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Olara looking out of window
Through the reflection of a car's side mirror, man in a baseball hat is having a phone call
A woman in a green baseball hat and yellow dress pulling down her glasses in surprise.

Synopsis

Bento Moura is running out of options. Broke, exhausted and under pressure from his estranged family, he takes covert work for a shadowy compliance firm spying on London’s remote workforce. Armed with a Prius and a long lens, Bento hunts for “productivity crimes”: an ad creative skipping agency calls, a project manager dancing in his underwear and a coder choosing the gym over a client status meeting. But as he sinks deeper into the absurdity of corporate surveillance, a routine audit pushes him from casual stalking to breaking into a worker’s home and forces him to decide how far he is willing to go to remain employable.

HollyShorts Film Festival 2026

Details

Year
2026
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
18 min 38 sec
Director
Efosa Osaghae
Producer
Efosa Osaghae, Jessica Emens
Editor
Efosa Osaghae
Screenwriter
Efosa Osaghae
Director of Photography
Jed Darlington-Roberts
Production Designer
Antonia Reed
Sound
Mustafa Bal
Composer
Giuseppe Vasapolli
Principal cast
Alec Christie, Babirye Bukilwa, Roxanne Nielsen

Genre

Black Comedy Drama Mystery

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Efosa Osaghae

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