Coded Bias - Best of Fest, Science on Screen

RUNTIME: 90 Minutes

 

Meet Joy Buolamwini, your new favorite superhero. Shalini Kantayya's sobering and gripping documentary plays like an episode of "Black Mirror" as we meet Buolamwini, an irrepressible "poet of code" who, while working at MIT, discovers deep inaccuracies in facial recognition technology when it encounters dark-skinned or female faces. She then sets out to do something about it, forming the "Algorithmic Justice League" to combat inequities in both who codes and how technology ought to be regulated.


Share

About Milwaukee Film

Milwaukee Film is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to entertaining, educating, and engaging our community through cinematic experiences. We operate the magnificent Oriental Theatre, a historic cinema palace committed to high-quality and accessible film and education programming. Since 2009, the annual Milwaukee Film Festival has brought together film fans and filmmakers to celebrate the power of cinema. Our education programs and Cultures & Communities platform provide avenues toward making our community a more empathetic and equitable place for everyone to live.

Learn More