China's internet rehabs highlighted by Web Junkie documentary China's Web Junkie, a new documentary that looks into one of the first of these militaristic boot camps, which opened in 2004, and those who attend them, often involuntarily or after being drugged with sleeping pills, has opened at Sundance Film Festival. Filmmakers Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia spent four months meeting the teenage boys and their parents, who pay twice the average Beijing monthly salary - 10,000 yaun (£997) - for their children to stay there. Web Junkie Clip from Dogwoof Documentary on Vimeo. Adults in charge of the centres explain that their treatment is based on studies which show that teenagers spending more than six hours online per day are risking their health, and describe teenagers so hooked on video gaming that they wear nappies so as to avoid taking a break to use the bathroom. Shlam told AFP, "The children are dropping out from school, they're going to the Internet cafes day and night, they put a diaper on, not to miss one minute of the game." In China's Web Junkie, interviews with the bootcamp inhabitants describe life under the "drillmasters" and explain why they were taken, often misleadingly by their parents, to the centre. One says, "I stayed in the house and played on my computer for one month. After that I was brought here. Internet addiction is increasing across Asian countries, including in South Korea, where online games are one of the country's biggest cultural exports. Love Child, a documentary about a South Korean couple who raised a virtual baby online while neglecting their real three-month-old daughter to death, is also showing at Sundance this year. In August 2013 Japan's ministry said they were to introduce "internet fasting" camps to deal with more than half a million addicted schoolchildren. Parents pay more than double the average monthly wage to send their children to Boot Camp (AFP) Shlam said that Chinese parenting and educational attitudes can encourage internet addiction: "Because there is one child and the future of his family is on his shoulders, the parents are pushing and pushing them to be a better student." Online gaming offers an escape. China's Web Junkie shows parents attending training and therapy sessions at the centre, which explains that their children's addiction is connected to loneliess and that guilt and blame will not encourage recovery. In the film, one teenager says: "when I feel lonely, I go to the Internet and I find another lonely person on the other side." Another scene shows a group of boys interacting and playing card games. Face-to-face discussion with their peers is one of the treatments encouraged at the centre.