Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death, & Technology (2011

2011 in film

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) is a documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 directed by Tiffany Shlain

Tiffany Shlain

Tiffany Shlain is an American filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards. Recognized by Newsweek as "one of the women shaping the 21st century."-Bio:...

 about world interconnection and about her father Leonard Shlain

Leonard Shlain

Leonard Shlain was an American surgeon and writer; he authored three books.Dr. Shlain was Chairman of Laparoscopic surgery at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and was an Associate Professor of Surgery at UCSF.He was a speaker at such venues as the Smithsonian, Harvard...

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Release dates

The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...

 in January 2011, and opened theatrically in San Francisco, Marin, and Berkeley, California on September 16, 2011 in limited release.

Reception

"Connected has been one of the truly thrilling experiences of Sundance 2011, and easily the best documentary in competition. Director Tiffany Shlain delivered what was, improbably, both the most thought-provoking and the most personally emotional documentary of the whole festival. It will change your thinking, and what more can a documentary do?"
-Michael Dunaway, Paste Magazine

"Indeed, Shlain’s film does go wide — it’s like a rubber band stretching in multiple directions while not breaking. Examining the ways in which technology can productively unite our global citizenry, Connected details nothing less than the history of consciousness and its arrival within today’s always-on, hyper-wired mind." Scott Macaulay, Filmmaker Magazine

Filmmaker Magazine

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"A highly energized romp through a myriad of ideas about where the human race is headed." James Greenberg, The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter

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"The excerpts (from Connected) shown were not just beautiful but deeply resonant, and it was hard not to be swept along by the elegance and optimism on the screen." David Shaywitz, Forbes Magazine.