End Meeting
Director: Alice Roth
Cast:Sarah Steele, Tenea Intriago, Catherine Curtin
Crew:Writer: Alice Roth, Producer: Dena Greenbaum, Cinematographer: Dan Witrock, Production Designer: James Bartol, Costume Designer: Sara Ryer, Editor: Matt Hunziker, Assistant Director: Rachel Cantor, Composer: Dash Hammerstein.
Email:alicerothfilm@gmail.com
Synopsis
An office worker tries to save her co-worker's life over zoom.
About the director
Alice Roth is a writer/director based in Brooklyn. For the past decade, she has written, directed, and produced internet videos and documentaries for magazines including The Atlantic, WIRED, Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest, People, and Entertainment Weekly.
She is a graduate of the Dramatic Writing program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she wrote two features, two pilots, and one very weird play. Her current feature is going great, by the way. Writing is very easy and fun. Thank you for asking.
Filmmaker's note
For many corporate professionals, the boundary between work and life has collapsed almost entirely thanks to smartphones and remote work. At the same time, workers are increasingly physically disconnected, removing them from a tangible sense of shared reality. Legacy media companies fight to maintain public trust while unregulated free online content and A.I. generated slop takes over social media feeds. What’s left of the free press is contingent on billionaire investments and selling user data to maintain profitability. Every day, a new horror.
Enter Margot, a burned-out millennial who carries the personal burden of maintaining journalistic standards at Kaleidoscope, a digital media company with an annual layoff tradition. End Meeting satirizes corporate culture and channels 21st century anxieties around job insecurity and digital isolation.