9 minutes of pure panic—would YOU chase a thief for your film?
Two filmmakers have their film's hard drive stolen, which they need to finish in two days, so they go to great lengths to find it.
Acting
Tejeda and Estrella's frantic chemistry drives every beat.
Direction
Rosario packs feature-length tension into nine minutes.
Writing
Sharp escalation from bad to catastrophic to absurd.
Director
Vicente Rosario
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in the Dominican Republic, the film captures specific local frustrations with police response times and informal problem-solving that resonates across Latin American indie filmmaking circles.
The 9-minute runtime mirrors real-time panic—Rosario reportedly wrote it after his own hard drive corrupted mid-edit, making this essentially expensive therapy.
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