Sci-Fi Cinema Doc ‘So Unreal’, Narrated By Debbie Harry, Gets North American Deal
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By Andreas Wiseman – 2nd July 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Altered Innocence has acquired North American rights to documentary So Unreal, narrated by singer Debbie Harry.
Heralding from filmmaker Amanda Kramer (By Design), the “visual essay” explores a wave of sci-fi movies between 1981 to 2001 that reckoned with artificial intelligence, cyberspace, and virtual reality—films including Tron, Videodrome, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Hackers, The Lawnmower Man, The Matrix, and more.
The film, which features an electro soundtrack, excavates the “technophobic fantasies and digital desires that defined a generation’s fears and hopes for the future”. Festival stops have included Rotterdam, CPH: DOX, Fantastic Fest, and more.
The deal was negotiated between Altered Innocence and the filmmakers. The company plans a theatrical and home ent release this fall. International sales are handled by Yellow Veil.
Kramer’s latest film By Design, starring Juliette Lewis, debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
“We’ve been giant fans of Amanda Kramer’s work for some time now,” said Frank Jaffe at Altered Innocence. “Her unique vision on this medium is totally trippy and worth seeking out!”
Kramer added: “Frank at Altered Innocence is bold cinematic taste supreme. We are in the company of true aesthetes; how dreamy for So Unreal to hang out on the shelves with all the AI jewels.”
https://deadline.com/2025/07/debbie-harry-narrated-sci-fi-cinema-documentary-us-deal-1236447639/
