Director: Matt Sandoval

Producer: Erin Canterbury, Grace Amato, Christie Dorough

Logline: When a young black man awakens in a workplace nightmare, he must encounter a series of increasingly horrific and racist scenarios, and the only way to escape is to conform to the Corporate Machine.

Synopsis: Zion, a mid-twenties black man, awakens, alone at his desk. Sounds of a busy office fill his ears, yet no one else is in sight. Something isn’t quite right. His coworker, Emily, speaks to him through his Bluetooth earpiece. Zion has no idea who she is. Emily then poses the question - Does Zion even know who HE is?

Soon after, Zion realizes that he is trapped. His memories have been wiped, and he is in a bizarre hellscape that masquerades as modern-day Corporate America.

Zion meets Milner, a man who seems to be his age, if not younger, and discovers that Milner is the mastermind behind this whole operation. With no escape in sight, Zion convinces Emily to team up to find a way out. However, each attempt at escape ends in a horrific catastrophe; despite this, Zion stays persistent until the very end.

Even in the face of racist corporate entities, Zion refuses to stand down and capitulate, even when capitulation may be his only path to survival...

“Potluck” (2024)

Photos by Armando Maldonado

Photos by Reid Sanders