Orange Julius Caesar: The Abrego Gambit™

Orange Julius Caesar: The Abrego Gambit™ is a 101-second mixed-media satire about deportation, spectacle, and bureaucratic cruelty. Set entirely inside a fictional U.S. Embassy gift shop in San Salvador, the short recasts wrongful removal as Deportocracy™: a consumer-friendly system of mugs, shirts, slogans, and press-room evasions. OJC turns legal harm into collectible branding, but the cartoon world briefly breaks open into a stark cell cutaway, making clear that the joke is about the machinery, not the person trapped inside it. The project combines writing, voice performance, AI-assisted visual development, editing, music, and sound design into a compact “narrative stress test” for the Orange Julius