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Gen Z Hire Me

Sure Lee-Temple, a ditzy-but-earnest high-schooler and (recent online-graduate at Central Tech) creates a LinkedIn "Hire Me" video, highlighting her social media "research skills", quirky talents and more. She's ready to dazzle you on her first "work-from-home" day on the job and is of course, #OpenToWork

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Please note that all stock music and Linkedin/Vimeo graphics footage was purchased through www.motionarray.com.

  • Margarita Brighton
    Director
  • Margarita Brighton
    Writer
  • Margarita Brighton
    Key Cast
    "Sure Lee-Temple"
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 34 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 31, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Panosonic G7 DSLR
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Margarita Brighton

Margarita (she/her/they) is a trained Improviser and Comedian of The Second City (Toronto), UCB LA and The Assembly. She is a first-generation, Filipina - Irish Canadian and female documentary filmmaker of the Toronto Indie music scene. Pre-pandemic she would create humorous videos for the likes of Nap Eyes, Daniel Romano, Deliluh, US Girls and more. She is so fortunate as a first generation to be able to afford to do what she loves doing, especially in the as Sure-Lee would put it, "first-world" that she made a character who is completely unaware of the privileges they have today, as an adorable Gen Z.

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Director Statement

I woke up one day to realize that I am incredibly lucky to be where I am today. If my mother never made the choice to migrate from her native country The Philippines at the age of 18 (first to Singapore then to Canada) I wouldn't be alive today. Both my parents grew up with nothing. My mother talks fondly of the times where her father would make them shoes out of coconut shells and banana leaves, to protect their feet from the scorching sun on their walks. Or how her mother used to pinch her hard for staining her school uniform. Or how in typhoon season, her father used to swim each of her 6 siblings from roof to neighbouring roof so that they wouldn't drown. Can you even imagine living a life like that one? Me neither. Yet we obsess over the minunte details of our materialistic lives: what's trending, how little effort we have to put into getting a menial job, while simultaneously we turn our heads away from the struggles in the developing world. The trendy hat you bought was shipped over by a factory working living in insane conditions, yet you have no idea except through the lens of a Facebook expose-documentary what it really means to live that sort of life.

The comedy of this piece is directly connected to its tragedy. A first generation, Gen Z, so far removed from her own culture's struggles as a half-asian and half-white woman. She is focused on doing what she loves doing, "creating content" to obtain a 'work-from-home' position at any company, despite her irritating lack of "experience" paired with her blissful ignorance. In a way, I despise myself for my own ignorance, so I've created this piece as a reflection of myself and to get people talking and laughing at ourselves on how exactly we can do better. Comedy is tragedy. This one is for you mom. X