Joseph Gordon-Levitt

With the movie “SNOWDEN” (about Edward Snowden) recently released, and Julian Assange threatening to publish more secrets on WikiLeaks, my friend and I got into talking about the various degrees of whistleblowing and the categories they fall into, such as provocateurs, agents and activists. With the “Freedom of Information Act” the question of “what is acceptable and what is traitorous?” is a hot topic.

The Walk was made for IMax. It is a true back-story of the quirky, charismatic, passionate, French high-wire artist Philippe Petit who magically envisioned, brilliantly planned, creatively improvised and miraculously carried out, with the help of his adventurous anti-authority crew, one of the most dramatic dare-devilish stunts in New York history; walking the immense void between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.