All You Need is Less

The scouts

Fast fashion doc is catnip for the preachy-festival circuit, but Blades, Guillen, and Dela Cruz avoid the sermon by actually *showing* the TikTok algorithm's complicity—that's the subversive move everyone else is too literal to attempt.

Three directors orchestrating a 9-minute argument about systemic exploitation with the formal restraint of a essay film rather than a screed; the structure linking factory floors to infinite scroll suggests real consideration of how documentary form mirrors its subject.

The decision to cut between factory workers and scrolling Gen Z faces using the *same rhythm* transforms what could be a guilt-trip into something formally elegant—that's when you know the budget constraints forced the one choice that made everything else matter.