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Central City Media have released a new poster and trailer for Sarah Pirozek’s auteur-driven, revenge noir thriller #Like, which will be available to rent and buy on all major digital platforms from 1st November.

On the first anniversary of her younger sister’s death Woodstock teen, Rosie, discovers the mysterious man who sexploited and bullied her sister to commit suicide back on-line trolling for new victims. After the authorities refuse to get involved she finds a darker side she never knew she had, as she takes justice into her own hands.

Writer/Director Sarah Pirozek says of the film:

#Like is an elevated genre, an unapoloegtically angry ‘Noir’. The story was written as the #Metoo movement began, foreshadowing the spirit calling up Rosie’s voracious chimera. She is a teen girl deep in grief. The psychological thriller nods, in turn, to Hitchcock, Fuller and Campion, echoing terrifying true stories...

Grieving the loss of her sister one year after her death, a young woman takes justice into her own hands when she tracks down the man who cyberbullied and sexploited her sibling in the new movie #Like. With the film now streaming on Tvod platforms via Giant Pictures, we caught up with writer/director Sarah Pirozek in our latest Q&a feature to discuss how she blended a thriller-noir story with timely social messages about real-life online issues such as online predation and cyberbullying.

Thanks for taking the time to catch up with us, Sarah, and congratulations on your new movie,​ #Like​! How and when did you first come up with the idea for this film?

Sarah Pirozek: Thank you so much—thrilled to chat. I had been thinking about making a movie dealing with online predation for a while, but I had to sit with how to do it.

I made a microbudget movie called #Like. Amazingly it is wrapped, posted and on the festival circuit, and it has receiving glowing reviews like this: “Writer/director Sarah Pirozek’s teenage noir #Like pulses with the energy of a ’70s thriller.” Discouraged by stats on Hollywood hiring and women directors — a 2015 DGA report reported that 84% of first-time scripted TV directors were white men — and inspired by the work of independent female filmmakers like Marielle Heller, Laurie Weltz and Anja Marquardt, I decided to stop waiting for permission to make my first feature. Instead of making a short-film calling card […]...

I made a microbudget movie called #Like. Amazingly it is wrapped, posted and on the festival circuit, and it has receiving glowing reviews like this: “Writer/director Sarah Pirozek’s teenage noir #Like pulses with the energy of a ’70s thriller.” Discouraged by stats on Hollywood hiring and women directors — a 2015 DGA report reported that 84% of first-time scripted TV directors were white men — and inspired by the work of independent female filmmakers like Marielle Heller, Laurie Weltz and Anja Marquardt, I decided to stop waiting for permission to make my first feature. Instead of making a short-film calling card […]...