Hot Docs ’14: Personal loss drove Brian Knappenberger’s Aaron Swartz doc
April 25, 2014, by Manori Ravindran

From the article:

…a friend’s suicide and a meeting with Swartz’s father prompted him to pursue the documentary, which may not have happened otherwise…

…he had lost a friend to suicide four months before Swartz’s own suicide, and had recently become a father himself. Coupled with a meeting with Swartz’s dad, Knappenberger said the doc soon began to take shape.