DRONES Presentations

In a doublewide trailer somewhere in the Nevada desert, a general’s daughter (Eloise Mumford) on her first day of deployment and a high school dropout airman (Matt O’Leary) decide the fates of “terrorists” from a height of five miles up.  As the action plays out in real time and their window to “drop the hellfire” slowly closes, the threat of violence against civilians becomes a no-holds-barred philosophical debate about what a solider must know – and not know – in order to pull the trigger. In the tradition of such thrillers as FAIL SAFE and 12 ANGRY MEN, director Rick Rosenthal has ripped the polite mask off the modern arsenal to present this clear-headed portrayal of drone warfare.  With its knowing inclusion of video game imagery and musical cues, DRONES deconstructs the tropes of action films and military drama to reveal the emotional detachment of our fighting men and women.