Troll Storm - Hartford Jewish Film Festival

In the peaceful ski-town of Whitefish, Montana, real-estate agent and soccer-mom Tanya Gersh wakes up to a nightmare: neo-Nazis launching a vicious online “troll storm” against her and her family. As death threats flood in and her community faces the return of American fascism, she fights back — filing a landmark First Amendment lawsuit that turns private harassment into public reckoning. Directed by Eunice Lau, Troll Storm draws chilling parallels between Germany’s rise to fascism and America’s online hate culture, weaving together intimate interviews, archival testimony and the very visible architecture of oppression. It’s a study of one woman’s courage and one community’s resolve — and a timely call to remember that silence is complicity.

Troll Storm has been celebrated as an Official Selection of the 2024 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and recipient of the NYWIFT Excellence in Directing Award.

Followed by a Reel Talk with Tanya Gersh, Subject of “Troll Storm”, Anti-hate activist and advocate against antisemitism and Stacey Sobel, Regional Director for Connecticut at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)