Please Hold
TITLE
Please Hold
DIRECTOR
K.D. Dávila
COUNTRY
USA
YEAR
2020
DURATION
19′
GENRE
Live Action
Please Hold
In the not-so-distant future, Mateo (20s, Latino) is arrested by a police drone without explanation. Finding himself locked in a fully automated jail with no means of recourse, Mateo realizes he’s fallen through some kind of crack in the system. To get out alive he’ll have to go head-to-head with the labyrinthine, computerized bureaucracy of the privatized American justice system, in search of an actual human being who can set things right.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - K.D. Dávila
K.D. Dávila is a Mexican-American filmmaker and writer from Los Angeles. Her feature screenplay EMERGENCY earned her the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival where the film premiered. EMERGENCY was produced by Temple Hill for Amazon. It is based on the short of the same name, which won Best Narrative Short at SXSW 2018 and the Special Jury Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. PLEASE HOLD, her directorial debut, is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. KD has written for several television shows, most recently MOTHERLAND: FORT SALEM. She is currently developing a new series for CBS Studios, as well as a feature screenplay for BAD ROBOT. KD holds a degree in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton, and an MFA in Screenwriting from USC.
- Director K.D. Dávila
- Screenplay K.D. Dávila, Omer Levin Menekse
- Cinematography Farhad Ahmed Dehlvi
- Editing Brian Paison
- Cast Erick Lopez, Doreen Calderon, Daniel Edward Mora, Ruben Dávila
- Producer/sOmer Levin Menekse, Marc A. Mounier, Diego Nájera
- Production Company Scavenger Entertainment
- Distributor/s HBO Max
- Project Title Please Hold
- Project Type Live Action
- Completion Date March 17, 2022
- Country of origin United States
- Country of filming
- Language English
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student Project No
K.D. Dávila
K.D. Dávila is a Mexican-American filmmaker and writer from Los Angeles. Her feature screenplay EMERGENCY earned her the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival where the film premiered. EMERGENCY was produced by Temple Hill for Amazon. It is based on the short of the same name, which won Best Narrative Short at SXSW 2018 and the Special Jury Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. PLEASE HOLD, her directorial debut, is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. KD has written for several television shows, most recently MOTHERLAND: FORT SALEM. She is currently developing a new series for CBS Studios, as well as a feature screenplay for BAD ROBOT. KD holds a degree in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton, and an MFA in Screenwriting from USC.
Academy Awards
Nominee for Best Live Action Short Film, 2022
Tirana International Film Festival
Special Screening, 2022
