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Silicon Valley Revolution / 21st Berlin & Beyond

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SILICON VALLEY REVOLUTION

Sat., Feb. 4, 2017 5:00 pm
The Castro, San Francisco

World Premiere
In Person: Director Jan Tenhaven
and other special guests from the film

90 mins. Germany (2017). DCP Projection. German and English w/ English subtitles.

This documentary tells the forgotten stories of some of the most influential personal computer pioneers in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the late 1960s, big mainframe computers owned by large corporations and the government were seen as tools of control. The Hippie movement and the anti-Vietnam war protests served as a hotbed for a revolutionary idea: creating an affordable home computer to be used by ordinary people as a counterbalance to Big Brother. Well, the rest is history, but what has happened to the early ideals and the initial ethos of free sharing? As one of the visionaries puts it: Its true that what I helped to create is todays establishment. Thats what I was trying to get rid of:the establishment.

Director/Writer: Jan Tenhaven
Featuring: Andy Hertzfeld, Lee Felsenstein, Daniel Kottke, John Markoff, Tim Paterson, Larry Tesler, Jennifer Warnes, Jim Warren
Cinematography: Sven Kiesche
Editor: Oliver Szyza
Producer: Stephan Lamby
World Sales: ZDF Enterprises

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