{prepare for the enlightenment}
Channel: Fine Structure Productions
Date: 07/04/2015

In February 2013 I started my first semester at Sydney Film School. I was selected to direct one of the documentaries to be produced that semester and this is the fruit of my labors.

 This mini documentary touches on the subjects of government surveillance and privacy through the context of Ingress - a GPS  strategy game designed for Android phones by NianticLabs, a subsidiary of Google Inc.

 After having shot all the footage and entering the editing room two events occurred; 
 a three hour conversation between Julian Assange and Eric Schmidt was released on WikiLeaks and shortly thereafter the Snowden revelations.
 As they seemed to fit perfectly with the story I was going for I sampled parts of these two publications.

 At the 18th Sydney Film School Festival it won a prize for "Best Sound Design", as well as took home the "Most Provocative Film" award. This lead to it being screened at the Sydney Underground Film Festival 2013.
 In 2014 it was screened at the Bradford International Film Festival.

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