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FACEBOOKISTAN

Jakon Gottschau
Screening time  
25.02. / Thursday, 22:00 - 00:00 Theatre 4  
There is a film that will make you think twice before leaving your next digital footprint in Facebook's eternal memory.

1.4 billion people are on Facebook. But even though we voluntarily share our otherwise completely private information on the social network – and even if we just as voluntarily give Facebook permission to use our information and make money off it – very little is known about the secretive business itself. For example, how is the world's largest public space controlled and monitored? Why are pages and posts censored? And why does Facebook keep data, even after the user has deleted it? 'Like' it or not – here is a film that will make you think twice before leaving your next digital footprint in Facebook's eternal memory. Meet, among others, the author Peter Øvig Knudsen, whose book Hippie was too much for Facebook with its historical pictures of bare breasts and 1970s permissiveness. Facebook is the most visible symptom of the increasingly closed and centralised Internet, but it is also a social revolution with a great democratic potential.

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Jakon Gottschau

For the last 18 years Jakob Gottschau has produced numerous award-winning documentary series, which have been shown in more than 50 countries. These include Late Lessons from Early Warnings and Bringing Life to Space. Gottschau also produced and directed the series 100 years of immigration which won a TV Oscar as the year’s best Danish documentary production. His latest productions are Cyberwar, Facebookistan and When the Ice Disappears.

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FACEBOOKISTAN

Denmark
2015, 59'

Directed by:
Jakon Gottschau

Screenplay by:
Jakob Gottschau

Cinematography:
Jakob Gottschau

Edited by:
Jens Pedersen

Music:
Edmund Joliffe, Julian Hamlin

Producers:
Felicity Willetts, Jakob Gottschau

Produced by:
Express TV-Produktion ApS

Festivals & Awards:

CPX:DOX 2015