Documentary · 2024 · 17m

Dan O'Neill And The Air Pirates: A Short Film

No poster

Director

Cast

Dan O'Neill as Self Ted Richards as Self Shary Flenniken as Self(Voice)

Crew

Sharif Nakhleh — Editor Sharif Nakhleh — Writer Sharif Nakhleh — Producer

Tagline

You can't have more fun than drawing pictures and pissing people off, it's way better than passive aggression, it's just plain old aggression

Synopsis

This is the untold story of Dan O'Neill and his underground comic collective "The Air Pirates" which would take on the brass at Disney in a notorious decade-long legal battle over copyright infringement and freedom of speech. Dan O'Neill's battle against Walt Disney Productions would be the longest legal copyright case in history.

Key Collaborators

Sharif Nakhleh Editor Sharif Nakhleh Writer Sharif Nakhleh Producer

Follow the Thread