Director
Ryan Northcott
Director of Photography
Ryan Northcott
Editor
Ryan Northcott
Cast
Year
2020
Producer
Eric Giesbrecht, Ryan Northcott
Writer
Ryan Northcott
Ameera is a short thriller akin to Black Mirror. Andrea is getting used to her new powerful in-home virtual assistant “ameera”, backed by the ameera suite of software and devices. After a software update beefs up ameera’s predictability and function, her pervasive power grows too strong for Andrea, who struggles with the effects of isolation and mental illness.
01.
Concept
At what lengths do we allow technology to know everything about us? And what does that pervasive knowledge do our mental health? Those are the central questions in “Ameera”. Written and filmed in a week, the self-contained psychological thriller delves deep into the relationship between technology and mental health, inspired by the reading of articles on an almost daily basis about privacy issues with the tech we all know and love.
02.
Crew
Jillian Lee – Associate Producer // Victoria McNair – Hair & Makeup // Arden Shibly – Assistant Camera // Gabriel Yee – Assistant Camera // Daniel Gretton – Sound Recordist // Zak May – Sound Recordist // Still Photographer – Aron Diaz // Catering – Subway (lol)
