Sundance
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THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY: THE STORY OF AARON SWARTZ @ Sundance 2014
This is the story of a charming and selfless information prodigy that strived to use his talent to make this a freer and better world for which he ended up paying for with his life. Aaron Swartz was born in Chicago, the middle son, of successful middle-class Jewish parents. Inquisitive from birth, he taught himself…
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WEB JUNKIE @ Sundance 2014
China does nothing on a small scale. The Government has established 400 rehabilitation and treatment centers to ‘cure’ what they claim is over 24 million young people of compulsive Internet use … or as they crudely term it ‘electronic heroin’. This eye-opening documentary looks at just one of these military type camps and how it…
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The Case Against 8
On the morning of November 5th 2008 our euphoria over the election of Barak Obama as the first African/American President of the US was severely dampened when we learnt that voters in California had passed Proposition 8, albeit by a slim majority. Overnight they had taken away the legal right of same-sex marriages in the…
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MOTHER OF GEORGE
The opening scenes of Andrew Dosunmu’s very touching drama is the scene of a Nigerian wedding with its glorious technicolour of vibrant flowing robes, and energetic singing and dancing, and all the traditional rituals is a joyous sight to be hold. This rich canvas however is not set in Africa, but in a Banqueting Hall in…
