As layoffs and scandal engulf his company, a rising creator must choose between personal visibility and the truth.
Set inside a collapsing tech machine, Everything Is Fake is a short film about image, labor, ambition, and the performance of success. It is built to intrigue an audience and orient festivals, juries, and press immediately.
The site now needs to behave like a film site, not a startup placeholder. That means story, mood, filmmaker voice, and clean access for programmers, awards committees, and press.
John has built an identity around looking indispensable. Online, he appears polished, ambitious, and in control. Offline, layoffs, corruption, and corporate self-protection are closing in around him. As the company he serves grows more unstable, he has to decide whether visibility is actually power or just another trap.
Everything Is Fake uses the split between curated social video and lived reality to expose how performance, loyalty, and aspiration can become tools of control.
Interest comes from tension, not administration. The page should sell the idea, the relevance, and the filmmaking language before it starts listing materials.
The film turns the gap between social-media performance and actual life into the engine of the story.
John is not just trying to survive. He is trying to become visible in a system that rewards performance over integrity.
The visual language moves from curated vertical video into increasingly unstable reality, giving the film a built-in hook.
The strongest version of this site needs filmmaker authorship on the page. That is how it stops feeling generic and starts feeling specific.
Adam Thomas is a New York-based writer-director whose work centers identity, labor, social performance, and the ways institutions shape personal behavior. His selected directing credits include Beelzepup (2025), Borders (2024), and The Great American Hangover (2023).
Everything Is Fake extends that interest into the modern workplace, where aspiration, personal branding, and corporate self-preservation blur into a single performance.
Awards-ready does not mean pretending the film already has laurels. It means the infrastructure is clean, credible, and easy for gatekeepers to use.
Screeners, press materials, and awards consideration information are available by request. This keeps the site public-facing and intriguing while still supporting professional review.
Even before the final assets are live, the site should show that a professional package is forming around the film.
Writer / Director: Adam Thomas
Additional cast and crew credits will be announced as materials are finalized.
Director statement, poster, stills, press kit, screener workflow, and festival updates.
This should stay frictionless. If someone is interested, they should know exactly how to reach the film.
Email: adam@directedbyadam.com
Website: directedbyadam.com