the great hack transcript

15. September 2020 @ 14:19

He has worked in documentaries such as Sundance award-winning and Oscar-nominated Cartel Land (2015) as a field producer and assistant editor; Brimstone & Glory!

The film follows a group of … Like an argument on the social network, it is tedious, seemingly complicated but intellectually underdeveloped, crammed with false facts and exaggerated statistics and features several blowhards who veer between self-righteous and self-congratulatory. The film flits from one tech-induced problem to another. While many of us are familiar with Cambridge Analytica's role in the Brexit and 2016 U.S. Presidential campaigns, it is disturbing to see how our personal data has been exploited.

in Theater Directing from Yale University.The documentaries she edited have been official selections at many reputable film festivals, including Berlinale, Tribeca, SXSW, Copenhagen, Sheffield, and HotDocs, and have been broadcast or streamed in more than ten countries across five continents.Erin honed her craft while working at Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions under award-winning editors Sloane Klevin [Taxi to the Dark Side], Alison Ellwood [Enron: Smartest Guys in the Room], and Chad Beck [Inside Job].Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 7 million people who take injustice personally.Privacy International supports people everywhere to protect privacy, dignity, and freedom. She has contributed to content that has shown at Sundance, AFI, Sheffield, NYC Webfest, and The Fringe Festival. Based on the critically acclaimed graphic novel.Twenty years after witnessing a bus full of students disappear, Astrid runs into a man she recognizes as one of the victims and begins to investigate.In the 1960s, hematologist Dr. Refaat Ismail unwillingly becomes a go-to guy for paranormal investigations. Based on the books by Ahmed Khaled Tawfik.In 2070, three siblings set out to change the fate of Europe after a global catastrophe fractures it into countless microstates fighting for dominance.

David Carroll (pictured) is an American professor who asked Cambridge Analytica for the information it held on him, exercising a right enshrined in Britain’s Data Protection Act of 1998 and normally understood to be reserved for Europeans. WATCH NOW ON NETFLIX.

During Carroll's legal battle, SCL filed for bankruptcy. JAN 27.

It is unclear, to this reviewer at least, what the point is of “The Great Hack”. Large chunks of the film are made up of Cambridge Analytica sales decks, which the directors appear to take as gospel truth about how sophisticated and successful the company was. and Sembene!

The main problem with The Great Hack is that so many issues are conflated. Five years later, a fortunate sequence of events landed him on the high impact documentary project about slavery in the fishing industry with Shannon Service and Jeffrey Waldron. Bits is originally from London and graduated cum laude in Italian Literature and Theater Studies from Princeton.Daniel Claridge is a filmmaker whose work includes both documentary and fiction film. His feature documentary directorial debut BENDING THE ARC (co-directed with Kief Davidson) premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

Explore how a data company named Cambridge Analytica came to symbolize the dark side of social media in the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.A single mother turns to housekeeping to make ends meet as she battles poverty, homelessness and bureaucracy. With the help of British-born social entrepreneur, writer, and organizer

His documentary short film Dragstrip (2015) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and his fiction short Albany Street (2012) screened at the inaugural R4 Video Festival in Paris, France. From award-winning filmmakers Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim, THE GREAT HACK uncovers the dark world of data exploitation with astounding access to the personal journeys of key players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal.Academy-Award nominees Amer and Noujaim (The Square, Control Room, Startup.com) continue their tradition of exploring the seismic ripples of social media with this riveting, complex film. Noujaim’s work has been nominated by the DGA, IDA, Independent Spirit and several Critics Association Awards. What do we give up when we tap that phone or keyboard and share ourselves in the digital age?His previous work as an editor includes Jehane Noujaim’s Academy Award nominee THE SQUARE, which earned Pedro an Emmy Award for Best Editing for a Non-Fiction program, Lucy Walker’s Academy Award nominee WASTE LAND, Jon Shenk’s THE ISLAND PRESIDENT (2011 Toronto Film Festival Documentary People’s Choice Award winner) and Ms. Walker’s THE CRASH REEL (2013 SXSW Film Festival Audience Award winner).