The Hummingbird Project

"The Hummingbird Project" is a 2018 thriller drama film about high-frequency trading and ultra-low latency direct market access, written and directed by Kim Nguyen. It stars Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Mando, Sarah Goldberg, and Salma Hayek as Eva Torres. The film follows two high-frequency traders, Vincent Zaleski (Jesse Eisenberg) and his cousin Anton Zaleski (Alexander Skarsgård), who team up with a new hire, Mark Vega (Michael Mando), to build a fiber-optic cable tunnel to shave milliseconds off their trading times.