Screening of “Can’t Look Away” documentary followed by panel discussion | Tuesday, Dec 2, 7 p.m. | Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets: FREE for all. Donations appreciated.
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VIDEO
Join us for a special screening of CAN’T LOOK AWAY — a gripping and urgent documentary exposing the dark side of social media and its devastating impact on young users.
Can’t Look Away is a gripping documentary that exposes the dark side of social media and its devastating impact on young people. Directors Matthew O’Neill and Perri Peltz take viewers inside the high-stakes legal battle to hold tech companies accountable for the harm caused by their negligence and dangerous algorithms. Based on investigative reporting by Bloomberg News’ Olivia Carville, the film follows the Social Media Victims Law Center fighting for justice for families whose children suffered tragic consequences linked to social media use. As families seek justice, Can’t Look Away underscored the urgent need for industry reform and serves as both a wake-up call about the dangers of social media– and a call to action to protect future generations.
Filmmaker Bios
Matthew O’Neill is an Emmy® Award winning and Academy Award® nominated documentary filmmaker and journalist. He most recently directed Surveilled for HBO and created the Emmy® winning HBO documentary news series AXIOS on HBO with Perri Peltz. Matthew and Perri also directed the 2019 HBO documentary Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America. Matthew has been making non-fiction films with Downtown Community Television Center, Inc, (DCTV) in NYC’s Chinatown for the last 25 years. His earlier projects for HBO, ESPN, Disney+, Netflix and FRONTLINE have focused on everything from the Egyptian Revolution to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American criminal justice system, and the School of American Ballet. His filmmaking has taken him to more than 50 different countries for films including Baghdad ER, In Tahrir Square and Wartorn. He has received two Academy Award nominations for Redemption and China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province and has been recognized with two Columbia DuPont Awards, a Peabody Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, five Emmy Awards and a Director’s Guild Award nomination.
Perri Peltz is an Emmy® award winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, and public health advocate. Most recently, Perri directed Surveilled for HBO and created the Emmy® winning documentary news series AXIOS on HBO with Matthew O’Neill. Perri and Matthew also directed and produced the 2019
There will be a panel discussion after the screening hosted by Tom Walker from WSLR’s Peace & Justice Report