JAPAN PRIZE 2016 Prize Winners
The Best Work in the Pre-school Category
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THE AMINA PROFILE
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National Film Board of Canada (NFB) |
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Country/Region |
Canada |
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Film |
(By David Squire)
The Amina Profile artfully and intelligently tells the real life story of internet hoax ‘Gay Girl in Damascus’, a fascinating and at times alarming story of online relationships, sexuality, politics and trust in the media. The film beautifully mixes documentary footage, imagined re-enactments and interviews with the willing contributions of those affected by the events, to take us on an intimate, challenging and thought provoking journey into issues of online identity and trust. It questions how we present ourselves online and how our personal and sexual relationships can play out in the digital age. It confronts our trust in digital media and journalism to tell us about our world. It makes us look again at complex political and social situations. By doing this, it offers a valuable aid to digital literacy for young adults, millennials and, in fact, anyone who uses the Internet. The JAPAN PRIZE jurors were left debating the rich layers of human experience the film makers so beautifully present to us.
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