Troll Storm (2024)
83 min
What are the limits of free speech? Troll Storm is the story of a Jewish woman in Montana, Tanya Gersh, who was the victim of an unrelenting social media campaign of antisemitism and her decision to fight back in court. “The second I decided to fight, I started to heal,” she says in this powerful film. And although the crux of this story takes place several years ago, the new swarm of antisemitism currently crossing our country makes this story feel extremely relevant. Gersh uses interviews with a holocaust survivor as a brutal reminder of where we could end up again if this culture of hate is not faced by our country. In Accept the Call (WFF 2019) director Eunice Lau’s latest film, the parallel between Europe before the rise of the Nazi party and what happened to Gersh is frightening. – Sabina Barach
- Release date
- October 17, 2024
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Tanya Gersh as Self - Target of Troll Storm
- Lloyd Rosenstein as Self - Tanya Gersh's Dad
- Stephen Jacobs as Self - Holocaust Survivor
- Samantha Francine as Self - Whitefish Resident
- Ina Albert as Self - Community Organizer
- David Dinielli as Self - Attorney
- Susan Bro as Self - Heather Heyer's Mother
Crew
- Andrew Anglin · Archive footage
- Richard Cohen · Archive footage
- Heather Heyer · Archive footage
- Eunice Lau · Director
- Yasu Inoue · Writer
- Eunice Lau · Writer
- Zachary Kerschberg · Producer
- Eunice Lau · Producer
- Brooke Swaney · Producer
- Antoine Katz · Composer
- Aman Khosla · Composer
- Hiroo Takaoka · Cinematographer
- Yasu Inoue · Editor