Join us on Friday, September 20 for a special screening and film talk on Hacking Hate, Simon Klose’s kinetic and socially pressing documentary following award-winning Swedish journalist My Vingren as she goes undercover online to expose a network of neo-Nazis and far-right organizations fostering hate speech and extremism on a global scale.
Social media has become a major vehicle for spreading hate speech and a safe harbor for authoritarian agendas. With the U.S. elections on the doorstep, this screening of Hacking Hate is essential to understand the reasons for the rise of hateful content and disinformation as well as ways to hold social media companies accountable for their role in proliferating hate online. This event is a special impact screening co-hosted by Think-Film Impact Production and includes a post-screening Q&A with director Simon Klose.
Winner of Best Documentary Feature at Tribeca Film Festival. “Hacking Hate provides a bracing insider’s look at the grossness that proliferates throughout [social media’s] right-wing regions” (Nick Schager, The Daily Beast).
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Simon Klose is a Swedish documentary producer and director based in Malmö, Sweden. Simon holds a master’s degree in law from Stockholm University. In 2013, Simon released “TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard,” a feature doc about the file sharing conflict. The film made history as the first film ever to open up the Berlinale and simultaneously being released for free online. The film became a global viral phenomenon, propelling the story to an audience of millions of viewers. In 2016 Simon produced and hosted “Food Hacking Japan,” a short doc TV-series for VICE Munchies on food disruptors in Tokyo.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Amy Shepherd is COO at Think-Film Impact Production, Europe’s leading impact media company operating at the cutting-edge intersection of art and social change. An experienced policy strategist she has an extensive professional background in international law, politics and social justice advocacy. A graduate of Cambridge University and Utrecht University, Amy trained first as a barrister and later worked for a number of international NGOs before finding a home for her analytical and creative talents in film impact. Amy’s film impact credits include Oscar-nominated NAVALNY (CNN Films), Oscar-shortlisted THE TERRITORY (National Geographic), award-winning DARK WATERS (Participant Media, feat. Mark Ruffalo), THE SON (See Saw Films, feat. Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern), THE SCARS OF ALI BOULALA (Sisyfos Film) and iHUMAN (UpNorth).