AUSTIN, Texas — A veteran cinematographer and tv director, Uta Briesewitz makes her characteristic directing debut with “American Sweatshop,” which is having its world premiere as a part of the 2025 SXSW Movie and TV Pageant. Lili Reinhart stars as a younger girl who will get a job as content material moderator at a social media web site. As she struggles to detach from the violent and disturbing imagery she is inundated with on daily basis, she turns into obsessive about discovering out the reality behind one notably graphic video.
Briesewitz and Reinhart stopped by the L.A. Occasions studio in Austin, Texas, to speak in regards to the film. Reinhardt spoke about how she has begun to rethink her personal on-line habits.
“I think I have wanted to be online less, more so than ever in my life, in the last year,” Reinhart mentioned. “Not even because of this film. I think just because of what the internet is right now as it stands. It’s not good, and you see a lot of hate and fear and I don’t want to be a part of it.
Reinhart added, “And so I’ve tried to almost be my own little content moderator, in a sense, on my own social platforms, knowing that what I engage with, I’ll get more of. So just being conscious online with what I interact with, knowing that if I keep it positive, keep it funny, keep it light, that’s what I’ll get back.”
