Picture Character | 2020 Heartland International Film Festival

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"Picture Character" explores the complex, conflict-prone, and often hilarious world of the creators, lovers, and arbiters of emoji, our world’s newest pictorial language. How do you create a global language on the fly? This film charts the evolution of emojis, and investigates what they may reveal about our increasingly technological world.

In Arabic, English, Japanese, and Spanish with English subtitles.

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Festivals and Awards:

AFI Docs

ART Russia Festival

Design Film Festival

Durango Film Festival

Hawaii International Film Festival

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Melbourne International Film Festival

Sydney Film Festival

Taormina Film Fest

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WoodsHole Film Festival

Year
2019
Runtime
81 minutes
Language
English, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish
Country
U.S., Germany, Japan, Argentina, Austria, U.K., Scotland
Rating
Suitable for All Ages

Director
Ian Cheney, Martha Shane
Producer
Ian Cheney, Martha Shane, Jennifer 8. Lee
Executive Producer
Fred Benenson, Peter Friedland
Cast
Rayouf Alhumedhi, Florencia Coelho, Daniela Guini, Carmen Barlow, Francis Mason

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Picture Character

"Picture Character" explores the complex, conflict-prone, and often hilarious world of the creators, lovers, and arbiters of emoji, our world’s newest pictorial language.