Director: Roxine Helberg
Ambition curdles into obsession as a journalism student learns just how far she'll go to impress her idol.
What is Cold Copy about?
Cold Copy centers on an ambitious journalism student who becomes fixated on winning the approval of a celebrated but ruthless news reporter she's desperate to work under. As the student edges closer to her mentor's orbit, the line between admiration and manipulation starts to blur, and she finds herself bending facts and reshaping her own story to keep the older woman's attention. The mentorship turns into a battle of wills where professional ethics get tested against personal ambition, and the film uses that dynamic to probe a bigger question about what happens when the pursuit of a story overrides the pursuit of truth. Told largely from the student's perspective, the film builds tension less through plot twists than through the slow erosion of the protagonist's own principles.
Cast & crew
Bel Powley plays the journalism student at the story's center, opposite Tracee Ellis Ross as the reporter she idolizes, with Jacob Tremblay, Nesta Cooper, and James Tupper rounding out the supporting cast.
Context & significance
Directed by Roxine Helberg and released in 2024, Cold Copy is a Canadian-American thriller set inside a journalism school and newsroom environment, using the media world as the setting for its story about mentorship, ambition, and ethical compromise.
Where & how to watch
Cold Copy is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can choose whichever format suits them best. This page can be read by anyone without an account; watching the film itself requires logging into K-Time, where the interface is designed around a Farsi-first experience for diaspora viewers.