The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz Page #14

Synopsis: The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz's help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was Swartz's groundbreaking work in social justice and political organizing combined with his aggressive approach to information access that ensnared him in a two year legal nightmare. It was a battle that ended with the taking of his own life at the age of 26. Aaron's story touched a nerve with people far beyond the online communities in which he was a celebrity. This film is a personal story about what we lose when we are tone deaf about technology and its relationship to our civil liberties.
Genre: Biography, Crime, Documentary
Director(s): Brian Knappenberger
Actors: Tim Berners-Lee, Cindy Cohn, Gabriella Coleman, Cory Doctorow
Production: FilmBuff and Participant
  4 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.1
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
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Year:
2014
105 min
$48,911
Website
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- [Interviewer] Did you say fourteen years old?

- Fourteen-year-old kid, yeah, and most of them ignored it but one of them sent him an email back,

and said this is not an entirely stupid idea, why don't you come on over?

This kid worked evenings and weekends with this researcher, and in February I heard him on the news

just a couple of weeks after Aaron died, when Aaron was in the news a lot..

Sorry...

and he said the reason he was on the news was 'cause they'd done it. They were shipping

an early test for pancreatic cancer that was going to save lives,

and he said, "This is why what Aaron did was so important."

Because you never know, right? This truth of the universe is not only something

that policymakers use to figure out, you know, what the speed limit should be.

It's where the thing that's gonna keep your kid from dying of pancreatic cancer comes from,

and without access, the person who might come up with the thing that's got your number on it,

may never find that answer.

He sleeped so well, he didn't fall out of [baby talk], not even when he dreamed he was back on the spacecraft.

[Aaron's dad] Very good, Aaron. Very good. Yay, Aaron!

Okay, now it's song time.

AARON SWARTZ, 1986-2013

[credits]

[the end]

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Brian Knappenberger

Brian Knappenberger is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, known for The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, and his work on Bloomberg Game Changers. The documentary film We Are Legion (2012) was written and directed by Knappenberger. It is about the workings and beliefs of the self-described hacktivist collective Anonymous.In June 2014, The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz was released. The film is about the life of internet activist Aaron Swartz. The film was on the short list for the 2015 Academy Award for best documentary feature.Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press was released on Netflix in June 2017, after debuting at the Sundance Film Festival. It follows professional wrestler Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker Media, and the takeover of the Las Vegas Review-Journal by casino owner Sheldon Adelson.Knappenberger has directed and executive produced numerous other documentaries for the Discovery Channel, Bloomberg, and PBS, including PBS' Ice Warriors: USA Sled Hockey. He owns and operates Luminant Media, a Los Angeles based production and post-production company. more…

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