They took your data.
Then they took control.
Data has surpassed oil as the world’s most valuable asset. It’s being weaponized to wage cultural and political warfare. People everywhere are in a battle for control of our most intimate personal details. 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. THE GREAT HACK forces us to question the origin of the information we consume daily. What do we give up when we tap that phone or keyboard and share ourselves in the digital age?
APRIL 1
Elon University
Elon, NC
JAN 7
Doc Fest
Ontario, Canada
JAN 1
Wimea Ocean Film Fest
Hawaii
NOV 19
Dreamforce SF
San Francisco, CA
NOV 19
League of Women Voters
Greater Rockford, IL
NOV 6
European Bank of Reconstruction and Development
London, UK
OCT 31
Platform for Investigative Journalists
Macedonia
OCT 24
Institute for Contemporary Ideas and Art
Sweden
OCT 9
European Parliament
Brussels, Belgium
OCT 6
Screening and Discussion with Rep. Adam Schiff
Los Angeles, CA
OCT 2
Capital High School
Washington State
OCT 2
Empowerment Society
Switzerland
SEPT 30
Netflix special screening
London, UK
SEPT 30
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
SEPT 27
Laylow Club with Hans Ulrich Obrist
London, UK
SEPT 25
USC Annenberg School
Los Angeles, CA
SEPT 22
Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, PA
SEPT 21
Tate Exchange Program
London, UK
JULY 24
Capitol Hill
Washington DC
JULY 23
Bretton Woods 75 Summit
Bretton Woods, NH
JULY 22
Lucas Film Presidio Theater with Kara Swisher
San Francisco, CA
JULY 22
The Core Club
New York, NY
JULY 17
Special screening for UK Parliament Digital Media, Culture and Sport Committee
London, UK
JULY 11
The Landmark
Los Angeles, CA
JULY 8
Landmark Embarcadero Theater
San Francisco, CA
JUNE 20
Cannes Lions Pop-Up Screening
Cannes, France
JUNE 12
MCB Tech Media City Bergen
Bergen, Norway
Karim Amer is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, best known for producing the documentary, The Square (Al Midan) in 2013, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and received Emmy Awards for Directing, Cinematography and Editing in 2014. Karim was also the producer of the award-winning film, Rafea: Solar Mama (2013), and teamed up with Angelina Jolie to executive produce the Academy Award nominated animated feature, The Breadwinner (2017).
Jehane Noujaim is an Academy Award nominated director and one of two non-fiction directors to have won the Directors Guild Award twice. Her Oscar nominated film, The Square (2013), won the Audience Award both at Sundance and Toronto. Noujaim has produced and directed other award-winning films including Rafea: Solar Mama (2013), Control Room (2004) and Startup.com (2001). In 2006, Noujaim was awarded the TED prize which she used to create Pangea Day. Noujaim’s work has been nominated by the DGA, IDA, Independent Spirit and several Critics Association Awards. Noujaim’s most recent release was an animated feature, The Breadwinner (2017) which she executive produced with Angelina Jolie and which was nominated for a 2018 Academy Award.
PEDRO KOS is an award winning director and editor. His feature documentary directorial debut BENDING THE ARC (co-directed with Kief Davidson) premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
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). His prior work also includes ELEMENTAL, directed by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and Gayatri Roshan, and Freida Mock’s SING CHINA!, on both of which he also served as 2nd Unit Director. He also served as the 2nd unit director on Jessica Sanders’ MARCH OF THE LIVING.
Pedro is from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and received his B.A. in Theater Directing from Yale University.
Geralyn White Dreyfous has a wide, distinguished background in the arts and participates on numerous boards and initiatives. She is the founder of the Utah Film Center and co-founder of Impact Partners Film Fund with Dan Cogan. In 2013, Geralyn co-founded Gamechanger Films, a film fund dedicated to women directors. Her independent producing credits include many award winning and nominated films.
