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2016 Canadian film
Black Code
Directed byNicholas de Pencier
Produced byNicholas de Pencier
Issa Zaroui
Edited byEric Pedicelli
Music byPhilip Strong
Production
company
Mercury Films
Distributed byMongrel Media
Release date
  • September 13, 2016 (2016-09-13) (TIFF)
Running time75 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Black Code is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Nicholas de Pencier and released in 2016. Based on Ronald Deibert's book Black Code: Surveillance, Privacy, and the Dark Side of the Internet, the film explores the ways in which contemporary technology has facilitated an increasingly sophisticated surveillance infrastructure.

The film premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.

The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Editing in a Documentary (Eric Pedicelli) at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017.

References

  1. "Big Brother is browsing". The Globe and Mail, April 13, 2017.
  2. "Black Code looks at big data and Big Brother". Now, April 12, 2017.
  3. "TIFF 2016 announces its Canadian lineup, including films from Xavier Dolan, Deepa Mehta, Bruce McDonald". National Post, August 3, 2016.
  4. "2017 Canadian Screen Awards Nominees Revealed". ET Canada, January 17, 2017.

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