#chicagoGirl

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Overview

From her childhood bedroom in the Chicago suburbs, an American teenage girl uses social media to run the revolution in Syria. Armed with Facebook, Twitter, Skype and cameraphones, she helps her social network in Damascus and Homs braves snipers and shelling in the streets and the world the human rights atrocities of one of the most brutal dictators. But as the revolution rages on, everyone in the network must decide what is the most effective way to fight a dictator: social media or AK-47s.

Release Date

21 November 2013

74 minutes

Director

Main Cast

Self - #chicagoGirl
Self - Citizen Journalist
Self - Internet Security Expert
Self - Director, Open Technology Institute
Self - Berkman Center, Harvard University
Self - Writer, 'The Potester' for Time's Person of the Year 2011
Self - Internet Activist

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