Shawney Cohen & Mike Gallay | 28 mins | Canada

Tagged introduces us to the raging debate over the ubiquitous Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip, touted as a tool with invaluable medical applications by its supporters and denounced as the death knell for civil liberties by privacy advocates. This playfully smart short doc lets the audience decide: Is it “hip to be chipped,” as a proposed marketing slogan claimed, or could RFID implants accelerate a slide down the slippery slope from surveillance society to totalitarian nightmare?

SCREENING SCHEDULE
7:00 PM     Sat, Oct 16, 2010
IndieScreen

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Directors | Shawney Cohen and Mike Gallay
Production Agency | Gallay/Hartt Productions, National Film Board of Canada
Producers | Shawney Cohen, Mike Gallay, Lea Marin

DIRECTOR’S BIO
Shawney Cohen has a decade’s worth of experience as a 3D animator and visual effects director. Formerly of Mr. X, Cohen has worked on over a dozen major motion pictures including A History of Violence, Dawn of the Dead and Ice Princess. He now repurposes his rich directorial background to the fertile ground of documentary, joining Gallay/Hartt in 2006. Mike Gallay has worked as a writer, producer and director in Toronto and Los Angeles for the past decade, crafting work for EMI, Alliance Atlantis, ClearChannel, Reprise Records, Warner Bros., Dreamworks, Universal Canada, MTV, MLSE, Toronto Raptors (NBA), Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL), MTV, National Film Board of Canada and TVO. In 2004, Gallay became the driving force behind Gallay/Hartt Productions, forming the company with Hartt and Sussman.