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ABOUT CONNECTED
Ever faked a restroom trip to check your email? Slept with your smart phone? Or just wanted to unplug? In this funny, eye-opening and inspiring film, director Shlain takes audiences on an exhilarating rollercoaster ride to discover what it means to be connected in the 21st century.

From founding The Webby Awards to being a passionate advocate for The National Day of Unplugging, Shlain’s love-hate relationship with technology serves as the springboard for a thrilling exploration of modern life … and our interconnected future.

A personal film with universal relevance, Connected explores how, after centuries of declaring our independence, it may be time for us to declare our interdependence instead. 

TIFFANY SHLAIN ON MAKING CONNECTED
"I hope that Connected, will help create a global conversation about what it means to be connected in the 21st century. I believe that by engaging people to talk about connectedness in their own lives and in the world, the ripple effect of these conversations will have far reaching impact.

"Appreciating that this is a huge subject, I employ many tactics (humor, animation, archival and my own personal story) to attempt to untangle what interdependence and connectedness mean in terms of the history of the human species and moving forward. Through this journey, I wield a large magnifying glass to look at some of the absurd and beautiful behaviors of our species and our world.

"While the core components of humans desire to be 'connected' have not changed since we first appeared on this planet, I believe a new zeitgeist is emerging through all these new technologies that are making our world smaller and more intertwined."

ABOUT TIFFANY SHLAIN, DIRECTOR, CO-WRITER, EDITOR
Honored by Newsweek as one of the "Women Shaping the 21st Century," Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker, founder of The Webby Awards, co-founded the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, a Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute and a mother of two children.

Tiffany’s work with film, technology and activism has received 48 awards and her last four films premiered at Sundance. They include:

Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness, about reproductive rights in America,

The Tribe, an exploration of American Jewish identity through the history of the Barbie doll,

Yelp: With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, about our addition to technology and the importance of unplugging,

...and her new critically acclaimed feature documentary that just had it's theatrical release, Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology.

A celebrated thinker and speaker, she is a visiting professor at The University of Wales, has advised Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, is on the advisory board of M.I.T.'s Geospatial Lab and presented the 2010 campus-wide Commencement Address at UC Berkeley.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

"Examining everything from the big bang to twitter... a cinematic clickstreat...touching" - The New York Times

"Incredibly engaging! Like high-tech Terry Gilliam...so lively and so fun I could not take my eyes off ot it!" - Bits: Tech Talk, The New York Times

"with humor and creativity all her own" - Al Gore

"An intensely personal exploration of what human connection means in our modern technology-obsessed world." - The Atlantic

"Remarkable and Daring" - Tech Crunch

"It will change thinking" - Paste Magazine

"bright and electric" - The San Francisco Examiner

"...Touches the heart... Provokes the mind." - Cine Source Magazine

"highly energized romp through a myriad of ideas" - The Hollywood Reporter

"Laugh out-loud funny..." - J Weekly