The Root Kit

I found the trailer to be a half-hearted affair. Not compelling at all. And I have a pressing question: Why this director and this project for this particular subject? He does not clarify why it should be he that makes this film. If anything, I get the impression he should be kept a mile away from the subject. I failed to see a review of his expertise or qualifications, other than being a video jock with some minor credits to his name. Not likely to get funded.

They seem to be on the right track as far as threat aspect. Unfortunately, the fundraising probably won't make it in time.

The truth about a "hacker" is not the scripts they run or, the code they bash on the keyboard.

It is the lifestyle & the methodology that drives every thought the enters their minds. They think by scale, from the smallest fundamental interaction of electrons and strings, to the largest interaction between information networks(such as the multiverse itself) too the human brains great quantum-electrochemical neural exchange.

Some, even possess the ability to bring into existence new forms of conscious entities such as artificial intelligence.

Hackers as a collective whole, have a choice, and a responsibility.

When the world goes flat, we make sure the Earth still has reason to spin around.

Wasn't this already done in a truly exemplary fashion by Hackers (1995)?

I read somewhere that exceptional hackers follow the defect report logs of major software and find ways to exploit problems before patches come out... so is this movie going to cover that exhilarating process? Personally I like movies like "Hackers" and "Swordfish", I don't think legitimate malicious hacking should ever become mainstream.

Honestly, it's difficult. I have family ties here or I would have moved to LA 5 years ago; it's hard to make a living up here because there are relatively few productions and not much networking infrastructure.

You can check in with Film Arts Foundation in SF (9th street I think) who have some decent resources, but the best ways to get gigs are a) craigslist and b) lurk around the Academy of Art in SF, which is always churning out film students, and which is dominated by wannabe directors/cinematographers, which means few of the students are interested in or good at sound.

There's a couple of talent agents in SF; get some decent headshots and put them on file, plus FAF has a headshot file cabinet so you can put your face in there for free. Although I actually have a fair bit of acting training, it's never been my personal ambition and I don't consider myself all that photogenic so I've never tried to do that as my main job; it's just another thing I can do on an as-needed basis on a film set, like lighting or packing a truck. You need to be versatile to work in the indie scene.

Drop me a line near the end of the month, I like teaching.