FIRST WE CREATE THE TECHNOLOGY
THEN IT RECREATES US
iHUMAN is a political thriller about artificial intelligence, power and social control. With unparalleled access to the inside of the booming AI industry, this film shows how the most powerful and far-reaching technology of our time is changing our lives, our society and our future.
DIRECTOR Tonje Hessen Schei
PRODUCER Jonathan Borge Lie
IMPACT PRODUCER Danielle Turkov Wilson
OUTREACH PRODUCER Sabrina Buckwalter
CINEMATOGRAPHER Henrik Bohn Ibsen
EDITOR Torkel Gjørv
VFX ARTIST Theodore Groneboom, Rebel Unit
TRAILER
PAST EVENTS
Qualified for Best Documentary OSCAR® in 2020
Edward Snowden headlined iHUMAN World Premiere at IDFA
HotDocs Fest screening and panel with deep fakes pioneer Hao Li and Intercept reporter Lee Fang
UN Forum on Business and Human Rights
OECD flagship panel with Paul Nemitz, EU Commission, Julie Brill, Microsoft and Jack Clark, OpenAI
IN THE CLASSROOM
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COMING SOON: Find academic readings to support discussions around AI here
FOR MEDIA
iHUMAN Director Tonje Hessen Schei
Tonje Hessen Schei is an award-winning Norwegian director who has worked in independent documentaries since 1996. Her films mainly focus on human rights, power structures in society and the changing relationship between man and machine.
Tonje is the director of iHUMAN (2019), Drone (2014), Play Again (2010) and Independent Intervention (2005). Her films have received international awards including Most Valuable Documentary of the Year at Cinema for Peace, the Golden Nymph, and the Norwegian equivalents for Oscar and Emmy for Best Documentary. Tonje’s films have screened at the UN and EU, Netflix, major film festivals worldwide, and are used in educational systems globally. In 2020 iHuman qualified for the Oscar run.
Tonje has been featured in national and international media, including the BBC, CNN, The Guardian, Vice, Wired, Al Jazeera, Democracy Now! and many more.
Tonje is the recipient of The Chicken and Egg Award 2020. She is a co-founder and director at UpNorth Film.
For interview requests:
Sabrina Buckwalter
sabrina@upnorthfilm.no | (929) 260-3254
TAKE ACTION
how AI affects your daily life
33% = people who think they use AI technology…
77% = actual number of people using it (source: PEGA)
what does it mean to be human?
In 10 years time, intelligent robots could make up more than 30% of the global workforce (source: McKinsey Global Institute)
AI industry to hit $275B market value
By 2027, the global AI market is expected to be worth over $275 billion (source: Fortune Business Insights, 2020). Largely unregulated private tech firms using AI are being allowed to:
set the limits of our freedom
determine the health of our democracy, and
decide vital questions of social justice.
