'Hostile Takeover'

Casting "Hostile Takeover," a 5-minute student psychological thriller. The project is being produced as an academic submission for San Francisco State University's cinema program.

Synopsis: Henry, a married, soon-to-be father and a desperate financial analyst on the brink of eviction, arrives for a hedge fund job interview, only to realize the CEO is blackmailing him into becoming her alibi for a murder. Now he must make a choice: become her alibi in exchange for money or let his family starve. Set entirely within a single corporate office. Exploring how a rigged economic system allows the ultra-rich to weaponize the poverty of the vulnerable.