Agency:.Produced by Urbania in co-production with The National Film Board of Canada.

Director, Mathieu Fournier ; writer, Mathieu Fournier, Jonathan Trudel ; research, Mathieu Fournier, Jean-Michel Berthiaume, Jonathan Trudel ; content consultant, Ghyslain Raza ; director of photography, Maxime Pilon-Lalande ; cameraman, Alexandre Fréchette, Marc Warden ; location sound, Sylvain Vary, Stéfane Kirouac ; editor, Carmen Mélanie Pépin ; research - archives, Karine Perron ; art director, Marc-Antoine Jacques, Mathieu Lalumière ; sound design, Sylvain Bellemare, Luc Raymond, Stan Sakell ; re-recording, Isabelle Lussier ; producer, Annie Bourdeau, Pierre-Mathieu Fortin ; executive producer, Nathalie Cloutier, Raphaëlle Huysmans, Philippe Lamarre.

Participation, Ghyslain Raza, Andy Baio, Jean-Michel Berthiaume, Christian Bouchard, Amanda Brennan, Nina Duque, Kate Eichhorn, Katharina Niemeyer, Kathleen Rouillard, Jonathan Trudel, François Vigeant, Alys Angers, Charlyn Bergeron, Meagan Boisclair, Olivier Gélinas, Elie Grégoire, Édouard Labbé, Florence Lamothe, Jayden Roy.

Recorded 2022.

Ghyslain Raza was 15 years old in 2003, when his two minutes of fame would make him "patient zero" of web virality. He'd filmed himself letting it all hang out in a fixed-shot video. An amateur video. Overnight, it was made public by other students and downloaded millions of times - long before social media came onto the scene. Suddenly, "sharing" became synonymous with meanness, intimidation, and a mob mentality. Unwittingly, Raza became the "Star Wars Kid." Now, South Park and Family Guy were making references to the teen from Trois-Rivières behind the most famous meme in history. Over the next two decades, Ghyslain built - or, rather, rebuilt - his life away from the camera. Today, he is a man with a keen emotional intelligence, and a doctoral student in law. The world has changed since 2003, largely thanks to the rise of social media, the commercialization of personal data, and the relentless memory of the web, which could come back to haunt us at any time. It's a potent fear, and one that leads to questions on the right to control one's own image, and, above all, the right to be forgotten. Directed by Mathieu Fournier and shot in Trois-Rivières, New York and Portland this intimate documentary tells the story of the first viral phenomenon of the digital age. In the film, Ghyslain Raza breaks his silence, reflecting publicly for the first time on his story in conversation with other participants. Through his story, we explore our own shared experience, living in an online world hungry for content and ruled by the famous sentiment expressed in the John Ford film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." It's a line which begs the response, "Yes, but at what price?".

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Best Editing: Public Affairs, Documentary Program, 2022

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).