JUDY KORIN fuses her backgrounds in graphic design and filmmaking to contribute to visually powerful and socially impactful works. Her credits include the documentaries BENDING THE ARC (as Co-Producer) and A CENTURY OF WOMEN (as Director; IDA and Emmy award nominee), as well as the indie scripted feature film FINDING NEIGHBORS (as Producer). Judy has directed and produced many short-form documentaries and branded content films for social justice and educational non-profits such as the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Community Action Network, and Students Run LA.
Erin Barnett is a documentary editor with a knack for shaping complex narratives and social issues into compelling films. Her acclaimed feature documentary work investigates 21st-century epidemics [Unseen Enemy], questions the world’s affection for Steve Jobs and his products [Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine], unearths a centuries-old tradition of systemic exploitation in American agriculture and one group’s plan to fix it [Food Chains], and delves into the psychology of lying [(Dis)Honesty- The Truth About Lies].
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].
Carlos is a documentary editor based in New York City. He has edited They Took Them Alive (Full Frame 2017), and Tre, Maison, Dasan (San Francisco Intl FF 2018), for which he received the Karen Schmeer Award for Excellence in Documentary Editing at IFFBOSTON. He has also worked on Netizens (Tribeca Film Festival 2018) as finishing editor. Carlos began his career as assistant editor on The Reckoning, Reportero, Kingdom of Shadows, Miss Sharon Jones! and Sembene! in addition to several animated feature films at Blue Sky Studios. Carlos was also a contributing editor at the Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab in 2013 and 2016. Originally from Peru by way of New Jersey, He studied Latin American Studies and economics at Wesleyan University and has an MA in Media Studies from The New School.
Gil Talmi is an EMMY nominated composer, producer and recording artist with a passion for socially
conscious films.
Blending his traditional orchestral background with tasteful modular electronics and eclectic world music
sensibilities, Talmi has created a signature sound that can be heard in many award winning productions
worldwide.
Some of Gil's most recent work includes Chavela (Aubin Pictures), Man On Fire (Fendelman Films/PBS),
Dykes, Camera, Action! (Caroline Berler Films), Tre Maison Dasan (Hello World/PBS) , Straight/Curve
(Epix) and the opening theme to the CBS News: 50 Years of 60 Minutes special.
Gil's score for Backyard Wilderness (Archipelago Film) was recently nominated for Best Original Score in
the 2018 GSCA Awards. In 2017, Gil's score for Chavela was nominated for Best Original Composition Feature
Film Score by the Music & Sound Awards. Gil was nominated for a National News and
Documentary Emmy Award for his work on CBS Evening News and recently won Best Documentary for
his score for Tales Of The Waria (PBS).
conscious films.
Blending his traditional orchestral background with tasteful modular electronics and eclectic world music
sensibilities, Talmi has created a signature sound that can be heard in many award winning productions
worldwide.
Some of Gil's most recent work includes Chavela (Aubin Pictures), Man On Fire (Fendelman Films/PBS),
Dykes, Camera, Action! (Caroline Berler Films), Tre Maison Dasan (Hello World/PBS) , Straight/Curve
(Epix) and the opening theme to the CBS News: 50 Years of 60 Minutes special.
Gil's score for Backyard Wilderness (Archipelago Film) was recently nominated for Best Original Score in
the 2018 GSCA Awards. In 2017, Gil's score for Chavela was nominated for Best Original Composition Feature
Film Score by the Music & Sound Awards. Gil was nominated for a National News and
Documentary Emmy Award for his work on CBS Evening News and recently won Best Documentary for
his score for Tales Of The Waria (PBS).
