#ChicagoGirl

2013 · MA15+ · Biography

From her childhood bedroom in a Chicago suburb, Ala’a, an American teenage girl, uses social media to coordinate the revolution in Syria. Armed with Facebook, Twitter, Skype and cameraphones, she helps her social network 'on the ground' in Syria brave snipers and shelling in the streets to show the world the human rights atrocities of a dictator.

Directed by: Joe Piscatella

Featuring: Ala'a Basatneh, Aous Al-Mubarak, Bassel Shehadeh, Mazhar 'Omar' Tayara, David Gorodyansky, Sascha Meinrath, Zeynep Tufekci, Kurt Andersen & Wael Ghonim

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