64 minutes / Color
Spanish; Catalan / English subtitles
Closed Captioned
Release: 2024
Copyright: 2024
After receiving a chilling threat from an anonymous hacker demanding $2,400 to stop the mass distribution of her intimate photos, Pati’s world crumbles and she turns to the authorities for help—only to find them powerless to act. As the hacker begins leaking her private images, Pati realizes she must take matters into her own hands. Through text messages, emails, and self-recorded videos, MY SEXTORTION DIARY reveals a gripping, first-hand account of online blackmail that has become disturbingly commonplace. Combining elements of thriller and mystery, Pati’s journey transcends helplessness as she fights back with honesty, humor, and resilience, crafting a powerful story of bodily autonomy, dignity, and the global fight against digital exploitation.
"A valuable education on the risks we run with our increasingly digital lives through an engaging and unique editing format."
Emily Duff Now Then, A Magazine for Sheffield
"A powerful and provocative real-life story, prescient in reflecting the unhappy reality facing those people who are forced to deal with the awful behaviour of unscrupulous hackers."
Mark Adams Business Doc Europe
"In a subversive spin on the contemporary obsession with true crime media and documentaries on the dark side of human nature, the Spanish filmmaker retakes control of her own story as a victim of sexual blackmail."
Olivia Popp Cineuropa
"My Sextortion Diary, the hour-long documentary that arose from Franquesa‘s harrowing experience with digital blackmail, is a queasily absorbing look at the uncanny and mundane ways technology shapes our daily lives."
Payton McCarty-Simas Film Inquiry
"A personal story about how [filmmaker Pati Franquesa] takes justice into her own hands after being threatened by a hacker with access to her personal photos."
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