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'Face of Anonymous' director explores the mysterious world of hacktivist Commander X by David Friend, The Canadian Press Posted Apr 26, 2021 4:00 am EDT Last Updated Apr 26, 2021 at 4:14 am EDT TORONTO — Canadian filmmaker Gary Lang says he hopes his documentary about a member of the “hacktivist” group Anonymous reminds viewers of their own power to effect change. The Toronto-based writer and director says that while his film “The Face of Anonymous” focuses on one member of the shadowy internet organization, it’s also a testament to a larger cultural shift led by Anonymous’ teac...

Christopher Doyon, known online as Anonymous hacktivist Commander X, is the subject of "The Face of Anonymous," which premieres at the Hot Docs film festival on Thursday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Storyline Entertainment MANDATORY CREDIT TORONTO – Canadian filmmaker Gary Lang says he hopes his documentary about a member of the “hacktivist” group Anonymous reminds viewers of their own power to effect change. The Toronto-based writer and director says that while his film “The Face of Anonymous” focuses on one member of the shadowy internet organization, it’s also a testament to a larg...

David Friend Christopher Doyon, known online as Anonymous hacktivist Commander X, is the subject of "The Face of Anonymous," which premieres at the Hot Docs film festival on Thursday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Storyline Entertainment MANDATORY CREDIT April 26, 2021 - 1:00 AM TORONTO - Canadian filmmaker Gary Lang says he hopes his documentary about a member of the "hacktivist" group Anonymous reminds viewers of their own power to effect change. The Toronto-based writer and director says that while his film "The Face of Anonymous" focuses on one member of the shadowy in...

April 26, 2021 - 2:10 AM In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Apr. 26 ... What we are watching in Canada ... OTTAWA -- The federal government says it expects Canada to receive around 1.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine this week, including its very first shipment of shots from Johnson & Johnson. The government says the country will receive about 300,000 of the single-dose jabs in the coming days, in addition to more than 1 million Pfizer-BioNTech shots and aro...

"I called my producer saying, 'This could be a flat-out catfish,'" Lang, a Toronto-based documentarian, recalled in a recent interview. "He’s always been homeless, he has no identity, he’s never had a passport, never paid taxes. Literally, he is ‘anonymous’ …. It would be not implausible for somebody to read about these things and make up a personal narrative." And so, Lang began sifting through Doyon's connections in hopes of separating fact from fiction. The winding tale is captured in the TVO Original film "The Face of Anonymous," which makes its world premiere Thursday at a virt...