OPEN: Outlaws and Pioneers of the Electronic Frontier

(formerly “The Mouse That Roared”)

OPEN: Outlaws and Pioneers of the Electronic Frontier (formerly “The Mouse That Roared”) Trailer from OPEN, the documentary, on Vimeo.

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IMAGINE A NATION that offers a safe haven to whistleblowers risking their lives to stand up and speak the truth.

IMAGINE AN INTERNET that empowers “netizens,” rather than collecting data and spying on them.

Judith Ehrlich, Academy Award-nominated 
director of “The Most Dangerous Man in America, Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers,” is bringing a red hot story from a cool country.

OPEN: Outlaws and Pioneers of the Electronic Frontier (formerly The Mouse That Roared), based in Iceland, investigates one of the most pressing challenges in the world today —how do we extend the hard-won rights of democratic societies into the digital space where most of our communication now takes place?

Through our character-driven documentary featuring Birgitta Jonsdóttír – poet, Buddhist, activist, single mom, and elected member of the Icelandic Parliament –we explore the question, “is the Internet to become what WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange calls ‘the most significant surveillance machine that we have ever seen,’ or will it be a platform for innovation, creativity, community building and justice?”

Birgitta in NYC reading from the Bradley Manning Chat Logs on top of the Empire State Building: