With the teaser above, one must just be thinking how could this Jerk post an irrelevant article on this site of WAT. The day being special in its own way (With bad memories left behind – 9/11 attacks), I started on writing an article on Dot-Com bubble blast. The first thing that came into my mind was this real time movie/documentary, made on two school mates and their start up called govWorks, with a projected market value of 585 billion $’S and how they bit the dust. I dont know when this movie was released but I watched this movie in early 2003 (While I was still attending my Campus interviews in college out to make the best deal). The movie was cranked all through the Journey of the start up (Infact these entrepreuneurs cranked the frames to maintain a video history or behind-the-scenes documentary), right from the start to the end, fantastically showing the situations, scenarios and characters (All Real Time). This movie is an example showing, what not to do and what to do when starting once own business. It also shows how business vanishes because of Ego, infertile associations, greed and creed ofcourse.
The movie starts with Kaleil Isaza Tuzman leaving his job in GoldmanSachs, to be the Chief Executive Officer for his start Up. And his Partner Tom Herman to head the technology side of the start up. Both of them had been devicing an idea to start their own dot com company in the verge of Dot Com Bubble. They had weird ideas (Every new idea is weird at the start) like virtual Cemetaries, functions of Municipalities online etc. They chose the latter, to put all the Manual Efforts of Municipality Offices in US into Online. The works like applying for parking areas, registering vehicles, electricity complaints etc Online. This does show a great maturity in thinking and did impress Loads of Venture Capitalists. Started in somewhere Mid 1999, the film shows how the founders knock the doors for Investments. Though u will not be able to see the Frames of the Investors/VC’S (Either they were not inentionally or they were camera shy 
), the company grew to 120 members (After getting Capital – cant mention the name of VC) by start of 2000. Kaleil becomes medias favourite, giving interviewed, doing Photo Sessions with US President Clinton. They hire more employees, buy out their parners, give leadership speeches but atlast they did not have business model in place. But all through the movie u could see the corporate back bitting, double speaks and how the friends end up betraying each other.
One (Those who are knocking doors of VC’S) would be really sad to watch them burning their capital without showing any output for the money and how the VC’S turn red for the same. The film crawls on intimate details, ego conflicts and gives an insight into the depths of human psychology in the thirst of power and success and above all the erratic notions of Business. Edited from 400 odd hours of footage the film is a real roller coaster ride.. Everyone, closely involved with startups would agree with this after watching the film. A fiction on this would have made this of little impact.
Directed by Jehane Noujaim and Chris Hegedus. R, 105 minutes
2001 Feature Documentary, International
Documentary Association
2001 Best Documentary Jury Award, Philadelphia
2001 Best Documentary, Southeastern Film Critics Association
2002 Best Documentary, Florida Film Critics Circle
2002 Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary, Directors Guild of America
2002 Best Documentary, Kansas City Film Critics Circle
2002 Best Documentary Sierra Award, Las Vegas Film Critics Society
2002 Best Documentary, Online Film Critics Society
Watch the trailer : http://www.startuplapelicula.com/
