Event

The Internet's Own Boy

Jul 11 - Jul 17

(Brian Knappenberger, United States, 2014, DCP, 104 min)

Friday, Jul 11 at 08:00PM
Saturday, Jul 12 at 08:00PM
Sunday, Jul 13 at 08:00PM
Monday, Jul 14 at 01:00PM
Monday, Jul 14 at 03:00PM
Monday, Jul 14 at 08:00PM
Tuesday, Jul 15 at 08:00PM
Wednesday, Jul 16 at 08:00PM
Thursday, Jul 17 at 08:00PM

In 2011, the Federal Government indicted Reddit co-founder and internet activist Aaron Swartz for downloading thousands of academic journal articles without paying fees. The messy battle that followed put Swartz's idealistic view of the Internet as an equalizing force of democratic information sharing on trial, and ultimately concluded when Swartz committed suicide in the face of a 35-year prison sentence.

Through a mix of touching interviews with his closest confidants and erudite commentary on intellectual property rights, SOPA, and the labyrinthine legal nature of Aaron's case, The Internet's Own Boy chronicles Swartz's remarkable story, as he fitfully grows from a precocious pre-teen who played a pivotal role in designing the architecture of RSS, to a long haired Occupy folk hero who fought regulations of internet free speech and championed data sharing as a human right.