Documentary by the filmmakers behind « The Square » premiered at Sundance 2019
With “The Great Hack,” filmmakers Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim set out to make a film about the Sony hack, the breach of data and leaked emails from Sony Pictures that rocked Hollywood back in 2014. But as they further examined the role that data played in telling this story, their film deepened into something much greater — and much more sinister.
Noujaim and Amer were previously behind the Oscar-nominated documentary “The Square” about the Egyptian revolution in Tahrir Square in 2011. That film examined how posts on social media could shape a cultural revolution and community in the real world. So when the Sony hack threatened to cause an international conflict and when the subsequent efforts of Cambridge Analytica began to influence the 2016 election, they knew there was a deeper story to be told about technology.
