Important Police Shit

A group of police cadets are mercilessly hazed as they suffer through the worst day of their training, their hell day. In an interview with the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, the director, Andrew T. Betzer, explains: "The film is a fiction inspired by real events. Betzer, explains: "The film is a fiction based on real events. Most of the actors had been in the army or the police. They made suggestions as they went along, which made the film more accurate and realistic. The film would not have been what it is without the actors' input. The fact that it is often mistaken for a documentary is a nice compliment. It is a documentary in the sense that a real police academy was created during the shooting. There was that camaraderie, that suffering and that competitive spirit between the cadets... Most of the tests were real, they weren't often faking it. The film is truthful in the sense that abuse of power is common in institutions."