Development - ENGLISH, ITALIAN, FRENCH, SPANISH, DANISH, DUTCH - Documentary - 90 minutes
Can we turn off the news feed?
Year of production : 2018 Director(s) : Alberto PULIAFITO Writer(s) : Andrea COCCIA, Fulvio NEBBIA, Alberto PULIAFITO, Giorgio MONTANINI Cast : Peter LAUFER, Giorgio MONTANINI, Mark THOMPSON, Craig SILVERMAN, Maarten SCHENK, Jeff JARVIS Producer(s) : Fulvio NEBBIA (IK PRODUZIONI)
A man punches a kangaroo: animal rights activists get shocked. The sexy teacher. Trump tweets. Chemtrails, anti-vaccines, 30 EUR per immigrant, breaking news: the West is drowning in information overload. False newspapers with true hoaxes, real newspapers with fake news, readers who believe in everything and nothing at the same time. These are the consequences of a click-based model of business. Is everything lost? Maybe not. A group of diehard Italian journalists is trying to put back things in their right places. They are not alone. All over Europe, little groups of resilient journalists stand still. In England some of them started a competition to be the last ones to get on the news. Others are doing the same in the Netherlands, in Denmark, in France. They don’t know each other, but they are the vanguards who will rebuild on the ruins of the social networks society. Meanwhile, in Oregon, USA, old professor Peter Laufer cultivates the dream of slow news. He’s waiting for them to come. On the trail of this seemingly impossible mission, caught between newsrooms and freelance, Giorgio Montanini, irreverent and sense manufacturer stand-up comedian, narrates their stories.
Country(ies) : ITALY Financing plan : realised with the support of Piemonte Doc Film Fund - Fondo Regionale per il Documentarioin collaboration with Slow Newsin co-production with BabyDoc Filmwith the participation of Univeristy of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication - Internazionale