The Mission: Vincent (the hustler) and Anton (the coding genius) quit their jobs to build an underground cable that achieves a 16-millisecond round-trip for data, beating the current 17-millisecond standard.
The Hummingbird Project (2018) is a Canadian-Belgian techno-thriller that dives into the high-stakes, hyper-competitive world of high-frequency trading (HFT). Directed by Kim Nguyen, the film explores the extreme lengths entrepreneurs go to for a competitive edge—even if that edge is measured in milliseconds. Movie Overview & Technical Specs The Hummingbird Project 2018 WEB-DL 900MB Engli...
Release Date: September 8, 2018 (TIFF); March 15, 2019 (USA) Genre: Drama / Thriller Runtime: 1 hour 51 minutes (111 minutes) MPAA Rating: R (for language throughout) Cast: Jesse Eisenberg as Vincent Zaleski Alexander Skarsgård as Anton Zaleski Salma Hayek as Eva Torres Michael Mando as Mark Vega The Plot: A Race Against Time The Mission: Vincent (the hustler) and Anton (the
At the heart of the story are cousins Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton Zaleski (Alexander Skarsgård). Vincent is the charismatic, fast-talking hustler, while Anton is the socially awkward, brilliant programmer. Together, they hatch a plan to build a straight fiber-optic cable from Kansas to New Jersey. Their goal is to gain a 16-millisecond advantage over other traders, a time frame roughly equivalent to a single beat of a hummingbird’s wing. This infinitesimal edge is enough to generate millions of dollars in the world of HFT, where algorithms compete to buy and sell stocks in the blink of an eye. Movie Overview & Technical Specs Release Date: September
The film centers on the cousins' ambitious and risky plan to dig a straight-line tunnel across thousands of miles of American landscape.
The title refers to the speed of a single hummingbird's wing beat—roughly 16 milliseconds. If the Zaleski cousins can lay their cable in a perfectly straight line, they can shave one millisecond off the current data transmission speed, allowing them to execute trades before anyone else. The Hustler