A film by Marjolaine Grappe

The Only Game in Town

A NEW BATTLEFIELD. A NEW WAY TO FIGHT. A NEW WAY TO FEEL.

Documentary · 90 min · 4K · In Post Production

The Film

Elfo, an Army recruiter, drives a military gaming truck across America, meeting kids where they already live — online, behind screens, inside games. Jerome and Brentyn are watching from their bedrooms. James, a former drone pilot who can no longer leave his house, retreats into those same virtual spaces to confront the moral weight of a war fought thousands of miles away. As AI threatens to automate the act of killing, the greatest casualty may be our humanity itself.

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Our Team

Marjolaine Grappe

Director & Producer. Award-winning investigative journalist, MIT Open Documentary Lab Fellow. Laureate of the Albert Londres Prize — France's highest journalism honor.

Amanda Pike

Producer. Emmy, duPont & Peabody winner. Director of Film and TV at the Center for Investigative Reporting — Victim/Suspect (Netflix, Sundance), The Grab (Magnolia, TIFF), Oscar-nominated Heroin(e).

Alexandra Codina

Producer. Emmy-nominated filmmaker — Monica & David (HBO, Tribeca Jury Award), Paper Children (YouTube Originals, Sundance Knight Fellow).

Viridiana Lieberman

Supervising Editor. Critics Choice Award winner for Best Editing (The Perfect Neighbor) — the first documentary editor nominated in the main Critics Choice Awards alongside fiction.

Pablo Proenza

Editor. Natchez (Tribeca Best Documentary Award) and Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 11/9, Capitalism: A Love Story, Where to Invade Next.

Joe Hunting

VR Producer & Cinematographer. Director of We Met in Virtual Reality (HBO, Sundance) — the first vérité documentary filmed entirely in VRChat.

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