We wanted to recreate a microfiche effect to be able to use sourced news articles and photos in a visually interesting way. Using way too many layers and dozens of likely unnecessary effects, I built a rig that allowed us to feed in some pretty meh looking images and it spits out gripping, tantalizing visuals (my words not theirs).  There's some cool lens effects that we ripped off from Bladerunner. Lots of random numbers to make things look official.

Really happy with this one, it was a fun brief and a great team. Docs are hard! 

Released September 2016

Directed by Nicolas De Pencier

Edited by Eric Pedicelli

Based on Ronald Deibert's book Black Code: Surveillance, Privacy, and the Dark Side of the Internet, the film explores the ways in which contemporary technology has facilitated an increasingly sophisticated surveillance infrastructure. The film premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. 

The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Editing in a Documentary (Eric Pedicelli) at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017.