Algorithm The Hacker Movie (2014)

Algorithm The Hacker Movie (2014)


QUOTES:

"Saw it last night and couldn't take my attention away from the movie."
-- Steve Wozniak (hacker/co-founder of Apple)

"ALGORITHM is probably one of the best indiefilms I've ever seen. It's definitely the best movie about technology I've ever seen."
-- Matt Wallace (author/screenwriter)

"I'd describe ALGORITHM as a cinemanifesto for the information tech age."
-- Miles Maker (producer)

"It's an honest ode to hacking and that lifestyle."
-- Sean Hackett (screenwriter/director)

"The man did his research. The hacking community is going to love this."
-- Steve Riekeberg (geek/podcaster)

"I loved the film. I thought it was really great."
-- Steve Gibson (computer researcher/security podcaster)

"Excellent movie, an inspiration to all young hackers."
-- John (Cap'n Crunch) Draper (Epic Hacker)


PLOT SUMMARY

In San Francisco, during September, 2012, nine months before Edward Snowden leaked documents that prove the NSA spies on everyone—Will, a freelance computer hacker specializes in breaking into secure systems.

Using a security hole he found while on a job, Will breaks into a top-secret government contractor and downloads all their recently developed programs, including the conspicuously named Shepherd. Every time Will attempts to access Shepherd, bad things happen.


MOTIVATION

At the core of ALGORITHM’s plot are the questions that are shaking up the tech world to it’s very core, and the nations of the world right along with them: privacy, human rights, the place of government in the lives of citizens, the value and power of technology.


A DIFFERENT BUSINESS MODEL

The business model for ALGORITHM is based on the models of tech startups as described in The Lean Startup. It’s a profit-share agreement, giving everyone who works on the movie a vested interest in the success of the project. All profits get shared by the artist who actually made it happen.


CREATIVE DISTRIBUTION

Because of our New Media Agreement with SAG, ALGORITHM will be released for a very limited time on Youtube/Vimeo, for free! After the 24hr free-view period, we’re taking the movie offline. Two weeks later, it goes for sale on our website, again, as streaming video. Then the real sales begin as we slowly scale to HD downloads, to DVD and Blu-ray sales, even a complete production journal by the writer/director, Jonathan Schiefer. Finally, if there’s enough demand, we might do a limited and targeted theater run.


source: http://www.thehackermovie.com/