Project Detail

Speaking in Silence

Name: Speaking in Silence
Director: Zoe Tweedy
Genre: Woman Director
Released: 2021
Duration: 14 min 5 secs

Zoe Tweedy

Synopsis

SPEAKING IN SILENCE gently explores the experience of Selective Mutism from within. Selective Mutism is an anxiety disorder, through which the sufferer is unable to speak in many social settings. Extending far beyond shyness, the silence becomes an insurmountable wall to the outside world. A wall built on fear.

Told from the filmmaker’s perspective the documentary forms a time traveling poem-come-warning of the challenge to agency faced in the condition. The story is addressed to Saarah, a young Londoner struggling with the shifting challenges of mutism as she moves into adolescence. A fellow voiceless soul that the filmmaker encountered just in time.

Details

Year: 2021
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 14 min 5 secs
Format: Digital
Director: Zoe Tweedy
Producer: Brian Henry Martin
Executive Producer: Lisa Marie Russo
Editor: Mike McKnight
Screenwriter: Zoe Tweedy
Director of Photography: Zoe Tweedy, Monika Jastrzebska
Composer: Score Draw Music
Principal cast: Zoe Tweedy, Saarah Bedekar

Genre

Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

DoubleBand Films

3 Crescent Gardens
Belfast BT7 1NS

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