Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology

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Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
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Directed by Tiffany Shlain
Written byTiffany Shlain
Carlton Evans
Sawyer Steele
Ken Goldberg
Produced byTiffany Shlain
Carlton Evans
Narrated by Peter Coyote
Edited byDalan McNabola
Tiffany Shlain
Sawyer Steele
Music by Gunnard Doboze
Distributed byPaladin Films (US)
ro*co films (outside US)
Release date
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death, & Technology is an autobiographical documentary film directed by Tiffany Shlain, dedicated to her father. [1] The film depicts a year in which Tiffany Shlain has a high-risk pregnancy and her father, Leonard Shlain, has brain cancer. It uses a mix of animation, archival footage, and home movies, and has themes of connection between people and the world. [2]

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The production of the film took four years, and is Shlain's eighth film. Leonard Shlain died in 2009 and did not see the finished film. [3]

Release

The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011, [4] and opened theatrically in 11 cities including San Francisco, [5] Marin, Berkeley, Monterey, Seattle, Denver, Portland, [6] LA [7] and New York [8] in the fall of 2011 in a theatrical tour. In 2012 Connected was selected by the U.S. State Department to tour with The American Film Showcase to represent America. [9] With the American Film Showcase, the film was sent to embassies around the world [10] and Tiffany Shlain traveled to South Africa [11] and Israel to screen the film and teach filmmaking workshops. In Tiffany Shlain's AOL Original series, The Future Starts Here there is an episode in Season 2 called Punk Rock Diplomacy depicting about her tour with the American Film Showcase. [12]

Reception

Critical reception has been mixed. The film received 36% positive reviews on the aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. [13]

Awards and festivals

References

  1. ↑ "Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology". IMDb . Retrieved 7 Nov 2011.
  2. ↑ "Synopsis" Archived 2011-01-27 at the Wayback Machine connectedthefilm.com, accessed February 14, 2012
  3. ↑ Macaulay, Scott (16 October 2011). "Director Tiffany Shlain on Connected - Filmmaker Magazine".
  4. ↑ "The 10 Best Films From Sundance 2011". pastemagazine.com. 2 February 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  5. ↑ Guadan, Deborah (September 15, 2011). "Movies opening this week, Sept. 15". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
  6. ↑ "Tiffany Shlain's Connected, opening this weekend / Boing Boing". boingboing.net. 14 September 2011.
  7. ↑ Los Angeles Times (4 September 2011). "Fall Sneaks list". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  8. ↑ Kehr, Dave (September 16, 2011). "October Release Schedule". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
  9. ↑ "Local Filmmaker to Become a US Film Ambassador - The Bay Citizen". The Bay Citizen. Archived from the original on 24 January 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  10. ↑ "AFS 2012 – American Film Showcase". usc.edu. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  11. ↑ "American Film Showcase: 'Connected' in Cape Town". International Documentary Association. 2 October 2012. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  12. ↑ "Punk Rock Diplomacy: What Is It And What Can It Do For The World?". The Huffington Post. 31 October 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  13. ↑ "Connected". Rotten Tomatoes . Fandango . Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  14. ↑ "2012 (I) Winners". thelamovieawards.com. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
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