Nightcrawlers (2017) - 5 years ago, filmmaker Stephen McCoy documented homelessness and addiction on the streets of Baltimore; "Nightcrawlers". Now; he's become one.

Sure, man. Even though we are intelligent human beings who have done nothing but release our work for free, rather than put the trailer under our actual Vimeo page where we would reap at least the rewards of more subscribers, and just posting it on Reddit under a fake name not associated with us; instead for absolutely little gain, we were just in cahoots with Steve in some strange attempt for us to get him Vimeo views?

I just can't understand what our motivation would be; sure in the past I made a few mistakes not realizing you couldn't post your own content on here? (Not promotion since our work is online already for free) I realized this isn't allowed and stopped doing; check my history.

A member of our company found his trailer on vimeo, 3 years old and with 200 views. We were shocked. We put it on Reddit over the past few days, trying to find or contact the mysterious Stephen McCoy, wondering where this project went. 50% of our proceeds on our last documentary were given to Standing Rock.

After digging, and it getting hot on Reddit today; we inquired further and using facebook and finding family, we took a leap of faith and messaged them. We were told he was in a homeless shelter unable to finish the film.

So.. We called the shelter, got a hold of him, and he said he had hundreds of hours of footage and documented his own descent into an addict which happened during the making of the film. Around this time it was getting hot on Reddit, so we made decision to buy the rights to the film, because his story and his dedication inspired us and we believe this film could be an eye opening piece.

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