Human Resources

At their heart, ghost stories are about retribution for wrongdoing, the desire for justice despite death. "Human Resources" gives these old-school ghost-story archetypes a modern twist with social-justice themes, offering a timely commentary on corporate exploitation and the willful ignorance of its perpetrators. What may seem like a benign keystroke or coldly clinical merger can have real human consequences beneath the layers of business-speak. What if those victims were made flesh and impossible to ignore? This film uses fantastical archetypes to dramatize real problems, and ultimately ask what can be done to fix them. We set out to make a conceptually and visually rich movie that is also purely entertaining -- and on a shoestring budget, we had the freedom to play with genre conventions in a fresh and unusual way. It's just the kind of intimate, edgy indie movie I love stumbling upon on a dark and stormy night.