale; picture of Teale by Carin Van Der Donk.)

Simon Ardizzone and Sarah Teale

Film

What Happened When Our Election-Hacking Doc Came Out During Coronavirus

Jay Giampietro is a writer, director, actor and musician whose short films have played the New York Film Festival, BAMcinemaFest, and the Montclair and Maryland Film Festivals. His short film Hernia won the 2015 Hammer to Nail Summer Shorts contest and he made his acting debut in the feature Stinking Heaven, which was distributed by Factory 25. His <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jaygiampietro/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">street photography</a> capturing the eccentric denizens of New York City has been praised by The Village Voice, British GQ and The Guardian and is the subject of Joe Stankus&#8217; short documentary <a href="https://vimeo.com/257314493" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I’ve Never Been A Fisherman</a>. His most recent short films are <a href="https://vimeo.com/314395817" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Quarterbacks</a> (2018) and <a href="https://vimeo.com/245097348" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unpresidented</a> (2017).

Jay Giampietro

How Filmmaker and Street Photographer Jay Giampietro Saw Manhattan’s MAGA Midterms

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