In Benjamin Ree's documentary, Steen's parents learn about their son's rich social life as an avid 'World of Warcraft' gamer ...
Director Benjamin Ree cast disabled actors for his Oscar shortlisted documentary "The Remarkable Life of Ibelin" to portray ...
Mats Steen was a disabled Norwegian Gamer who suffered from a rare degenerative muscular disease called Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). A documentary about his life will soon be released on ...
World of Warcraft continues to pay tribute to Mats "Ibelin" Steen, the subject of the recent Netflix documentary The ...
When Mats Steen was a little boy, he loved a small ceramic fox. In his native Norway, a fox is a “reven.” His mother, Trude, says he carried everywhere. Back then, he could still walk on his own. He ...
World of Warcraft fans discover evidence of another heartfelt in-game tribute to a beloved player and his touching tale in ...
The Netflix documentary centers around Mats Steen, who had a rare disease which wasted his muscles until he could barely move his fingers. But after his death, his family discovered a rich online ...
For his film, Ree was able to draw from home videos of Mats Steen and from digital logs that tracked all of Mats’s interactions within the World of Warcraft environment. With help from an ...
In no particular order, I’m going to walk through the five that I enjoyed the most below. Mats Steen in “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin” on Netflix. Image source: Bjorg Engdahl Medieop ...
In Benjamin Ree's documentary, Steen's parents learn about their son's rich social life as an avid 'World of Warcraft' gamer after he dies of a degenerative neuromuscular disease. By Scott ...
The film tells the story of a young Norwegian man, Mats Steen, whose battle with muscular dystrophy makes it challenging for him participate and connect with others. Steen begins spending all his ...