
Reconnecting: A Digital Divide
Nine community access sites scattered across the Halifax region serve as the film's entry points into the question of who gets left out when a society moves online. Staff and visitors at these C@P centers describe what a public terminal and a few hours of free internet time actually mean for someone job-hunting, doing homework, or filing paperwork that has moved entirely to the web. The film moves site to site rather than following one narrative thread, letting each location's users explain in their own words what changes when the access point closes or the funding shifts. It treats the digital divide as a practical problem of hours, hardware, and location rather than an abstract statistic, and stays close to the people running and using these rooms instead of bringing in outside experts. The result is a plain record of what community internet access looked like in one Canadian region, told by the people who kept the terminals running and the people who lined up to use them.