#chicagoGirl (2013)

ALL 11/21/2013 (en) Documentary 74 Min
  • Release
    11/21/2013
  • Production
    Roco Films, GoDigital Media Group, Amplify Releasing
  • Rotten tomato
    68.33%
  • Original title
    #chicagoGirl
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

The Social Network Takes on a Dictator

Overview

From her childhood bedroom in the Chicago suburbs, an American teenage girl uses social media to run the revolution in Syria. Armed with Facebook, Twitter, Skype and cameraphones, she helps her social network in Damascus and Homs braves snipers and shelling in the streets and the world the human rights atrocities of one of the most brutal dictators. But as the revolution rages on, everyone in the network must decide what is the most effective way to fight a dictator: social media or AK-47s.

  1. Joe Piscatella

    Director

  2. Story



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Casts

  1. Ala'a Basatneh

    Self - #chicagoGirl

  2. Aous Al-Mubarak

    Self

  3. Bassel Shehadeh

    Self

  4. Mazhar 'Omar' Tayara

    Self - Citizen Journalist

  5. David Gorodyansky

    Self - Internet Security Expert

  6. Sascha Meinrath

    Self - Director, Open Technology Institute

  7. Zeynep Tufekci

    Self - Berkman Center, Harvard University

  8. Kurt Andersen

    Self - Writer, 'The Potester' for Time's Person of the Year 2011

  9. Wael Ghonim

    Self - Internet Activist

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 9 , Crews : 7

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#chicagoGirl (2013) 74 Min

ALL 11/21/2013 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 11/21/2013
  • Production
    Roco Films, GoDigital Media Group, Amplify Releasing
  • Original title #chicagoGirl
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

The Social Network Takes on a Dictator

Overview

From her childhood bedroom in the Chicago suburbs, an American teenage girl uses social media to run the revolution in Syria. Armed with Facebook, Twitter, Skype and cameraphones, she helps her social network in Damascus and Homs braves snipers and shelling in the streets and the world the human rights atrocities of one of the most brutal dictators. But as the revolution rages on, everyone in the network must decide what is the most effective way to fight a dictator: social media or AK-47s.

  1. Joe Piscatella

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Joe Piscatella, Jeff Castelluccio

    Editor

  4. Joe Piscatella, Mark Rinehart

    Producer