Basil Childers, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has spent his life focused on improving the existence for current and future generations. Around age 14 he decided to master the camera in order to show the natural world, to the world, and inspie generations to save said world. By age 35, he switched to moving pictures to more effectively inspire the masses. 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. This yielded an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2016 for footage released by the NY Times. Then the final feature doc, Ghostfleet(Paul G. Allen's Vulcan), premiered at Toronto Film Fest in 2018. Then, Karim Amir and Jehane Noujaim tracked him down to follow Cambridge Analytica whistle-blower Brittany Kaiser around the world for The Great Hack, a Netflix Original premiering at Sundance 2019.
Beyond imagemaking he is reinventing himself as a serial entrepreneur in the realm of regenerative capitolism and holistic industrial development, in order to more effectively fulfill his principle mission in life.
Beyond imagemaking he is reinventing himself as a serial entrepreneur in the realm of regenerative capitolism and holistic industrial development, in order to more effectively fulfill his principle mission in life.
Ian Moubayed is a New York based Director/DP who has collaborated with Emmy, Peabody, and Oscar Winning filmmakers to create impactful work. Moubayed is driven by bringing to life stories that explore the complex shades of humanity.
Ash Thorp founded his own creative design corporation, ALT Creative, Inc., and provides an array of skill sets ranging from illustration, graphic and motion design, to directorial services for feature films. Blade Runner 2049, Ghost in the Shell, and Assassin’s Creed are just a few titles of the most recent film projects involving his work.
shy kids is a group of multi-disciplinary award-winning filmmakers from Toronto, Canada. as talented as they are handsome, their innovative work in film and graphics for major international clients proves them anything but shy.
Elizabeth Woodward is a NY-based documentary filmmaker. She co-produced Netflix’s THE GREAT HACK, directed by Academy Award nominees Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2019. Other projects include AFTERWARD (DOC NYC 2018), BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY (Tribeca 2017) and Netflix’s DIRTY MONEY, documentaries for the BBC, and special projects for Fareed Zakaria on the CNN Documentary Unit. Elizabeth is currently co-producing a docu-fiction hybrid film about untold stories related to the Charlie Hebdo and November 2015 attacks in Paris. She is associate and field producing a HBO documentary series about NXIVM. Elizabeth graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University with a degree in History and Literature and holds a Masters of Philosophy from Cambridge University.
Bits is a documentary filmmaker living and working in New York City. A passionate storyteller, she seeks to find the humanity and complexity in each perspective. Bits associate and field produced THE GREAT HACK, a Netflix verité documentary directed by Oscar-nominated filmmakers Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2019. Bits most recently worked on an upcoming HBO documentary series about Albany-based organization NXIVM. She has contributed to content that has shown at Sundance, AFI, Sheffield, NYC Webfest, and The Fringe Festival. 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 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. Prior to moving to Brooklyn, New York, Daniel was a teaching assistant at Harvard University, where he was also a fellow at the Film Study Center.
Andrès is an independent filmmaker based in New York City, working as an editor and post-production of documentary films. 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! (2016) as an additional editor, and has edited content for PBS, BRIC TV and The New York Times.
Andrès holds a Master of Fine Arts in a social documentary from the School of Visual Arts, his thesis film was screened at the Workers Unite New York Film Festival in 2013. Prior to that Andrès was working as a journalist in Puerto Rico, writing for magazines, local newspapers and online content.
He was born surrounded by volcanoes in the mountains of Quito, Ecuador. In his free time, Andrès likes to read about aesthetics, anthropology, poetry, languages, and culture. He also loves to play flamenco guitar and one day wishes to learn to play el Charango from Ecuador.
Andrès holds a Master of Fine Arts in a social documentary from the School of Visual Arts, his thesis film was screened at the Workers Unite New York Film Festival in 2013. Prior to that Andrès was working as a journalist in Puerto Rico, writing for magazines, local newspapers and online content.
He was born surrounded by volcanoes in the mountains of Quito, Ecuador. In his free time, Andrès likes to read about aesthetics, anthropology, poetry, languages, and culture. He also loves to play flamenco guitar and one day wishes to learn to play el Charango from Ecuador.
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