Beyond Gamergate: a conversation with GTFO director Shannon Sun-Higginson
In 2012, a friend sent filmmaker Shannon Sun-Higginson a hard-to-watch video of fighting game player Miranda “SuperYan” Pakozdi being sexually harassed by her own coach on the Capcom reality show Cross Assault. Not a gamer herself, Sun-Higginson started doing research and began work on a documentary about the larger problem of video games and harassment. Speaking to journalists, developers, and players, she put together GTFO, an in-depth look at some of the worst parts of recent gaming history — from sexist trash-talking to the backlash against critic Anita Sarkeesian — and the attempts to make things better.
The film, which premiered this week at SXSW, couldn’t be more timely. It’s coming seven months after the start of “Gamergate,”…
Source:: The Verge
