York Shackleton got his start in professional snowboarding and commercial advertising. As York moved into documentary films, he quickly realized it’s more important to show the authenticity of the event rather than express in an opinion on screen. The audience needs to decide on their own.

In the fiction world, the director actually reverse engineers much of his work. He puts distribution in place before he get financing. He also creates a lists of musts, such as actors, genre, and so on, before he fully develops a new idea. This how ‘211’ came to be.

York’s latest film stars Nicolas Cage, Sophie Skelton, and Michael Rainey Jr. The movie has been described as ‘End of Watch’ meets ‘Black Hawk Down.’ The true story comes from the police code that references “Shots fired!” and the movie is about the “longest and bloodiest bank heists in history,” which took place in 1997 North Hollywood.

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