2018 Austin Film Festival and Conference Schedule

(USA, 102 min)
Writer:Mark Leidner
Director:Yedidya Gorestman
Cast: Zack Robidas, Jay Klaitz, Kathy Searle, Eric Berryman

Desperate to get back on top after being scapegoated in a multi-million dollar scandal, Silicon Valley financier Joel Eastman-Green convinces his in-laws to invest their savings in Empathy, Inc.—a VR startup that allows wealthy clientele to experience poverty in the name of spiritual enlightenment. But when Joel finds out the company is secretly allowing the rich to body-swap with the poor solely in order to live out depraved fantasies in other people’s bodies, Joel must find a way to stop his business partners before they use their body-swapping technology to endanger him and his family.