Pardeep Sahota’s OK/NOTOK short film: Will Our Future Relationships Include In-App Purchases?

My guest today is Pardeep Sahota and his newest short film OK/NOTOK.  He is a British Asian director, screenwriter and producer. He has cited his obsession with filmmaking beginning at age ten, shooting films on his father's VHS camera.  He studied at the University College London, he made short films with the UCL Film Society. Working in commercials he is a three-time Clio award winner and won the Gold - Emerging Artist Award at the British Arrows 2022. His short film series Bleeding Art was Official Selection at Slamdance Film Festival 2020. His newest short film, OK/NOTOK is a genre bending sci-fi comedy drama that speaks to our world right now.  Ladies and gentlemen, Pardeep Sahota’s OK/NOTOK short film is a look into our possible dystopian future of life, especially in the area of relationships.  We are connected by social media making our world seem smaller, but also more disconnected than ever.  What if we were able to order a companion and have them programmed with available upgrades. Would you buy into that? Millions of you would, but what you won’t be able to avoid is the emotional attachment that you will have with it.  Smartphone apps are designed to get you in for free and then created to move you to in-app purchases. It’s like a programmed drug habit. You want more, but you have to pay more to get the continued stimulation or that artificially created high.  Before the smartphones and apps, we relied on human connection to be stimulated with conversation, dating, falling in love, giving love and receiving love back.  In all honestly, Pardeep’s film OK/NOTOK shows us we have already been living in a dystopian world and the only true escape is to look up from our phones and see that real life is still there waiting on us to embrace and be an active participate. You can’t program real life and that’s the way it should be.  I loved this film, because it makes us think and we don’t need Chat GPT to do that, at least not me. #dystopian #dystopian #AI #humanoids #robots #shortfilm #shortfilms #filmmaking #filmmaker #filmdirector #filmproduction #cinema #cinematography #oscars #academyawards #cinephile #bondoncinema