Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Casey Neistat
A short film by Casey Neistat.
What it means to make it count.
I made this movie with my brother Van in 2003. It was a pivotal film in my career, before this was released online no one had ever seen anything I'd made. This movie received a crazy amount of press and was a big step in my career.
When Casey Neistat first sat down to interview YouTube sensation, David Dobrik, neither of them knew they were about to capture one of the most precipitous rise and falls in the history of the internet... in real-time. David, protected by the belief that he’s just a kid with a camera, has constantly assumed risks. Even as a story of a sexual assault breaks, he’s busy covering up a near-lethal accident caught on film, intended to be entertainment. In the real world, these kinds of actions have life-changing consequences, but in the gold rush ecosystem of Social Media influence, the audience decides who succeeds, and who gets banished forever.
He lives in the projects and worked in a Brooklyn slaughter house. Two days a week he goes fishing under the Williamsburg bridge.
