BLACK CODE

By Nicholas DE PENCIER

UPSIDE DISTRIBUTION - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2016

WHERE BIG DATA MEET BIG BROTHER

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2016
Official Selection
Cinéfest Sudbury 2016
REFRAME FILM FESTIVAL 2016
AVAILABLE LIGHT FILM FESTIVAL 2016
OSLO DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2017
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FESTIVAL 2017
MOVIES THAT MATTER FILM FESTIVAL 2017
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FESTIVAL 2017
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • CANADA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Nicholas DE PENCIER
    • Producer(s)
    • Nicholas DE PENCIER (MERCURY FILMS INC.)
    • Synopsis
    • Black Code is a gripping account of how governments control and manipulate the internet in order to censor and monitor their citizens. With stories from exiled Tibetan monks circumventing China’s surveillance apparatus, Syrian citizens tortured for Facebook posts, Brazilian activists using social media to distribute alternative news, and Pakistani online violence against women, we see firsthand the high-stakes consequences that our unprecedented level of digital communication can produce. As this battle for control of cyberspace is waged, our ideas of citizenship, privacy, and democracy will be challenged to the very core.