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00:00 (dramatic music)

00:02 - Hello, I'm Daniel Hösel,

00:06 writer and director of the film "Veni, Vidi, Vici".

00:09 After my first feature film "The Chain" premiered

00:11 at the 2013 edition, I'm honored to return to Sundance now

00:15 with my partner, partner in crime.

00:18 - Hi there, I'm Julia Nieman.

00:19 I too directed our film "Veni, Vidi, Vici",

00:22 which is premiering in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition.

00:24 It's already our second directing collaboration

00:27 after a documentary feature we made together

00:29 about Davos and the World Economic Forum.

00:32 - And because we always follow the money.

00:35 In our feature "Veni, Vidi, Vici",

00:36 we tell the story of a billionaire family

00:39 living the perfect life.

00:41 - And work-life balance is really everything to them.

00:44 So they like to go hunting.

00:46 It's an old family tradition,

00:48 but they would never harm animals.

00:50 - They leave traces at their victims.

00:52 They try the police, the justice system,

00:54 politicians, the media to stop them.

00:57 It's tough when you're above the law, isn't it?

01:00 - Didn't some country's president say something like,

01:02 "I could kill someone on Fifth Avenue,

01:04 but still get elected."

01:06 - Our film is a satire about plutocracy, about meritocracy.

01:11 It's about our divided society,

01:13 about us and about the others.

01:16 - So when writing the screenplay,

01:18 I've discovered that the topic is so serious.

01:21 The only way to tell the parable is through paradoxy.

01:24 That's why I've chosen to make a satire.

01:26 - And to achieve this, we again worked

01:28 with our longtime collaborator, D.O.P. Gerhard Keklitz,

01:31 with whom we've developed a hyper-realistic film language

01:34 to elevate the film just an inch over reality.

01:37 We only shot when it was sunny.

01:39 - There's only sunshine in the life of the murderous Mainers.

01:43 And thus we love to play around with production design

01:45 and costume design to create that sweet,

01:47 aloof environment of entitlement.

01:50 - Which makes the film more entertaining

01:52 and also more irritating.

01:54 - It also was irritatingly hard to get this film made.

01:56 It took seven years to finance it,

01:58 and I was at my low points going through the years.

02:02 I wrote the screenplay in 2015,

02:04 but I've always been fighting to make this film.

02:06 It has a lot to do with my personal life,

02:08 with my working class background, which I share with Julia.

02:12 We're both from rural, very conservative areas.

02:15 We're here against all odds,

02:16 knowing indeed that it's much harder for others

02:19 who don't have the privilege to be born white Europeans.

02:22 But there's something that should unite all of us.

02:25 Don't we have to stand up

02:26 against the Rockefellers of our times?

02:28 - So isn't it fun to quote Ayn Rand in that context?

02:33 In her book, "The Fountainhead," I found her asking,

02:37 "The question isn't who's going to let me,

02:39 "it's who's going to stop me."

02:42 - It concerns all of us.

02:43 - Or do you want to be the next victim

02:45 of the murderous Mainers?

02:47 - Then you have to rise up, cream puffs of the planet.

02:52 (upbeat music)

02:55 (dramatic music)

02:58 (upbeat music)

03:01 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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