With local film maker Bertie Brosnan acting as Associate Producer on this feature and with a official synopsis that reads: " From innocent meme culture to malicious propaganda, the avant-garde has moved online and they have an agenda. Emerging from deep within underground computer
programming culture, internet trolls are disenfranchised and using the click-bait obsessed mass media to propel their performance art into the mainstream. Whether mischievously entertaining the masses, influencing presidential elections, or manipulating journalists and corporations, trolls are either saving us or driving our culture off of a cliff. Prosecuted as a whistleblower by the Federal Government, Trolls Inc. follows the world’s most famous Internet troll, Andrew Auernheimer, and his merry band of provocateurs as they take on corporate America, the media, and political correctness." - Troll Inc was always going to be a documentary that would interest and spark debate.
The current climate of journalistic reporting and how the masses are fed their information is also central to theme of this compelling documentary.
To make Troll Inc., director George Russell fought and won a year-long federal lawsuit forcing the government to honor a Freedom of Information Act request it had originally denied. To get such unparralled access to such a nototorious figure in the world of online trolling was also a coup for the director as we hear the story largely from Auernheimer's point of view. The personality of the protaganist and his unquestioned views throughout the feature may be a bit much for some but isn't that the point of good film making - to spark debate and discussion. Troll Inc also serves to educate those that may be unfamiliar with the world of trolling and all it entails and is available to view at the links below.
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