White House Office Worker
Kate Dibiasky, una estudiante de posgrado de Astronomía, y su profesor, el doctor Randall Mindy acaban de descubrir algo tan asombroso como peligroso. Un cometa en órbita se encuentra en el sistema solar y va directo a colisionar en la Tierra. A pesar de todos sus intentos por advertir al gobierno y la población, parece que la humanidad está dispuesta a tomárselo a broma. Con la ayuda del doctor Oglethorpe, Kate y Randall emprenderán una gira mediática que les llevará desde la Casa Blanca hasta el programa matinal más loco de la televisión para tratar de concienciar al mundo que está a punto de morir.
Production Assistant
Almost forty years after its first appearance in You The Better, the house returns as a character in Beckman’s new work Reach Capacity, now symbolising real estate. The economic and political elements and the structure of the film are closely associated with the most famous of all board games dealing with real estate, Monopoly. Its origins go back to the early 1900s, when Elizabeth Magie created a first version of what she called The Landlord’s Game. Magie’s game had two sets of rules, a Prosperity set and a Monopolist set (only the latter was kept by Parker Brothers when they further developed the game without her). Magie’s aim was to illustrate how society as a whole thrives when monopolies are banished and income is distributed equally. Beckman takes over Magie’s dual game structure by having her screen flip over when a monopoly is reached.
