香港獨立團隊製作斯諾登事件微電影《Verax》

Secretive government agencies, classified information, internationAl hideouts and charges of espionage -- these are the makings of a Hollywood spy thriller. What began as an anonymous National Security Agency leak has turned into a media frenzy following Edward Snowden, the informant who revealed a secretive government-sanctioned data-mining project to the American public, and the world.
祕密的政府機構、機密情報、國際藏身處、間諜指控——這些都是好萊塢間諜驚悚片的必備元素。自從泄密者斯諾登曝光美國政府用於監控本國和全球網絡數據的祕密項目後，這個國家安全局下屬的無名項目成了世界媒體關注的焦點。

Now, a group of amateur filmmakers, based in the city where Snowden initially fled, Hong Kong, have taken a stab at the global drama that continues to unfold.
現在，一羣來自香港的業餘影片製作人開始嘗試以斯諾登爲主角製作這部全球大戲。斯諾登曝光“棱鏡”事件後首先逃往香港，而接下來他還準備繼續曝光。

“While nearly every media outlet wanted to get their hands on him, we decided to produce a short fiction video to depict his experience in HK, and how it would have affected certain parties,” the group Videos wrote on its YouTube page.
製作團隊 Video在其YouTube主頁上寫道：“現在幾乎所有媒體都想報道有關斯諾登的事件，所以我們決定以他在香港的經歷爲原型製作一個短片。”

（斯諾登的扮演者是一位香港的中學老師，與其本人頗爲相像）

“Namely, the CIA contingent based in HK who would be tasked to find Snowden. The Hong Kong police who would be stuck in between the U.S. and China, and the journalists who want to get the scoop.”
這個事件造成了多方影響，比如說駐紮在香港的中情局分隊收到命令搜尋斯諾登，香港警方在美國和中國之間左右爲難，各家媒體記者都想報道獨家新聞等等。

Though filmmakers cast a uncanny doppelganger for Snowden, they said they knew too little about the character for him to be a prominent feature in the five-minute flick. “We really knew little about him,” they said. “Although he is a central character, he is not the most prominent. It is more about the maelstrom of events surrounding him.”
儘管製片人找到一位和斯諾登相貌極爲相似的演員出演本片，但他們也表示由於對斯諾登了解太少，無法讓他成爲在這部片長5分鐘的微電影裏成爲主角。製片方說：“我們真的對他知之甚少，儘管他是影片中心人物，但卻不是最主要的。這部短片講的更多的是圍繞在他身邊的種種大事件。”

The short is titled "Verax" after the alias (Latin for "truthful") that Snowden used when speaking to journalists on encrypted chat services. It was made in five days.
這部短片僅用五天便製作完成，片名爲《Verax》，是斯諾登在用加密通話設備接受記者採訪時的化名，也是拉丁語“真相”之意。