Catfish

Synopsis: In this film, love and identity, reality and fiction become twisted across the lines of the Internet in the unravelling of a presumed innocent, Facebook relationship. Nev Schulman is a photographer who one day received a surprising e-mail message -- Abby, an eight-year-old girl in Michigan, had seen his picture in a newspaper and wanted permission to paint a portrait from it. Nev gave his OK, and when he was given a copy of the painting, he was struck by how good it was, assuming that the girl was either a genius or a fraud. Nev tried to contact Abby’s family, and somehow ended up in contact with Megan, Abby’s sexy 19-year-old sister. As Nev fell into an increasingly complicated on-line relationship with Megan, he decided it was time to meet her in person, but when he travelled to Michigan and tracked her down, Nev learned that Abby and Megan’s family were not at all what he expected them to be. Ariel Schulman, Nev’s brother, began filming his brother’s adventures from his first contact with Abby, and in CATFISH he and Henry Joost tell this strange story from beginning to end.
Language: English
Country: United States
Year of release: 2011
Year of production: 2010
Subjects: Social Studies; Media studies
Keywords: identity; Internet; social networking

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