Ava DuVernay: I was a huge fan of adam mckay an his work and the big short is, in my mind, it such a brilliant film that took a very, very complicated subject and made it very accessible. Originally we were thinking just about skits at the start. We wanted to have betty white explain algarithms,. That was another idea. But it was really like just being super creative and out of the box and explaining the things that an audience needs to understand. And i remember one day i was sitting on a plane, and i was just journalling and writing some ideas down until i realized all those little vignettes could be
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This week on Your Undivided Attention, we're going behind the curtain on The Social Dilemma — the Netflix documentary about the dark consequences of the social media business model, which featured the Center for Humane Technology. On the heels of the film's 1-year anniversary and winning of 2 Emmy Awards, we're talking with Exposure Labs' Director Jeff Orlowski-Yang and Producer Larissa Rhodes. What moved Jeff and Larissa to shift their focus from climate change to social media? How did the film transform countless lives, including ours and possibly yours? What might we do differently if we were producing the film today?
Join us as we explore the reverberations of The Social Dilemma — which we're still feeling the effects of over one year later.