Underplayed Gems

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz poster
Directed by
Brian Knappenberger
Genre
biographical film, documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 45m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.9 of 10 from 466 voters
Elsewhere
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How it feels

This documentary follows the life of Aaron Swartz, a programmer and activist. It shows his early work and his later legal troubles.

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What happens

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz is a 2014 American biographical documentary film about Aaron Swartz written, directed, and produced by Brian Knappenberger. The film premiered in the US Documentary Competition program category at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2014. After its premiere at Sundance, Participant Media and FilmBuff acquired distribution rights of the film. The film was released to theatres and VOD on June 27, 2014, in United States. It was followed by a broadcast television premiere on Participant's network Pivot in late 2014. The film also played at the 2014 SXSW on March 15, 2014. It served as the opening film at the 2014 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival on April 24, 2014. The film's UK premiere took place at Sheffield Doc/Fest in June 2014 and won the Sheffield Youth Jury Award that year. In August 2014, the film was screened at the Barbican Centre in London as part of Wikimania 2014. The BBC also aired the film in January 2015 as part of its Storyville documentary brand. It was also released on the Internet with a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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