Mike, a well known young hacker, has just been hired as a security analyst at Firefense. While pitching his work on hardened rootkits to the board he will come across what looks like an illegal attempt of escalation of privileges upon his company’s network. With the help of Mia, Marcel, other hackers and even his neighbor Mrs. Sievers, he will track down the packets. This pursue will finally take him on his last step to a bakeshop nearby that is being used as a proxy by the NSA. A fictional story portraying the real deal of how government surveillance tracks all our movements, foreign and domestic.
I wrote, produced and directed this short film on the American Patriot Act and surveillance, based on true and recent events at the time related to the Snowden case. We filmed across Los Angeles, Helsinki and Berlin, counting on the European hacker community c-base, the RootedCON and reknowned Finnish cibersecurity expert Mikko Hyppönen.
Starring: Robert Francis, Ancilla Tillia, Skip Pipo, Tom Wade, Pierre Pronchery and Phyllis Politowicz.
Runtime: 14m
Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
Year: 2016
Screenings and Awards:
- London Independent Film Awards – Mejor Directora Femenina [June ’16]
- Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival – Official Selection [’17]
- Los Angeles Film Awards – Mención Honorífica por Edición [’17]
- LA Indep. Film Festival Awards – Mejor Thriller de acción [’18]
- Silicon Valley Intl. Film Festival – Sección Oficial [’17]
- Geofilmfestival and Expocinema – Sección Oficial [’17]
- IndustryBOOST – Finalista [’16]
- Null Security Open Meetup (Amsterdam., NLD – Nov. 2017)
- LaCON (Santiago de Compostela, ES – Sep. 2017)
- AlligatorCON Europe (Krakow, POL – Agosto 2017)
- RootedCON Premiere (Mad, ES – Mar 2017)
- MAS Meetup (Berlin, DE – Enero 2017)
