Movie Night - Startup.com
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For our first ever movie event, we'll take you on an entertaining and educational journey through the life of a startup company during the so called dot-com boom. Startup.com is an interesting real-life documentary that cannot be missed for those of us in the high technology area of research, academa and industry! Directors Chris Hegedus (The War Room) and Jehane Noujaim couldn't have imagined the drama that awaited when they began documenting the creation of the pioneering e-commerce site govWorks.com. For over a year they followed the company, the brainchild of childhood-friends-turned-business-partners software geek and doting single dad Tom Herman, and ambitious young business-school-grad-turned-company-CEO Kaleil Isaza Tuzman. During the rise of the Internet investment frenzy and the subsequent crash of the dot-economy, the cameras remain keyed into the human dynamic: the lifestyle compromises, the personal sacrifices, and the clash of philosophies and personalities that ultimately tear boyhood buddies Tom and Kaleil...almost. Startup.com's portrait of the cutthroat nature of American business culture and the choices one makes (or doesn't) to succeed poses the one question most documentaries ignore: Is it worth it? --Sean Axmaker (Source: amazon.com) View the trailer on-line (100KBit/sec Windows Media) |
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There is no need to register for this event. Simply come to the lecture theatre at least 15 minutes before the scheduled screening time to reserve your place. The full details are as follows:
Where: Greenwood Theatre
Level 1 Electrical & Electronic Engineering Building
University of MelbourneWhen: Thursday 18th of December 2003 from 6-8pm Cost: Free
In case you are locked out of the building due to automatic access restrictions, there will be a Student Branch committee member waiting to let you in at the entrance to level 1 until 6.15pm at the latest.