Description
Synopsis:
Three actresses, three children’s rooms, 10 days and 2,458 sexual predators. An experiment that shines an urgent light on the taboo subject of the abuse of children on the internet. Three over-18 actresses with very young appearances are tasked with pretending they are 12 on fake social network profiles. They chat and Skype with men of all ages who have searched for and contacted them online. The vast majority of these men demand video sex and send photos of their penises or links to porn. Some even attempt blackmail. The documentary delivers the gripping drama of the protagonists playing “12-year-oldgirls” from casting to face to face meetings with predators (watched by security and six hidden cameras). Predatory tactics are gradually turned against perpetrators and hunters become the hunted.
About the directors:
Barbora Chalupová is a director from the emerging young generation. Her work began with the student film Thank You, Melonik (2014), which was shortlisted for a Magnesia Award for best student film. Her next work, Arms Ready (2016), was nominated for the Pavel Koutecký Prize and was in competition at the One World festival and Jihlava IDFF. That was followed by A Theory of Equality (2017), which was presented in the Czech Journal series. Her experimental picture On the Edge (2018) was shortlisted for best student film at the Magnesia Awards. Last year Chalupová brought out the authorial documentary Real(e)state (2019); it premiered at the One World Film Festival.
Vít Klusák is a graduate of the Department of Documentary Film at FAMU, where he has been lecturing at the film school since 2006. Klusák and Filip Remunda set up Hypermarket Film. Their documentary comedy Czech Dream (2004) won prizes at a number of domestic and international festivals and was broadcast by 24 foreign TV stations. The pair’s Czech Peace (2010) received its world premiere at Michael Moore’s festival in Traverse City. Klusák’s feature-length absurd documentary All for the Good of the World and Nosovice (2011) picked up the Film Critics’ and Theoreticians’ Prize for best documentary film (Czech Lion). His The Good Driver Smetana (2013) was a personal project.