Please Hold

Please Hold imagines a near-future criminal justice system in which police drones arrest people and automated facilities handle detention. The setup turns bureaucracy and machine decision-making into the film’s central source of tension.

Please Hold was written and directed by K.D. Davila. It is a 2020 American live-action science-fiction short film.

It is a dark satire that uses science fiction to criticize automated policing and the criminal justice system. The story follows a young man whose arrest becomes an impersonal administrative process.

The film focuses on systems that make life-changing decisions without meaningful human accountability. Its 2020 setting and use of police drones make the satire directly relevant to debates about automation and surveillance.