‘Road House’ Star Daniela Melchior Joins ‘American Sweatshop’
deadline.comDaniela Melchior is set to join the ensemble of mystery thriller American Sweatshop, starring Lili Reinhart. Producers include Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana.
Uta Briesewitz will direct. In a device driven world, American Sweatshop will take a look at the toll of social media through the eyes of Daisy Moriarty (Reinhart), who while dealing with a chaotic personal life, finds herself sucked into the underbelly of the internet.
Moriarty, and a motley group of co-workers, toil in a cottage industry of agencies that evaluate harmful and offensive pictures and videos uploaded to social media.
With detached caution and a deranged sense of humor, they examine the millions of posts that get “flagged for review.” But one particularly violent video grabs hold of Daisy, luring her out of this office, away from the safety of her keyboard and into a dangerous world as she obsessively seeks to hold someone accountable.
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