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Hot Docs is pleased to open the 2013-14 season of its Doc Soup monthly screening series with the Toronto premiere of the Sundance hit Google and the World Brain(D: Ben Lewis, USA, 90 min.). Called “endlessly fascinating and engaging” by The Huffington Post, Google and the World Brain will screen on Wednesday, October 2, at 6:30 p.m. and 9:15 p.m., and on Thursday, October 3, at 6:45 p.m. at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor St. West. Filmmaker Ben Lewis will be in attendance to introduce the film and answer questions following the screenings.

Google and the World Brain is the story of the most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet, and the people who tried to stop it. In 1937 H.G. Wells predicted the creation of the “World Brain,” a giant global library containing all human knowledge that would lead to a new form of higher intelligence. Seventy years later the realization of that dream was underway, as Google scanned millions of books for its Google Books website. But over half those books were still in copyright, and authors across the world launched a campaign to stop them, climaxing in a New York courtroom in 2011.

Single tickets for Google and the World Brain are $15 and can be purchased in advance online at www.hotdocs.ca or in person at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema box office. In the event advance tickets sell out, a limited number of tickets may be available at the door on the night of the screening. Select subscription packages for Toronto’s Doc Soup are still available for purchase. Subscriptions and Student 6-Packs can be purchased online at www.hotdocs.ca, in person that the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema box office, or by phone at 416-637-5150.

Upcoming screening dates for Toronto’s Doc Soup are November 6 and 7, December 4 and 5, January 8 and 9, February 5 and 6, March 5 and 6 and April 2 and 3. Doc Soup titles are announced at least one month prior to their screenings and, whenever possible, guest directors are in attendance.

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