POV Series: Web Junkie
Texas Spirit Theater
July 7, 2015 7:00pm - 8:30pm
The award-winning POV series presents an array of groundbreaking and distinctive perspectives on contemporary life as chronicled by some of America’s and Europe’s most visionary non-fiction filmmakers.
China is the first country to label “Internet addiction” a clinical disorder. With extraordinary intimacy, Web Junkie investigates a Beijing rehab center where Chinese teenagers are deprogrammed, focusing on three teens, their parents and the health professionals determined to help them kick their habit.
Official Selection of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
This screening is free and open to the public. This event is a collaboration with the award-winning documentary series POV (www.pbs.org/pov).
