Grand Jury Prize – Documentary – Sundance Film Festival, 2009
“Bone-Chilling. Deserves an audience as expansive as MySpace…Tops on every level!” Variety
“Riveting – a compelling cautionary tale…” New York Times
“I can’t express enough how awesome this film is, or how horrifyingly revealing of where our own society has headed.” San Francisco Bay
On the 40th anniversary of the Internet, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC tells the story of the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of,” visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director, Ondi Timoner (DIG!), documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives.
Josh Harris, often called the “Warhol of the Web,” founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the infamous dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also created his vision of the future: an underground bunker in NYC where 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days over the turn of the millennium. With Quiet, Harris proved how, in the not-so-distant future of life online, we will willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire. Through his experiments, including another six-month stint living under 24-hour live surveillance online which led him to mental collapse, he demonstrated the price we will all pay for living in public.
WE LIVE IN PUBLIC will be released in the UK by Dogwoof on 13 November 2009 and will premiere at the BFI 53rd London Film Festival on 23 October 2009.
Director Ondi Timoner is the first and only two-time Grand Jury Prize winner in Sundance history, after her previous winner DIG! She will be available for interviews. Josh Harris will also be available – please contact Debbie Murray at Aim Publicity to organise.
