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WarnerMedia OneFifty Nabs Oscar-Nominated Short ‘Please Hold’ for HBO Max

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Anna Marie de la Fuente In its continued bid to provide compelling artist-forward stories, WarnerMedia OneFifty has picked up the live action Oscar-nominated short “Please Hold” to stream exclusively on HBO Max where it bows on March 17.The directorial debut of Mexican-American screenwriter KD Dávila, who co-wrote the short with Levin Menekse, “Please Hold” is a darkly comic dystopian tale set in the not-so-distant future.

It follows young Mateo Torres (played by Erick Lopez) who in a case of mistaken identity, is arrested by a police drone while on his way to work.

He finds himself in a fully automated prison cell where he struggles to find a living human being to set things straight as his situation gets even more absurd and frustrating by the nanosecond. “The idea for the film came to us after I read this article about a Latino man who got arrested and jailed by mistake because he had a common Spanish name,” said Davila. “He was unable to convince anyone that they had the wrong guy.

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