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WEB

Directed by Michael Kleiman

  • “WEB is both a paean to and critique of burgeoning global media, and extremely entertaining.”
    Village Voice
  • “Engaging, informative, provocative and will leave you thinking.”
    Janet Walker, Yahoo Movies

Web is a cutting-edge documentary film that mixes a deeply personal story about people in the most remote parts of the world using digital technologies for the first time and interviews with some of the leading figures in the tech world.

For 10 months, award-winning director, Michael Kleiman, lived with families in small villages in Peru’s Andes Mountains and Amazon Jungle as children there experienced laptops and the Internet for the first time via the One Laptop per Child program. The film captures both the villagers’ first interactions with connective technologies – their discovery of tools like Google and Wikipedia, their hilarious search through videos on YouTube, and poignant moments in which they connect with family members they haven’t seen in years – as well their nuanced feelings about the arrival of this technology in their village. We see both the power offered by connective tools and the many technical complications that arise as they are brought to such isolated locations.

In addition to documenting the villagers technological journey, the film depicts the filmmaker’s own “analog” voyage to some of the most remote parts of the globe. A deep bond and moving friendship emerges between the lives on screen and the filmmaker behind the camera. In this manner, Web considers both the incredible potential born out of technological connection – new possibilities for dialogue, cultural exchange and collaboration – while also considering what is lost in the process – the loss of traditional cultures and a breakdown of our understanding of the word ‘connection’ itself.

The rich and compelling narrative in Peru is inter-cut with provocative and timely interviews with leading figures in the tech world, including One Laptop per Child Founder, Nicholas Negroponte; Wikipedia Founder, Jimmy Wales; ‘Father of the Internet,’ Vint Cerf; Former Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department, Anne-Marie Slaughter; and Foursquare Founder, Dennis Crowley. The interviews offer powerful insight into how the Internet and connective technologies are profoundly changing our world and inextricably intertwining our lives in the process.

For more info please visit: http://www.ahumanright.org/web/
"WEB – Denfri" In The Press
Denfri (Denmark): WEB examines precisely the relationship between new digital technologies such as the Internet, and the culture and the society in which they are expected to change. MORE +
Ansa (Italian): WEB documentary on the digital divideMORE +
Pro Expansion: One Laptop per Child, WEB tells the moving experience in PeruMORE +
EnGadget: WEB shows how One Laptop Per Child has helped kids in PeruMORE +
The Next Web: WEB is a touching documentary about One Laptop Per Child and the spread of the InternetMORE +
Wall Street Journal: Filmmakers Michael Kleiman and Michael Pertnoy gave VIPs a private screening of WEBMORE +
WEB chosen to screen at Social Media Week Berlin sponsored by MicrosoftMORE +
Stage Buddy: WEB offers a firsthand look into the lives of Peruvian villagers...to broach broader questions about connectivityMORE +
Forbes on WEB: What it means for the whole word to get onlineMORE +
Miami New Times on WEB: A sprightly documentary pondering the notion of globalizationMORE +
Right Now: WEB tackles the online world, the technological age, and our ever-changing notions of interdependence and personal connections.MORE +
Reap Magazine: WEB explores technology and connectivityMORE +
Filmmaker Magazine: Interview with WEB director, Michael Kleiman, on connectivity and social documentary.MORE +

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