Angry Alan by Penelope Skinner

Starring Cody Porter

“Because for the first time in a really long time I feel like someone is speaking to me in a language which I completely understand and for the first time in a really really long time I feel like someone is saying something which makes me feel, like, good about myself.”

Meet Roger, third assistant manager at a Safeway grocery store and utterly miserable at how his life is turning out. He is frustrated, and long gone are the days of Roger being a hot shot employee high up the pecking order at AT&T. With his life at crisis point, Roger is close to bursting. But when he stumbles upon Angry Alan – an online activist- he finally feels someone is speaking his language….

We are in an age where we are constantly reminded on the news of the online recruitment drive by terror groups and the devastating role social media plays in warping a person’s view from the mundane to the extreme. Angry Alan is a scathing and ferocious satirical look at online radicalization, and a fierce, clear warning of what is going on. And it is utterly terrifying.