In the peaceful ski-town of Whitefish, Montana, real-estate agent and soccer-mom Tanya Gersh wakes up to a nightmare: neo-Nazis launching a vicious online “troll storm” against her and her family. As death threats flood in and her community faces the return of American fascism, she fights back — filing a landmark First Amendment lawsuit that turns private harassment into public reckoning.

Directed by Eunice Lau, the documentary draws chilling parallels between Germany’s rise to fascism and America’s online hate culture, weaving together intimate interviews, archival testimony, and the very visible architecture of oppression. It’s a study of one woman’s courage and one community’s resolve — and a timely call to remember that silence is complicity.

Now celebrated as an Official Selection of the 2024 Big Sky  Documentary  Film Festival — and recipient of the NYWIFT Excellence in Directing Award — Troll Storm resonates beyond its Montana setting, proving that even the smallest town can become the front line in the fight against hate.