![]() From his struggle to get answers about his case to the exploitative labor practices, Mateo’s experience isn’t too far off from what’s happening in the prison industrial complex today. Though she’s an avowed “Black Mirror” fan, she wanted the futuristic elements of “Please Hold” to feel less sleek and more plausible. Your only real interaction is with a screen, kind of like inflight entertainment … doesn’t feel so far off from what’s here.” So the idea of a prison that’s a self-serve automated jail, where you have to put yourself in jail, you don’t see a human being. “One of my friends works for a consulting firm that automates jobs out of existence. “The version of artificial intelligence that interests me and scares me is the one that doesn’t think, doesn’t feel, and just follows its programming, and in many ways already exists,” Dávila said. have feelings, and if so, how do we handle that? have been about how close to the human experience the technology can get. From contemporary classics like “Terminator” and “Robocop” to elevated genre fare like “Ex Machina” and “After Yang,” the primary questions about A.I. She wanted to flip the script on sci-fi’s usual approach artificial intelligence. “This idea came pretty fully formed of, ‘What if we took that and combined it with the universal experience of being stuck on the phone with customer service?’ Like an automated phone tree where you’re in a Kafka-esque hell.” “That story really stuck with me,” she said. Unfortunately, such stories are all too common, to say nothing of the effects of the system on people who are found or considered guilty. By then, he had already lost his car and his job. When he finally appeared before a judge after weeks in jail, the judge realized he didn’t fit the description at all and dropped the charges. She had read an article about a Latino man who was arrested because he had the same name as the alleged defendant. I wanted to think of something we could do with one space.” … I think putting constraints on yourself can really help. “We were trying to think of things that we could do realistically. “I always start with a little bit of a producer’s mindset when I’m trying to generate ideas,” said Dávila. He is arrested via drone, and can only speak to other humans through expensive video calls, which he frantically crochets baby sweaters to afford. Mateo is essentially the only character in the film, though a few others appear onscreen. ![]() The film takes place in a single location, an entirely automated prison cell, where Mateo (Erick Lopez) is presumably awaiting trial without even knowing what the allegations against him are. She brought that scrappy can-do mentality to “Please Hold,” which she co-wrote with her partner Omer Levin Menekse. You just have to have really strong department heads and communicate your vision.” It made me realize I didn’t need to know all the answers to how everything works. “He probably has a much better grasp of it all now, but at the time he was trying to learn more about the technical aspects of the camera side of things. “He admitted to me that he didn’t understand some of the stuff the camera department does,” she said. ![]() It took watching Williams on set, and his honesty about his own blind spots, to realize she didn’t need to know every little technical aspect to sit in the director’s chair. Set to release this May from Amazon Studios, “Emergency” is an expansion of the 2018 short Dávila made with director Carey Williams. You’re the producer.’ So it was a mental hurdle for me to be like, ‘Oh, I could do that.’ It’s kind of crazy to think how long I spent not realizing I could. I think women often get kind of told, ‘You’re the supporter of the project. “There aren’t that many short Latina directors in the world. … I think that there was this mental hurdle of thinking of myself as a director,” the filmmaker said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “The process of directing had been very mysterious to me for a long time. Toni Collette: Intimacy Coordinators Are 'There as a Safety Net' but 'Not Always a Necessity'Īll the Details on 'Hunger Games' Prequel 'The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes'įrom 'Reality Bites' to 'Fatal Attraction,' Keep Track of All the Upcoming Film-to-TV Adaptations 'Sidney' Director Reginald Hudlin Says He 'Doesn't Exist' Without the Work of Sidney Poitier
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