One of the big hits out of Sundance this year was Catfish. It follows Yaniv “Nev” Schulman, a New York photographer, and his correspondence with an eight-year-old Michigan girl named Abby; a young artist who paints one of Nev’s photos and sends him one of her prints. As their relationship develops Nev is introduced to a host of family and friends of young Abby — and a network of acquaintances via the social networking site, Facebook.  

Whether Catfish is the documentary it claims to be, or really a fiction story, as it's now accused of being, the film is entertaining and it looks like it was fun to make it. Three handsome young men with a camera on a Facebook journey leads to a big reveal at the end. Social networks are now the source of the start for most real relationships, as between Nev and Abby's older sister, Megan, who he photoshops alongside photos of himself to 'test' their compatibility (see below). Nev's brother along with his film-making partner document the entire story from Nev's end of the make-believe, but possibly real, online fairy-tale. Catfish has generated an impressive buzz since its premiere at Sundance so here at Don’t Panic we caught up with the main protagonist and the star of the film, Nev, to find out first hand what the hype is all about.