Startup.com
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| Startup.com Poster | |
| Format | Video (DVD) |
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| Genre | Documentary |
| Origin | USA |
| Language | English |
| Release Date | 25 May 2001 |
| Running Time | 107 min |
| Production | |
| Created by | Jehane Noujaim, Chris Hegedus |
| Directed by | Jehane Noujaim, Chris Hegedus |
| Produced by | D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus, Rebecca Marshall, Jehane Noujaim, Frazer Pennebaker, Edward Rugoff |
| Written by | NA |
| Screenplay by | NA |
| Distributed by | Artisan Entertainment |
| Narrated by | NA |
| Starring | Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, Tom Herman |
| Music by | NA |
| Cinematography by | Jehane Noujaim |
| Edited by | Pedro Pablo Celedón, Chris Hegedus, Erez Laufer, Jehane Noujaim |
| Production Company | Noujaim Films, Pennebaker Hegedus Films |
| Location(s) | NA |
| Original Channel | NA |
| Additional Information | |
| Based on | NA |
| Topics | Technology, Computers, Hacking, Business |
| Follows | NA |
| Precedes | NA |
| Associated Video | NA |
| Website | NA |
Startup.com is a 2001 documentary film that chronicles the dot-com start-up phenomenon and its eventual end. The film follows e-commerce website govWorks and its founders Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman from 1999-2000 as the Internet bubble was bursting.
Production
The film was made by Egyptian-American film director Jehane Noujaim and American documentary filmmaker Chris Hegedus. Noujaim had been Kaleil Tuzman's Harvard classmate and began filming Tuzman as he quit his job at Goldman Sachs, to begin govWorks with his high school friend Tom Herman. Noujaim contacted Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker for help in financing the project. The film was distributed by Artisan Entertainment (which was later acquired by Lions Gate Entertainment).
The film was shot in digital video. The filmmakers shot for over two years, and were editing the more than 400 hours of video and film right up to their Sundance Film Festival premiere in early 2001. They re-edited the last few minutes of the film just prior to its May 2001 theatrical release.
Since the release of the film, Tom Herman and Kaleil Isaza Tuzman have worked together at Recognition Group and JumpTV
Parody
The film was parodied by the 2002 mockumentary Dot, which featured Simeon Schnapper as Si Phateuxx, the parodical counterpart of Kaleil Tuzman.
Downloads
| Film | User | Format | Link | Notes |
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| Startup.com (2001) | NA | [ Archive.org] |
