#chicagoGirl (2013)
The Social Network Takes on a Dictator
2013 · 1h 14m · Documentary
Genres: Documentary
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…
Director: Joe Piscatella
Writers: Joe Piscatella
Music by: Christopher H. Knight
Editor: Jeff Castelluccio, Joe Piscatella
Cast
Ala'a Basatneh as Self - #chicagoGirlAous Al-Mubarak as SelfBassel Shehadeh as SelfMazhar 'Omar' Tayara as Self - Citizen JournalistDavid Gorodyansky as Self - Internet Security ExpertSascha Meinrath as Self - Director, Open Technology InstituteZeynep Tufekci as Self - Berkman Center, Harvard UniversityKurt Andersen as Self - Writer, 'The Potester' for Time's Person of the Year 2011Wael Ghonim as Self - Internet ActivistMore like this
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