of the film due to its depiction of his marijuana and cough syrup use. The case was eventually thrown out of court by a judge. In 2008, Lough premiered The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee "Scratch" Perry, a documentary following Lee "Scratch" Perry, at the SXSW Film Festival. Named after Perry's 1969 album of the same name, the film played in dozens of film festivals worldwide, and was screened across the globe in nearly 100 theaters in 2011. The film is equally devoted to thirty years of Jamaican music and culture, and was narrated by Academy Award winner Benicio Del Toro. Lough's first sports documentary The Motivation premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in late April 2013. The film follows eight of the best professional skateboarders in the world including Ryan Sheckler, Nyjah Huston and Paul Rodriguez III. Netflix commissioned two sequels: Motivation 2: The Chris Cole Story and Motivation 3: The Next Generation. In 2017, Lough switched to political documentaries, profiling millennial radicals from the U.S. and the U.K. attacking the system through dangerous technological means. The documentary film, titled The New Radical, premiered in competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and featured Cody Wilson, Amir Taaki, Julian Assange and others. IndieWire called it "A real life Mr. Robot," in reference to the popular television series. Lough followed up this film with Alt Right: Age of Rage a documentary about the Alt-Right movement that ended in tragedy at the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia where his crew was caught in the melee. Age of Rage premiered on Netflix in the US and BBC in the UK. In 2019, Lough Executive Produced the first feature from his long-time editor Alex Lee Moyer, TFW NO GF, an exploration of Incel culture in America. Filmography References External links American film directors Living people 1979 births Tisch School of the Arts alumni Indian directors