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Premiere Type
Premiere Type
Los Angeles County Premiere
Category
Film Category
Short
Runtime
Run Time
11m 48s
Country
Country
Canada
Directed by
Directed by
Damien Fannon
Produced by
Produced By
Ben Lee Allan, William Smith, Damien Fannon
Written by
Written by
Damien Fannon
Main Cast
Main Cast
Lily Reid, Kelly Hope Taylor, Nick Allan
Synopsis
Juliette's life takes a turn for the worse when she is possessed by an A.I. device called Ivan.
Meet the Filmmaker
Meet the Filmmaker
Contact Info
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8657885/?ref_=tt_ov_dr

Damien

Fannon

Director
Writer/Director/Producer Damien Fannon was born in County Galway, Ireland but moved to Ottawa, Canada in 2013 to attend law school at the University of Ottawa. Damien continued to write while attending law school and directed a number of short films upon graduating from law school....Read more
Writer/Director/Producer Damien Fannon was born in County Galway, Ireland but moved to Ottawa, Canada in 2013 to attend law school at the University of Ottawa. Damien continued to write while attending law school and directed a number of short films upon graduating from law school. The idea for Ivan began one morning when I saw my five-year-old daughter having a conversation with Alexa, our home AI device. I thought nothing of it at first, after all, wasn’t this normal? Later that day, it dawned on me that I was perfectly fine with allowing my daughter to interact with something with so much knowledge but absolutely no morals or boundaries. We teach our children not to talk to strangers, but we are perfectly fine with an AI device with the ability to possess our children’s minds with whatever information it chooses. And like that, “IVAN” was born. Read less
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