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As the new school year begins, Netflix is making the documentary The Social Dilemma available for free on YouTube, through the end of September. After just a couple of days, it's recorded over 65,000 views, with one viewer commenting, “Literally one of the best and worthy documentaries I have ever watched in my…

Jeff Orlowski, director of the award-winning Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, used to be an avid social media user. Not anymore. Around 2017, he says, he started becoming alarmed about "manipulative design techniques" employed by social media companies, and with his documentary collaborators he set out to…

Of all the responses to his film The Social Dilemma, director Jeff Orlowski treasures one reaction above many. "[Author] George R.R. Martin tweeted that The Social Dilemma was the scariest movie he’s seen in 20 years," Orlowski tells Deadline. "That was one of my favorite little moments." The Netflix documentary has…

UPDATED with video: Filmmaker Jeff Orlowski has become known for his environmental documentaries Chasing Ice and Chasing Coral. But with The Social Dilemma he turns his attention to another issue with major implications for humanity: the damaging impact of social media. "I’ve always been curious about big systemic and…

Director Jeff Orlowski logged some serious miles for his latest documentary, Chasing Coral, about the threat facing the ocean's corals and what that portends for humankind. "I think the word ‘chasing’ in the title is very appropriate. We started off in Florida and the Caribbean and we were documenting everything…

UPDATED to June 5 exclusive with music video: Kristen Bell has been tapped to sing the closing tune in the Jeff Orlowski-directed Sundance documentary Chasing Coral, which will begin streaming July 14 on Netflix. The original song, “Tell Me How Long,” was composed by Dan Romer and Teddy Geiger and is described as a…

The inaugural Sundance Institute Discovery Impact Fellow for environmental filmmaking, Chasing Coral helmer Jeff Orlowski saw his last documentary, Chasing Ice, receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song, and screen for Congress, the White House and the UN. Chasing Coral, his "thematic sequel" to that…

With Discovery Channel rolling out a new environmental-themed series later this year, the Sundance Institute and cabler today named festival award wining Chasing Ice director Jeff Orlowski as the first recipient of the Sundance Institute Discovery Impact Fellowship. The new fellowship is given to a filmmaker who has…