My Sextortion Diary (Diario de Mi Sextorsión)

Pati’s world is turned upside down when her laptop is stolen and she becomes the target of an anonymous blackmailer, pushing Pati to her limits. Faced with the ineffectiveness of the legal forces, she understands she must find her way out herself. She engages in a process to regain control over her privacy, using the very ways used against her to threaten her, in this diary exposing the vulnerability of intimacy online.

Director Patricia Franquesa’s harrowing encounter with digital blackmail unfolds as a real-time diary, cleverly employing the same media used against her – emails, photos, and videos – to reclaim her narrative. An important and innovative meditation on the fragility of privacy in the digital age.

Moderator: Claire Schadek

Speakers: Jacques Federspiel (Bee Secure)