Craig Zobel - Compliance

Writer-director Craig Zobel will discuss his controversial and compelling new film Compliance. Zobel is a rising star who is following up his remarkable directorial debut, Great Wall of Sound  (2007), with this ripped-from-the-headlines thriller.

Widely debated and discussed ever since its premiere in this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Compliance follows Sandra, manager of a fast food joint, as she interrogates a teenage employee by the demand of a man on the phone who claims to be a police officer. Inspired by a bizarre series of true events spanning the last twenty years in over thirty states, Zobel’s story examines our complicity to authority figures even when it goes against our better judgment. With an eerie and precise resemblance to the surveillance footage of one such incident in 2004, Compliance is photographed more disturbingly than some of the most graphic horror films. The Hollywood Reporter says the intensity of Zobel’s new film is “likely to spur discussions about workplace safety, employee rights, and broader awareness of sexual predation.”