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Screenagers (2016)

Screenagers poster
Directed by
Delaney Ruston
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A doctor and filmmaker explores how digital devices affect young people. She considers whether to give her own daughter a smartphone while examining the need for rules around screen time.

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What happens

Screenagers is a documentary created and directed by Delaney Ruston, a physician and film director, to describe growing up in a tech saturated world where it is her opinion that balance needs to be drawn between screen time and screen free time. In the documentary, filmmaker Delaney Ruston must decide if she should give an iPhone to her teenage daughter. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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