Feeling deeply grateful to premiere Love Apptually in a packed 650-person cinema.
Grateful for such an engaged audience—reminding me how personal and emotional the questions in this film are for so many.
The film asks: who designs these systems, what do they optimize for, and at what cost to our humanity?
Ultimately, @loveapptually is an invitation—to pause, to see clearly, and to choose more consciously how we connect.
Thank you @hotdocs_ for making this world premiere so memorable.
Photos w/ crew @acevedoreport@dakoitpictures@infuzemusic@minasmontage@hotdocs_ coming soon. Special thanks to my speaking agents @thelavinagency and @martina_dospina , Italian style queen.
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Director Shalini Kantayya on Love Apptually 💔📱
From the world of dating apps, algorithms, and digital desire, Kantayya explores how technology is reshaping how we connect, and why we might be losing something deeply human in the process.
“I think these apps are optimized for loneliness… they keep us swiping.”
In conversation about Love Apptually at the World Premiere at Hot Docs Festival 2026, she reflects on intimacy in the age of algorithms, the limits of “perfect” systems, and what it means to find our humanness again.
🎥 Filmmaking & editing: @mikejeffwong
Since the advent of Tinder in 2012, human courtship is almost unrecognizable.
For most of human history, love was found through community networks and chance encounters. In just a few decades, dating moved online—to websites to swipe-based apps powered by algorithms and engagement metrics.
An outtake from Love Apptually sets the stage for how Big Tech came to control the systems shaping the most intimate longings of the human heart.
World Premiere tomorrow spotlighted in Hot Docs Big Ideas. Saturday, April 25th at 6pm, Ted Rogers Cinema, Toronto.
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On Valentine’s Day, millions will swipe in search of love.
Love Apptually, explores how big tech is quietly pulling the strings of the human heart.
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