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Web Junkie: Filmmaker Interview
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Filmmaker Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia discuss the making of Web Junkie.
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Video description: Internet addiction has been declared a national health crisis in China, the first country in the world to classify this evolving diagnosis. Web Junkie follows the treatment of three Chinese teenagers, obsessive gamers whose preference for the virtual world over the real one is summed up in one jarring statement: "Reality is too fake."
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