As the first film to premiere simultaneously online and at a major international film festival, TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard debuted to great acclaim at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival. Like the three founders of The Pirate Bay, director Simon Klose challenges the conventions of copyright and file sharing held by the film industry.

While documenting the fight between Hollywood and file sharing proponents, Klose also explores how multimedia platforms can benefit documentary production and distribution through his company LinkLib. China-based new media platform DOCO, founded by Yang Le, is a new media documentary platform which probes similar issues within the local media ecology.

Simon Klose was born in Lund, Sweden in 1975. In 2013, Klose directed and co-produced TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard. Klose is now working on LinkLib.org, a second screen startup that lets filmmakers and film audiences connect their phones to annotated videos.

A producer of contemporary culture, Yang Le has worked at China’s CCTV for 14 years, primarily in movies, documentaries, and TV shows. He is the founder of the new media platform DOCO.

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