Fast Eddy's Old News

Fast Eddy's Old News

  • Overview
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 21, 2015

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Fast Eddy vanad uudised

Production Companies

Allfilm

Director

Marko Raat

Description

The story of Edgar Väär (1929 Kuressaare, Estonia - 2015 Toronto, Canada), a freelance cameraman, who earned his nickname ‘Fast Eddy’ by reaching the scene of events before police and CBC crime reporters. A major part of his filmed footage has aired on TV. The rest of the footage, over hundreds of thousands of film stock, that he didn’t manage to sell to news broadcasters, are piled up in Eddy’s downtown Toronto penthouse rooms and basement. Do old news have value to be sold? What does the end of a person look like who has documented the ends and destructions of many others in the infotainment industry?