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"David has been with me every step
of the way with Eloise says Nelson,
who went to Hillel Day School and the
University of Michigan. The two met
at Camp Walden.
"I met Sanford when I was 12:'
says Weintraub, 26, single and a
Birmingham resident. "I majored in
business management at Michigan
State University and planned to go to
California after graduation to look into
the film business.
"I had summer internships at the
Gersh Agency and International
Creative Management in California,
working as an assistant to talent
agents.
"After I learned about Sanford's fam-
ily and their business, I reached out to
him. I ended up working in operations
at the studio, and every day, we talked
about possible ideas:"
When the Eloise idea surfaced, they
began putting in long days to bring it
into development.
"With this film, I hope audiences
see the importance of a family rec-
ognizing a problem and dealing with
it:' says Weintraub, who belongs to
Temple Israel and has gone on a teen
mission to Israel. "Although we're
making a scary movie, I want people
to enjoy it.
"I'm very proud of what we're doing.
It's taken a lot of persistence, and I'm
lucky to be a part of what Sanford and
his father are doing."
While plans include giving the film
a presence at the Toronto International
Film Festival as arrangements are
With this
film, I hope
audiences
see the
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importance
of a family
recognizing a problem
and dealing with it."
and, within a few years, had earned
the respect of established Internet
developers. By his late teens, he had
co-developed and sold the popu-
lar online forum and community
Reddit.
"That [2006] sale to [publish-
ing conglomerate] Conde Nast
makes him a very rich 19-year-old:'
Knappenberger explained. "And then
he takes this turn to social justice
and turns his back on the Silicon
Valley start-up culture that he saw, it
seems to me, as a machine for mak-
ing money."
Aaron's growing activism led to
efforts to increase the free online
availability of court records and
medical and scientific research. For
the latter project, he downloaded
an enormous number of articles
through MIT's network from the
academic database JSTOR with the
intention of spotlighting the private,
for-profit control of publicly funded
and created information.
Although the U.S. Attorney con-
ceded that Swartz had no plans to
profit from the mass download, he
resolved to send a message and filed
charges of wire fraud, computer
fraud, theft of information from a
computer and recklessly damaging a
computer.
And so began Swartz's two-year
nightmare.
"He was certainly willing to
put himself on the line:' says
Knappenberger, whose previous
films include We Are Legion: The
Story of the Hacktivists. "He was will-
ing to kick up a little dust.
"I feel like I have a perspective on
this having met so many hackers and
activists and seen so many approach-
es. In the sense of wanting to change
the world, it seemed to me he was
pretty comfortably within the bound-
aries of the law, all things considered.
So it's particularly bizarre they would
go after him for two years"
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that reach beyond the make-believe
and into reality.
"I'm looking to use this film as a
platform to do something large in
raising awareness of mental illness
on a global level:' says Nelson, active
with Congregation Shaarey Zedek
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Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
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