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The Social Dilemma is a 2020 American docudrama film directed by Jeff Orlowski and written by Orlowski, Davis Coombe, and Vickie Curtis.The documentary covers the negative social effects of social media and is interspersed by a dramatized narrative surrounding a family of five who are increasingly affected by problematic social media use.
Vickie Curtis is an Emmy-winning filmmaker, writer, and story architect adapting true stories for the screen. The focus of her work involves elevating nonfiction film with the same strong characters and narrative arc that make great fiction so compelling. A theatre nerd at heart, she seeks stories that reveal the transformational and nourishing ...
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Vickie Curtis is a Filmmaker and Writer. She won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program for her work on The Social Dilemma. Her screen credits include writing the Emmy-winning Netflix Original films Chasing Coral (Sundance) and The Social Dilemma (Sundance), The Weight of Water (Banff), Adventure Not War (Tribeca), Classic (DFF), The Arctic (IMAX) and story architecture for Island Soldier (PBS,...
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- Vickie Curtis
Nov 16, 2020 · The Social Dilemma: Inside the provocative new Netflix film with writer Vickie Curtis ’07 The tech industry insiders who invented infinite scrolling, the Facebook Like button, and so many of the other elements that help make social media so addicting didn’t set out to radically alter the fabric of society.
Vickie Curtis: In Jan. 2018, the director, Jeff Orlowski, organized a group of folks to meet with [former Google employee] Tristan Harris, who features as sort of a protagonist in the film. A lot of Jeff’s friends were working for these companies in Silicon Valley, and more and more people were coming to him having left Twitter, Google and Facebook, saying, “I have regrets,” or “Things have taken a turn for the worse and I want out.”
Jan 27, 2020 · Surprisingly effective dramatic scenes (co-written by Vickie Curtis, Davis Coombe and Orlowski) featuring a family atomized by social media addiction break up the steady stream of truth bombs from ...
Past and Current Projects. Comparsa, Directors Vickie Curtis and Doug Anderson (in production) The Social Dilemma, Director Jeff Orlowski (Sundance, Netflix 2020) The Weight of Water, Director Michael Brown (BANFF Grand Prize Winner, 2018) Anbessa, Director Mo Scarpelli (Berlinale, Arte, AfriDocs, 2018) Chasing Coral, Director Jeff Orlowski ...
