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Crypto Downfall: Cutter Hodierne Kidnaps Raúl Castillo & Melonie Diaz for “Cold Wallet”

Published on March 29, 2023

It’ll have been a long decade between debut and sophomore film projects but Fishing Without Nets filmmaker Cutter Hodierne got back into the director’s chair with the Vanishing Angle producer Benjamin Wiessner for Cold Wallet. Deadline reports that the quartet of Raúl Castillo, Tony Cavalero, Melonie Diaz and Josh Brener all signed onto the project. Production just wrapped – so we’re thinking this is a definite Sundance contender for next January.

The project was written by John Hibey (who was also on team Fishing Without Nets) the crypto-heist thriller is inspired by real stories related to when the FTX scandal broke. It follows a rag-tag team of Redditors who lose everything in a crypto Ponzi scheme and plot to kidnap the ‘financial influencer’ who screwed them over. Hibey and Hodierne are also producing. Hodierne’s won Best Director at Sundance in 2014. We had the chance to sit down with him back in Park City.

Related Topics:Benjamin Wiessner, Cold Wallet, Cutter Hodierne, John Hibey, Josh Brener, Melonie Diaz, Raul Castillo, Tony Cavalero, top-stories

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).