Why do you want to make the film you are working on at UCF?

Corruption is a well-known secret inside government institutions in Ecuador. It has always amazed me how this type of illegal activities can exist so openly in the Ecuadorian society without ever being any repercussions. It’s like the Prohibition period in the EEUU, where although alcohol was banned, people kept selling it and drinking it. When something like this happens, people stop seeing corruption as an anomaly, it becomes standard procedure. But just like with the Prohibition it remains an underground activity. The dark secret in the family, something people would try to hide and never admit openly but which they practice everyday. You want to skip a driving ticket, you pay the police officer; you want your son to pass in school you pay the teacher; you want to win a trial, you pay the judge; you want to succeed as a government employee, you let the politicians steal, etc.

I have always wondered too about the process a person goes through when what he or she’s been taught to perceive as a good or acceptable action, gets confronted with a corrupted reality. How would this person react? Would the person embrace or fight this reality, which asks him or her to act against their principles?

In a society, the government sets the rules. If the government is corrupt then the whole system becomes corrupted and I think that’s what has happened in Ecuador and other countries. So I thought what if there's someone out there that becomes so sick of corruption that he or she decides to take vengeance against the people responsible for it. Someone who becomes a sort of vigilante that wants to get rid of the bad politicians or government employees who have committed acts of corruption. It could be, one of these people who are always whispering about it. What if someone would actually dare to do it? When people lose faith in the system, it’s usually a matter of time before they start taking matters into their own hands.

I want to make a film that addresses this type of perceptions in a comic way: Can the system ever truly change? Is corruption impenetrable? Is death the only way to get rid of corrupt politicians?