This is my debut short film. I shot it in 2016 using my college financial aid money. We shot it the same weekend Harambe was murdered. It was my attempt at making a BBC TV drama / Costa-Gavras style political thriller. The finished version of the film is (currently) lost, and all that remains is this rough cut from August 2016 that I had miraculously saved on my Google Drive. I hope you can look past all the awkward production follies and sound mishaps and perhaps appreciate the vision I was going for.

I am very proud of what my cast and crew accomplished on such limited resources, and I hope you enjoy my early attempts at political satire. Re-watching it for the first time after all these years gave me many good laughs, and it brought back some fond memories of making it.

Credits

Writer, editor, director Pablo Danilo Rivera

Director of photography Jacob C. Angulo

Production designer Sydney Peterson

Costume designer Nicolle Harper

Assistant director Allix Woodfork

Producer Michael Vaughn